Senior Backend Engineer (GrowthTech)

Honor exists to expand the world’s capacity to care.

We’re combining high tech with high-touch to deliver better home care for aging adults, better jobs for Care Professionals, and entirely new offerings to support the aging journey, at scale.

Founded in 2014, and now a Series E funded “Unicorn” valued at over $1B, Honor leads the world’s largest home care network with the most advanced care platform. Our August 2021 acquisition of Home Instead has created a global company that’s revolutionizing how society cares for older adults, their families, and Care Professionals.

Grow at Honor as part of a united team where everyone shows up authentically, shares ideas bravely, and solves complex problems!

About the work:

Growth Technology team to lead work on products that unlock business growth pathways and provide directed actions for our franchise network, in turn enabling them to deliver high-quality home care for a larger community.

The ideal candidate is motivated by delivering business value and thrives in environments where systems may vary in maturity. They are comfortable navigating and making thoughtful tradeoffs in technical decisions. You will join a small, talented team of passionate engineers, where your contributions will play a key role in shaping the future evolution of our home care network.

About you:

• You thrive in a diverse, cross-functional team, collaborating with design, product management, data, and care operations
• You enjoy building clean interfaces and high performance backend services
• You’ve built and maintained production-grade features in Python
• You know how to design relational database models, and have used a relational database at scale
• You’ve been a key contributor to the design and implementation of large, complex projects
• You are a strong communicator, both verbally and in writing. 
• You think about the customer and business impact of your work.
• You have experience building distributed systems and cloud services like AWS, GCP

Some, or all, of these are true:

• You work at or have worked at a technology startup, on a product team
• You are knowledgeable about microservice architecture and best practices
• You have experience leveraging observability and monitoring tools like DataDog
• You enjoy mentoring and spreading knowledge to other engineers

Tech you will use:

• Python
• Thrift
• MySQL
• AWS
• GitHub
• DataDog

Perks & benefits:

• Remote-first work model lets you work from anywhere in the U.S. and occasionally pop into a satellite office
• Competitive salary
• Equity in the company
• Comprehensive medical, mental health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• Employer-matched 401(k)
• Flexible PTO (manager approval)
• Diverse environment, with women making up more than half of the company and half of the management team
• Monthly stipend to offset home office expenses

We acknowledge that applying for a new job can be intimidating, and we want to encourage any applicant who may be qualified for the position to apply. 

Honor is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, political affiliation or belief.

What’s next?

Honor is remote-friendly! We're hiring across the U.S., with an entirely virtual interview and onboarding process. Most of our positions are remote/work from home and do not require permanent relocation. As conditions allow, we have office space for in-person collaboration in our San Francisco Bay Area, CA, and Austin, TX hubs. If you're looking for a great job that offers you the opportunity to work from home, we'd love to talk to you.

We value people! These four people-centric values guide the ways we work and the decisions we make every day.

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