Job Description

Responsibilities

• The Staff Software engineer will be working on the Zipnosis virtual care platform designing and building features in Ruby/Rails
• As part of the Product and Engineering team, Staff Engineers regularly work closely with our Principal Architect and the Product and Quality teams in the course of their duties
• They also provide consulting services to the Site Reliability, Integrations, Support, Customer Success, and Professional Services teams to help them understand the details of application feature setup & operation
• The software development team works using the Scrum process with a two week sprint cycle
• Staff engineers are expected to be a resource for the rest of the engineering team for our software development process, coding standards, core frameworks, and emerging technologies
• Design, develop, document, test, and debug new and existing features for Zipnosis' suite of applications
• Staff engineers will often be the lead engineer on a feature project, working with a principal engineer to guide development strategy
• Participate in, and sometimes lead, software design meetings and partner with the Product Team to analyze user needs and inform technical requirements
• Mentor other engineering colleagues in software engineering principles and techniques
• Perform code reviews of others' code

Requirements

• Have a deep understanding of and desire to teach others about the languages and technologies Zipnosis uses, including Ruby, Rails, Postgre
• SQL, Angular
• JS, RSpec, and others
• Collaborate with quality engineers to create and deliver test plans including automated user testing and integration specs to meet quality objectives
• You have 6+ years of experience working on MVC-based web applications, demonstrating increasing skill in tackling technical challenges
• A desire (and proven ability) to pick up new frameworks and concepts
• You have a deep understanding of, and willingness to teach, software development practices and concepts such as Object-oriented programming, Web application technologies, Web application security, and testing best practices
• Understanding of the analysis of programs such as space and time complexity
• You are highly capable of communicating technical concepts and ideas to other engineers and to non-engineering members of the Zipnosis team
• Able to discuss application features & use cases with end users and customer contacts
• You are excited to work in a fast-paced startup environment and work on a wide variety of tasks and projects
• You have experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Has a BA/BS Degree in computer science, information systems, or related field
• Equivalent experience of 2 to 4 additional years in the industry is also acceptable
• Has very strong technical aptitude and troubleshooting skills
• Is professional - unquestionable integrity, credibility and character with high moral and ethical behavior
• You have a background in software for healthcare, innovation projects, and/or hospital or health system environments