Staff Software Engineer - US Remote

Pager Health is seeking a Staff Engineer who excels in understanding business goals through insightful questioning. This role involves designing sophisticated healthcare applications, mentoring senior engineers, and collaborating closely with Product and Design teams. Your work will be crucial in delivering cutting-edge healthcare applications that enhance the digital experience for patients and streamline collaboration and integration for enterprise users within the healthcare system.

Responsibilities:

• System Design & Architecture: Lead the design and architecture of complex systems, ensuring scalability and performance. You will play a key role in shaping the future of our next gen products in health and wellbeing, delivering new and innovative experiences to our growing customer base
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the engineering team, especially to senior engineers, promoting best practices and high coding standards.
• Code Development: Write, review, and maintain code in a variety of languages and frameworks, such as TypeScript, Next.js, Nest, React, ensuring high quality and adherence to company standards.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineering team leaders to define technical requirements for complex, multi-projects and ensure alignment with business goals.
• Project Management: Manage and prioritize multiple projects and tasks, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality software. Engage in all stages of the software development lifecycle, from project planning, design, to coding, testing, deployment, and production monitoring.
• Problem Solving: Identify and resolve complex technical issues, often involving debugging, performance tuning, and optimizing code in order to minimize customer disruption and enhance overall system performance
• Continuous Improvement: Advocate for and implement continuous improvement processes within the team, including code reviews, automated testing, internal tooling, and CI/CD practices. Provide a vision for improving developer experience, simplifying the complexity of systems, and removing tech debt.
• Infrastructure Management: Lead the full stack product engineering team to own the development and maintenance of the infrastructure required to support software applications, including cloud services in GCP, front-end and back-end services, databases, and deployment pipelines.
• Agile Methodologies: Actively participate in Agile development processes, including refinement of the team’s Product Backlog, estimating work and other Agile ceremonies. As a strategic voice to the team, provide active input on how to streamline software development processes in order to improve developer velocity and decrease engineering overhead.
• Innovation & Research: Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies, fostering a culture of learning innovation within the team and company.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in designing, building, and deploying large, scalable distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• System Design & Architecture: Proven ability to lead the design and architecture of complex systems, ensuring scalability and performance.
• Technical Leadership: Ability to provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, particularly senior engineers, promoting best practices and high coding standards.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Strong capability to work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineering team leaders to define technical requirements and ensure alignment with business goals.
• Strong understanding of relational databases, including query optimization and data modeling principles.
• Excellent communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Independence and Curiosity: Highly independent and curious, demonstrating efficiency in utilizing available resources and thinking creatively to find solutions.
• Expertise in at least one framework, such as TypeScript, Next.js, Nest, or React.
• Practical experience with cloud platforms like AWS or GCP, including containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. Experience in developing infrastructure as code to deploy software applications, cloud services, front-end and back-end services, databases, and ci/cd pipelines.
• Schedule Flexibility: Ability to work on-call rotation as incident escalation SME on weekend and holiday hours, at a cadence around once every 2-3 months.