Cloud Engineer

Purpose
To design, build, enhance and scale our microservices based cloud platform. The Vital Connect platform streams and stores medical telemetry simultaneously from thousands of wearable sensors, enabling medical professionals to view and analyze the data in order to make patient health care decisions based on the data.


We’re looking for people interested in building products and tools; comfortable in dealing with lots of moving pieces. You’ll be building customer-facing products that will drive direct business impact and shape our long-term technical vision with a high-quality bar. You'll have the opportunity to learn and push the frontier of providing the most widely adopted and technologically advanced healthcare platform in the world.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement features to improve our customer’s experiences.
• Work side-by-side with user facing teams (Sales, Support) to best understand the needs of our customers.
• Create trustworthy user experiences by building user interfaces that are simple, easy to comprehend, backed by performant, scalable and reliable backend systems.
• Own problems end-to-end, thinking through everything from user experience, data models, scalability, and operability.
• Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the codebases and processes you encounter.
• Identify areas of improvement and advocate for front-end and back-end best practices
• Help turn our vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter by working with other engineers and senior leadership

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree, preferably in CS, or equivalent experience.
• 3 - 8 years of cloud-oriented software development experience
• At least 3 years of experience in software engineering using Ruby on Rail
• Experience building modern systems using microservices and tools like Angular, ES6, Typescript, and RxJS.
• Experience building and designing scalable backend systems using SQL or NoSQL databases.
• Enjoying being a generalist, working on both the frontend, backend, and everything in between to tackle problems and delight customers.
• Taking pride in working on projects to successful completion, involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.
• Putting yourself in the shoes of your users, and creating an intuitive, delightful experience.
• Holding yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems.
• Stitching many different services and processes together, even if you have not worked with them before.
• Writing high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.

What we value:

• Advanced API development experience, Service Oriented Architecture experience, and solid understanding of microservices. Experience with building, and maintaining highly available and scalable web services in a Service Oriented or Microservices architecture is a must. 
• Experience in the following database and streaming technologies: MongoDB, MySQL, Kafka
• Experience in operating a complex AWS deployment using Docker and Kubernetes. Experience with Docker-based CI-CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment) is a must
• Taking pride in working on projects to successful completion, involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.
• Holding yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems.
• Stitching many different services and processes together, even if you have not worked with them before. We strive to use the best technology for the problem at hand and are looking for folks who are motivated to learn on the job.
• Writing high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.

Nice to haves: 

• Experience with load testing, profiling, performance and scalability analysis
• Experience with Internet security and Privacy. We run a HIPAA-compliant Cloud.
• Experience working in the healthcare medical device/equipment field and working for an FDA-regulated company.
• Gathering and refining specifications and requirements based on technical needs.
• Creating top-notch software documentation (such as mobile application requirements, design documents, and user guides).
• Ability to prioritize, multi-task and perform effectively under pressure
• Experience in successful startups and willingness to wear many hats

Engineering at VitalConnect:

• We work in an environment where it matters to make the right design decisions the first time, and as a result, take on less technical debt than other companies.
• Product is a highly collaborative initiative across multiple teams. Engineers are expected to understand and have product input, designing systems towards our long-term product vision.
• We'd rather have one strong engineer, instead of having 5 average engineers. Our customers are fine with fewer features, but are not ok with broken features.
• We believe in small, accountable and autonomous teams of amazing people, eager to learn, teach and constantly improve our way of working.
• People have a strong sense of ownership and accountability for what they’re building. What we build today will be the foundation for dozens of other systems in the future.

We are very frank on discussing technical matters. If one disagrees with how things are being done, we encourage them to speak up and help us get to the truth faster

The estimated hiring salary range base salary for this position is $165,000 to $185,000.^* The actual salary will be based on a variety of job-related factors, including geography, skills, education and experience. The range is a good faith estimate and may be modified in the future. This role is also eligible for a range of benefits including medical, dental and 401Kretirement plan.