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Backend Engineer

Walrus Health

Backend Engineer

San Francisco, CA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    ABOUT WALRUS

    Meds need an upgrade. Two-thirds of Americans are taking Rx meds on a regular basis and pharmacists are the best source of support, but people don't have a good way to partner with them. Meet Walrus, everyone's personal pharmacist.

    Walrus sells into employer and medicare health plans, giving everyone on the plan a personal pharmacist to help them make informed decisions about their meds. Our pharmacists navigate members through all the complexities of managing their conditions and they work with physicians to keep the whole care team in sync. Through Walrus, members manage their health, save money and improve their quality-of-life.

    WHAT YOU'LL DO

    We are looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to build infrastructure, apis, and workflows to power our pharmacist, member, and administrative applications. This role includes developing and improving frameworks across our backend services. As one of the startups earliest engineering hires, youll play a large role in shaping the engineering culture, process, and roadmap.

    Operating at an early-stage startup, the ideal candidate will feel comfortable collaborating cross-functionally with Product, Design, and Operations to devise and execute engineering solutions in an ambiguous environment with a high degree of autonomy.

    Responsibilities

    • Collaborate with UI and application developers to shape and define API contracts
    • Design, develop, test, refactor and scale backend APIs that power our suite of internal and external applications
    • Design, build and maintain the core infrastructure used by our engineering teams
    • Work with technologies such as Docker, PostgresSQL, Redis, Python, Pandas, Docker, Chef, and Vagrant . We are looking for good engineers regardless of experience with any of these specific technologies.
    • Create reusable and maintainable systems and abstractions.
    • Help to maintain a high technical bar, participating in code reviews and design discussions.
    • Participate in recruiting, interviewing, hiring, on-boarding, and mentoring of new team members

    REQUIREMENTS

    • 5+ years of experience, with a Bachelors Degree (in CS) or equivalent
    • Familiarity with relational database systems like Postgres or MySQL.
    • Well versed with AWS services (IAM, KSM, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, Cloud Formation)
    • Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining complex asynchronous backend processing jobs
    • Track record of contributing to scalable architecture/design of existing and new systems that maintain 24/7 availability
    • Dedication to code quality, automation and operational excellence: unit/integration tests, scripts, workflows.
    • Ability to balance business needs and make pragmatic decisions
    • Bonus: Prior high-growth startup experience
    • Bonus: Prior experience in pharmaceuticals or health care
    • Bonus: Experience with HIPAA, PCI, or other high security environments.

    BENEFITS

    • Equity
    • Health Insurance
    • Remote Position