Senior Software Engineer (Backend Javascript/Node JS)

Company: The mission of Well (https://https://www.well.co/) is to transform healthcare through our unique impact on our members' health and happiness. We do this through our differentiated consumer experience and world-class data and analytics engine that drive engagement and behavior change. Our product — a consumer health engagement platform — integrates concierge services, behavioral health, telemedicine, care management and wellness services to drive sustained engagement, lower costs and improve the health of members. In addition to our product, we know our team makes us unique. We’re a highly diverse and engaged organization whose employees are passionate about the mission of the company and whose management is passionate about the employees.  We promote an employee- and member-centric culture with generous benefits, which you can learn more about here: https://www.well.co/careers.

Position Title: Senior Software Engineer (Backend Javascript/NodeJS)

Reporting To: Engineering Manager

Location: Chapel Hill, NC; Minneapolis, MN; Boston, MA (Newton Office); New York, NY

Compensation: $135,000-155,000 (Senior Software Engineer 1 or Senior Software Engineer 2), depending on qualifications, plus bonus and benefits 

Position Summary: Upon joining our team in Chapel Hill, you’ll help lead the development of a world-class technology platform at the heart of our engagement and behavior change platform. You’ll get to work with a diverse group of backend and mobile developers, data scientists and product managers to design, implement and govern product features that reach the hands of thousands of users. We expect you will deliver solutions that are holistically correct, efficient, secure and maintainable. Ownership, self-motivation, teamwork, and experience working in a fast-paced agile environment are highly desired.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own substantial workstreams, including both new user-facing features and improvements on our existing services ecosystem
• Collaborate with a team of mobile, backend and data science practitioners to create and deliver a seamless, tailored experience for our users
• Contribute substantially to platform architectural decisions and enhance our team’s ability to make correct decisions that stand the test of time
• Help build and maintain internal administrative applications that support core functioning of our technology platform
• Help us achieve operational excellence in the software development by participating in and leading code reviews, quality assurance, and production monitoring
• Take personal responsibility for keeping all Well systems and data, including sensitive member data, secure and safe, according to Well data and security policies and HIPAA guidelines

Preferred Qualifications:

• Thought leader in principled delivery of software utilizing Node.js, Javascript, React, Typescript - ideally with a broad area of interest spanning other similar/promising programming languages. 
• Strong grasp of engineering principles, a variety of common tools, patterns, algorithms/libraries and use cases, key trade-offs and systems design
• Strong intuition for both micro and macro level decision-making in software development
• Strong coding capabilities, demonstrated ability to resolve complex technical challenges
• Willingness to learn new patterns, languages, technologies and methodologies, aligning both with our Engineering culture and continuously evolving technology environment.
• Good understanding of both microservices and monolith patterns with insight into choices and tradeoffs involved
• Experience with modern cloud platforms; AWS, GCP, Azure
• Good understanding of the HTTP stack and REST APIs
• Good understanding of databases and their tradeoffs
• Knowledge or experience with backend for front end design, especially in support of Android and iOS mobile applications
• Experience in Healthcare contexts is considered a plus but not a necessity
• Good understanding of security principles in software development broadly and as specifically applied to consumer-facing applications
• Bachelor's Degree and background in a related field such as Computer Science, Engineering or a quantitative discipline with strong demonstrated practical experience. 

Additional Job Information

Well is on a mission to redefine the healthcare experience. This is an opportunity to re-shape healthcare for America. We are developing solutions to improve the quality and affordability of healthcare.  We welcome team members who are passionate about that mission. 

We embrace diversity and are committed to building an inclusive team. All qualified applicants will be eagerly considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.