Software Engineer - I

Who we are

We’re a passionate engineering, platform, and operations team, developing and supporting ground-breaking products. Together, we’ll build for the future, creating more opportunities for wellness businesses around the world to help their customers lead full, healthy lives. We push ourselves and our company to always strive for this higher purpose, recognizing the power in working together toward the same goal. We believe in building a diverse company where everyone feels safe bringing their authentic selves to work. And we believe that the secret to success is our people.  Join the team, and let’s see what we can accomplish together!  

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Tier 1 College 
• 3-5 years of industry experience from Tier 1 company in programming web applications, mobile and/or large-scale enterprise products
• Widely recognized within the organization as a leader in their discipline
• Deep knowledge of the Ruby language, related frameworks(Rails), and the Ruby toolchain
• Experience with RESTful APIs and third-party libraries/integrations
• Strong proficiency in Javascript frameworks such as React or Vue
• Good knowledge of Typescript
• Experience in Next.js is a plus
• Deep knowledge of the Microsoft Development Stack
• Expertise with SDLC and programming design patterns
• Skillful with Agile methodology and DevOps principles
• Skillful with CI/CD practices and automated testing patterns
• Skillful at mentoring software engineers on complex technical issues
• Skillful at quickly mastering new technologies
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized deployments
• Experience with SQL and relational databases as well as NoSQL and document databases
• Familiar with AWS services including EKS, EC2, Elasti Cache, DynamoDb, SNS, SQS
• Skillful at reviewing new feature impact on an application and recognizing potential risks
• Capable of technically leading development teams responsible for multiple mission critical systems
• Uses time effectively and efficiently
• Detailed oriented, professional and possesses a positive work attitude
• Communicate professionally both verbally and in writing

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Develop, test, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure web applications using Ruby on Rails and React.
• Be a technical lead throughout the development lifecycle, from scoping, planning, conception, design, implementation, and testing, to documentation, delivery, and maintenance
• Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes, investigating problem areas, following the software development lifecycle
• Conducts systems analysis and makes recommendations to improve the system to achieve an outcome
• Implements best practices based on company-wide engineering policies and standards
• Identifies new industry wide best practices and brings them to their teams
• Contributes meaningfully to companywide engineering policies and standards
• Promotes internal best practices and coding conventions to write and execute tests for your own code, including creating comprehensive automated tests
• Designs and supports mission critical services with an eye towards reliability, security, and stability
• Occasional on-call rotation duty to respond to after-hours system incidents
• Requests constructive feedback for designs early in the process
• Communicates successfully with large teams and many personalities
• Provides mentorship for Software Engineers and participates in interview panels to hire new Software Engineers
• Assists in removing obstacles for the team to yield successful sprints
• Performs peer code reviews to ensure quality of the codebase
• Ability to delegate work to junior engineers
• Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art development tools, programming techniques, and computing equipment
• Works effectively with multiple projects and departments
• All other duties as assigned

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS:
• This role regularly utilizes a computer, including the use of a monitor, mouse and keyboard.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderately quiet.

SCOPE OF SUPERVISION/AUTHORITY:
Duties are performed under limited supervision. Often responsible for planning and organizing their own work, which may or may not be directly related to general business operations of the company or its customers. Will receive training and guidance from manager as needed. Individual contributors may be required to regularly exercise discretion and independent judgment with respect to matters of significance depending on the nature of the position. No direct management responsibility. The incumbent or successful candidate must meet the job requirements above in order to perform the essential functions of this position and achieve the outcomes/results indicated in this job description. The Company will make every effort to make reasonable accommodations upon request to enable qualified individuals with known disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job. I acknowledge receipt of this job description. Nothing contained in this job description is intended to nor does it create a contract of employment for any specific duration