Early Career Software Engineer

At Alto, Engineers are both strategic thought leaders and hands-on builders. You venture beyond the traditional, inspiring new approaches to solve complex problems and drive innovation. We are looking for early-career engineers who are eager to learn and grow in a dynamic environment. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on high-impact projects, build and scale high-volume, high-throughput systems, and gain visibility into complex problems from day one.

As an Early Career Engineer at Alto, you will be able to:

• Contribute Quickly: From your first day, you’ll be contributing to projects that directly impact our customers and business. You’ll have the chance to take on meaningful work, implementing features, and solving real-world problems.
• Learn New Technologies: At Alto, we believe in continuous learning and growth. You’ll be exposed to a variety of technologies, frameworks, and tools, allowing you to broaden your technical skill set and stay ahead of the curve.
• Be Mentored by Senior Engineers: You’ll be paired with experienced engineers who will provide mentorship and guidance, helping you navigate complex technical challenges and develop best practices. Our team is committed to fostering your growth and helping you reach your full potential.
• Work on Innovative Projects: You’ll have the chance to work on projects that push the boundaries of what’s possible in healthcare technology. From optimizing our prescription delivery logistics to enhancing our patient experience platform, you’ll be involved in work that makes a tangible difference.
• Engage in Impactful Discussions: You’ll have the opportunity to participate in technical discussions, share your ideas, and learn from others. Your contributions will help shape the future of our technology and influence how we solve problems.

The ideal candidate will have strong technical judgment, a passion for learning, and the ability to deliver impact quickly with the guidance of their managers and collaboration with their team and beyond. Join us at Alto and be a part of a team that is revolutionizing the pharmacy industry.

Accelerate Your Career as You

• We’re looking for Backend and Fullstack Engineers who will make a positive impact for our customers by building innovative solutions, (atomic) services, and ergonomic monetizable APIs.
• Scope, design, build, test, and maintain large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle large volume transactions.
• Debug and solve critical production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
• Work with peers to help them grow, seek advice, and build influence to push innovative boundaries.
• Collaborate effectively with distributed team members, stakeholders across the company to build new features at large-scale, while improving internal engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
• Start to develop a point of view on the customer value and incremental delivery of features.
• Seek out areas of improvement continuously, leveraging technologies including AI/ML.

A Bit About You

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field of study.
• 1 to 2 years of academic experience paired with 1 to 2 years of internship or professional experience in computer science fundamentals, algorithms, data structures, software design patterns, and principles. Familiarity with basic cloud infrastructure (such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud) is a plus.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages, including but not limited to: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, Golang, Rust, Ruby, C#, C/C++, or PostgreSQL.
• Experience with developer productivity tools such as VS Code, Visual Studio, IntelliJ, Git, GitHub, or Slack.
• Strong teamwork and communication skills: Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and communicate effectively with peers, management, and product owners.
• Willingness to learn and grow: Demonstrated eagerness to learn new technologies, solve problems, and apply design patterns to both application and cloud solutions, with a focus on clean coding techniques and testability.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Internships or previous project experience working with engineering teams in an Agile environment.
• Knowledge and/or practical experience working with frameworks including, but not limited to: Angular, React, .Net, Spring Boot, Rails.
• Knowledge, practical experience, and/or certifications working with AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud.
• Experience and/or knowledge of the U.S. Healthcare system and the pharmaceutical supply chain.

Additional Physical Job Requirements

• Reading English, comprehending, and following simple oral and written instructions. 
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.  Assessing the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned.
• Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. 
• Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound. 
• Frequent repeating motions required to operate a computer or phone that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers.
• Environmental Conditions: occasional exposure to low temperatures or high temperatures, outdoor elements such as precipitation and wind, and noisy environments.
• Physical Activities: 
• Occasionally ascending or descending stairs, ramps and the like.
• Moving about to accomplish tasks and/or moving from one worksite to another. 
• Adjusting or moving objects up to 20 pounds in all directions. 
• Operating motor vehicles.
• Occasional sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing/driving/flying

Salary and Benefits

Salary Range: $104,000 - $130,000

Commission Eligible: No

Equity Eligible: Yes

Travel: Yes - Required up to 15% of the time for engineering on/off-sites.

Location Requirement: Employment at Alto is limited to individuals residing in the following states: California, Connecticut, Colorado, Florida, Nevada, Illinois, New York, Kansas, Texas, Maryland, Washington (WA), Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Wisconsin.

Employment Requirement: Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.  At this time, Alto is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa.

Benefits: Full-time: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), Group Life, AD&D, Employer paid STD/LTD, generous PTO and parental leave.  

Application deadline: September 18th, 2024

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