**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:** $140,000-155,000 depending on qualifications
**Description:** 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.
Well Dot focuses on Mobile, Health Care Information Technology, Health and
Wellness, and Digital Health. Their company has offices in New York City,
Boston, Minneapolis, and Chapel Hill. They have a mid-size team that's between
51-200 employees.
You can view their website at <https://www.well.co/>
