Senior Software Engineer, Backend

  • Full-time

Company Description

Come for the mission. Stay for the experience.

Let’s keep things simple: we are an unbelievably talented, hard-working, and compassionate team driving towards a mission that impacts every single one of us - even you! Healthcare benefits are complex, underutilized, and a mystery for most users. We’re removing that complexity.

Our industry-leading technology solution puts a simplified benefits experience in the hands of users, saving them time and money. Since the start of the pandemic, we’ve created a COVID-19 resource center, helped members find testing and care, and made it even simpler to get telemedicine and mental health support to employees.

HealthJoy has experienced explosive growth over the last few years: we've raised over $50M in funding, earned awards for Talent Culture’s Best HR Technology, Forbes 2021 Best Startup Employers and Built In Chicago’s Best Places to Work for the past three years. This year, we plan to continue down a path of high growth and high impact.

Job Description

Your impact.

We are looking for an ambitious senior engineer with a deep desire to learn and develop software that improves people’s lives.  If you’re passionate about developing the best software and collaborating with other developers to do so, then we want to hear from you!

You will enhance our SaaS solution, scale highly distributed systems, and continuously improve our engineering practices. You will get to work on the latest software practices and technologies such as microservices architecture, cloud design patterns, automated CI/CD pipeline, automated and orchestrated Dockerized delivery, and AWS platform.  Above all, your work will impact people’s interactions with the healthcare system.

  • Collaborate on architectural decisions and design best practices
  • Design and implement new features into the HealthJoy platform
  • Collaborate with engineering and product team members to improve quality and velocity
  • Creating a scalable solution to serve our growing user base

Qualifications

Your experience. 

  • 5+ years experience building and shipping scalable applications in Python, Go, Java, or Scala
  • Track record of developing on backend frameworks such as Asyncio, Aiohttp, Flask, SQLAlchemy, or equivalent
  • Experience in a CI/CD pipeline
  • Experience working in a microservices architecture
  • At ease in the AWS ecosystem
  • Experience participating in the architecture and design of new and existing products
  • An ability and eagerness to constantly learn and share knowledge with others
  • Insatiable curiosity to learn new software principles, technologies, and tools
  • Passionate in collaborating with developers and testers; distributed team experience will be a plus

Additional Information

Our rewards.

Work should be meaningful and rewarding.

HealthJoy offers a robust package of employee perks and benefits, including healthcare benefits, flexible PTO plan, 401k, pre-tax commuter benefits, parental leave, and HSA contribution match. We also enjoy each other's company over wellness activities, catered Friday lunches, happy hours, volunteer events in our local community, lunch and learns, and ‘friendship time’ pairings.

The best benefit of all? We use our own product. As an employee, you can rely on HealthJoy to feel confident about your own healthcare decisions and get the most out of your unique benefits plan.

HealthJoy is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local law.