Node.js Backend Engineer
WELL is a fully integrated patient communication platform that enables enterprise health systems, private practices, and vendors to communicate with patients securely across any channel, including text messaging, email, telephone, and live-chat.
With WELL, patients receive all of their healthcare communication from one trusted source — their provider. The platform empowers service representatives to seamlessly converse with patients in real time, ensuring patients feel heard while driving staff efficiency and increased revenue.
Founded in 2015, WELL is based in Santa Barbara, California and was recently rated the category leader for Patient Engagement Software by G2 Crowd. WELL serves many of the country’s leading health systems and powers best-in-class experiences for more than 7,000 healthcare professionals and 5 million patients nationwide.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build new backend services using Typescript on Node.js, open source technology and tools
- Level up other engineers with your expertise, and learn from their expertise
- Collaborate with product in an agile environment to break down requirements, plan and estimate tasks
- Drive quality by writing effective unit, integration and functional tests for high availability systems and libraries.
- Create high availability and high throughput systems using Redis, Postgres, MongoDB, and AWS services
- Effectively collaborate with Product, QA, UX, Customer Success, and other internal groups (both technical and non-technical)
REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science
- 3+ years designing and implementing backend services and distributed systems in a professional environment
- Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals
- Strong grasp of JS fundamentals, ES6, Typescript, or strong experience in another modern language
- Proficiency in NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis) and SQL (PostgreSQL) database design
- Experienced working with asynchronous requests in large scale applications
- Commitment to testing best practices
BONUS
- Collaboration/contributions with the open source community
- Experience or education in building apps with Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Strong Leadership Skills
- Experience with
- Typescript
- Go
- Python
- Docker
- GraphQL
- Terraform
- AWS
- Microservice architecture
- Event sourced architecture
BENEFITS
- Full Health Benefits (Medical/Dental/Vision)
- Equity package
- Unlimited Vacation / PTO
- Located in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara
- Monthly commuter stipend
- Fantastic company culture
- Frequent happy hours and events
- Stocked kitchen
- Ergonomic desk setup
- Dog friendly office