Sr Software Engineer

About Accolade

Those who work at Accolade share a vision: every person living their healthiest life. In support of that vision, we want to transform how your employees use their benefits and healthcare resources. Whether you’re a small team or a large organization, we’re here to make personalized healthcare advocacy accessible and to drastically improve the experience your employees have with healthcare and benefits.

Position

As a Senior Software Engineer joining Breaking Bad team, you will join a small and experienced team on a mission of delivering a better healthcare experience to our members in US health-care market (almost 2Ms members).

You will be in charge of designing and building microservices to manage a crucial domain of our organization, you will work in AWS using serverless products such as Lambda and Batch and you will code in Python and Java, you will not work on legacy system.

Our Projects manage the domain of Practitioners (our Accolade’s colleagues supporting customers via phone or messages) inside Accolade Cloud Platform, we own the creation, maintenance and termination of practitioners, we have microservices to manage their schedules, their statuses and their statistics. We also integrate our Platform with two external software one for HR data and one used to monitor the activities of our Health Assistants.

The most recent project is a forecasting tool to predict the number of calls and messages we will receive.

A day in the Life…

• Working with a small agile team to design and develop serverless applications and microservices meeting the team’s quality standards
• Implementing new features on the back-end side of our Accolade Cloud Platform
• Working with new cloud and cutting-edge technologies (AWS, Elastic, NewRelic, Python, Java) on existing and new projects
• Contribute to best practices and help guide the future of our application technologies
• Mentoring younger colleagues
• Working with great engineers
• Continuously improving our user experience (automating manual work, improve reliability)
• Be part of Continuous delivery mission where your change is delivered to production in minutes (after all automated tests are successfully executed)
• Working on own product and being proud of it (we are not a software factory)
• Working on a mission-critical project that has a profile in company

A look outside the day to day:

• You will collaborate with other excellent developers to proofs of concept to push innovation
• You will contribute to raising the bar of quality of our offering
• You will share with the team/office/community your passions and personal projects

Your qualification

• Strong knowledge of Python 3 (5+ years of experience)
• Good knowledge of Java (3+ years of experience)
• Good Experience with building serverless applications (AWS is better, not required and Serverless Application Model)
• Knowledge of database systems (relational or NoSQL)
• Knowledge of CI/CD processes
• Experience or interest in working with front-end languages (TypeScript, JavaScript, React)

What we offer

• Fun, transparent and informal working culture
• Interesting and challenging projects
• Great work-life balance and possibility to work from home
• Work in an international environment and opportunities to grow
• Work with modern technologies like AWS
• Regular company events
• Participation in various conferences and continuous learning
• Competitive salary and benefits
• Support during your relocation process