Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack – epocrates

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer for the athenahealth epocrates Platform used by 1 million+ users during the moment of care.  You will maintain and enhance a set of existing microservices and pipelines that are highly critical to drive User Engagement within epocrates.  You will also be responsible for leading engineering efforts, from design to execution, for new engagement features created by Product Management. Work will also include integration with commercial APIs, AI services, data lakes and interfacing with other groups within epocrates. You will write software for mostly backend (90%) and sometimes modify front end (Web/React) applications.

The Team: epocrates Engagement team tackles a variety of complex challenges every day to ensure that our entire suite of products and tools are constantly evolving and improving to meet our users' needs. The primary mission of the team is to continuously release software solutions that align with the Engagement and Growth strategy of our larger team.

epocrates Engineering tech stack includes native iOS and Android apps, Java, AWS, ECS, Kafka, Knowledge Graphs, SQL and non-SQL data stores, React, TypeScript, Python, Vector Search DB, Docker and Kubernetes, as well as a suite of in-house and third-party content publishing tools, an A/B experiment design platform and a commercial-advertising platform. Our multi-disciplinary team of SMEs -- front and backend engineers, product management veterans, medical doctors and PharmDs, visual designers, UX researchers, data experts, and more – all work together so to make it easy for Medical Professionals to make excellent clinical decisions for their patients using epocrates.

As an epocrates engineering team member, you value collaborative environments where you can challenge ideas and learn from your colleagues. You approach your work with insatiable curiosity and have a profound discomfort with unresolved issues.  You speak up and take action when you see something that isn't quite right - even if it isn't in your job description or your area of expertise. And you can't wait for the Shout Outs section of our team meetings to give praise to your talented colleagues.

Job Responsibilities

• Design and develop code on an Agile team of Engineers, Scrum Master, Product Owner, and an User Experience Designer.  

• Collaborate inclusively with cross-functional team members to promote productivity and effectiveness; take ownership of what you build and coordinate efforts across the teams to ensure the team completes its objectives.

• Develop knowledge to act as a domain expert, share business and technical insights within the broader engineering and product organization.

• Following through on commitments and owning outcomes.

• Mentoring and coaching of fellow team members.

• Understand and follow coding conventions, architectural patterns, and best practices.

• Participate in code reviews and perform peer code reviews to ensure quality standards.

• Proactively identify, propose, and justify new technologies that will benefit the software product.

• Work collaboratively on a cross-functional team with a wide range of experience levels e.g. ML Ops, Search, Engagement, Medical Informatics, Content Publishing, Platform, Legal & Security.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.

• 5+ years software engineering experience in reliable and resilient Microservice development and deployment.

• Knowledge of Unix/Linux, RESTful API, and AWS are very desirable. 

• Hands-on experience in Typescript and Node.JS.

• Proficient in Relational databases such as PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS.

• Proficient with No-SQL data store such as Redis, Elastic Cache, Document DB/Mongo.

• Working knowledge of React.Js for Web Development is a bonus.

• Working knowledge of Java and/or Spring Boot framework is a bonus.

• We work in Agile TDD environments, so any Agile or CI/CD experience is helpful.  

• Prior experience Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Terraform or similar technology is desirable.

• Passionate about learning and disseminating new knowledge.   

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