We are looking for a fully remote Backend Engineer to contribute to our mission to improve our patients' health and their lives, with the development of our web applications.

 

Who you are

• You’re a software engineer with at least 5 years commercial experience
• You have a genuine enthusiasm for software engineering and take no greater pleasure than finding the right solution to the problem at hand and making practical tradeoffs
• You are excited about contributing to a product that can drive positive change to the lives of millions of people around the world
• You have strong ownership mindset - “you build it, you run it”
• You’re eager to continuously learn, grow and step out of your comfort zone
• The idea of working in a successful, high growth startup in a fast paced role excites you

 

What you will do

Develop scalable & reliable systems

• Develop core functionality for our own customer facing and internal products, systems and data platforms, and e-commerce capabilities using modern frameworks
• Develop extensible platforms and architectures that make it possible to quickly and efficiently launch new products and lines of business
• Develop and maintain integrations with third party systems
• Develop the APIs powering the web & mobile platforms for our product portfolio

Drive impact in a team environment

• You’ll work with other software engineers, designers, QAs, product managers, business stakeholders and domain experts
• You’ll drive impact and own your work end2end - from scoping & planning, architectural design decisions, implementation and testing, to production deployment and operations.

 

Job requirements

• At least 5 years of commercial experience as a software engineer or equivalent
• Familiarity with scalable cloud architectures, design patterns and best practices
• Practical experience with CI/CD and IaC (Infrastructure-as-code)
• Readiness to quickly learn PHP (our main BE language for the moment)
• Experience with databases & data management practices - relational databases & search engines
• Experience with TDD and testable code - unit / integration / performance testing
• Great verbal and written communication skills and the ability to explain complex ideas in a simple way to non-engineering teammates
• Ability to zoom in and out - be comfortable with getting into the relevant low-level details while also making the optimal tradeoffs for achieving the “big picture” goals.

 

Experience you may have

• A degree in CS or equivalent is a plus
• Practical experience with building scalable & highly reliable cloud systems that support product used by millions of users around the world 24/7
• Familiarity with modern JS frameworks
• Experience working in cross functional teams
• An eye for user behaviour and design and attention to detail

 

Benefits

• Generous stock option plan
• 25 days holidays and generous parental leave & flexible working policies
• Annual company retreat
• Join in the early stages of one of the most promising start-ups in the health & wellness space