Who we are:
Vincere Health is one of the fastest growing HealthTech companies in the New England startup ecosystem. We are a behavioral health platform that pays smokers to quit and will support a variety of other chronic care issues in the next 18-24 months. We were the winners of the 2020 Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge, a long-time fixture of the Harvard Innovation Lab community, and recently a Techstars portfolio company who participated in their United Healthcare Accelerator.
We need help with:
We are looking for a backend engineer willing to roll-up their sleeves, roll with the punches, be ok with a dynamic (and sometimes unpredictable) startup environment where you will have a direct and immediate impact on the direction of the company, the product and actually improving the lives of populations who need it the most.
This position is predominantly backend with the option to be full-stack. We use NodeJS(Typescript), Python, Javascript/React, Postgres, Redis, SQS/SNS/S3, AWS ECS, Kubernetes, Serverless functions, AWS Cloud Platform.
What you will do:
Architecture design: You will be working with fellow engineers to lead the backend microservices design, AWS Cloud Architecture, raise our engineering bar by sharing your expertise and best practices with the team, and improving the code quality. e.g, recently we architected a queue-based scaleable distributed system for incentivizing participants based on healthy activities, designed a payment processing gateway, and designed a scalable system to analyze images for facial recognition.
B2B integrations with partners: You will be working on our API Gateway to build fault-tolerant scalable APIs to integrate with different health systems, EMR’s, research institutes, and insurance companies.
Oversee security and system reliability: Work on securing our infrastructure in the AWS cloud, following HIPAA compliance best practices, and sharing your experience and best security practices with the team e.g, recently our team was involved in cloud security audits with our B2B partners and SOC2 compliance.
Work on our comprehensive data pipeline: You will be working on our comprehensive data pipeline to ingest participant's data in a fault-tolerant manner, building a data lake for storage, and coming with approaches to build serverless ETL pipelines for analyzing the data.
We are looking for someone with:
- At-least 4-5+ years of experience in building highly available production services, including deployment automation, infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, and scaling.
- Prior knowledge of architecting applications in commercial cloud preferably AWS.
- Experience with cloud security components e.g, network segregation, encryption, and IAM.
- Experience working with Node.js (TypeScript) and Python.
- Experience with building ETL processes and data pipelines.
- Good understanding of containers, build systems, and infrastructure automation
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining RESTful APIs
- Experience with unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
- Good problem-solving skills and knowledge of computer science fundamentals/algorithms.
*Bonus Points For: *
- Prior experience with security, SOC2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, etc.
- You've mentored other developers and interns.
- Prior experience as a Software Engineer at an early-stage startup
- Ability to work in the US (open to remote work with a preference for an individual based in the Boston area!)
What we offer:
Good compensation package and equity.
Flexible schedules. Employees at all levels have reasonable discretion over their own time.
Direct and immediate impact on the direction of the company, the product and actually improving the lives of populations who need it the most.
If you are ready to join a mission-driven, compassionate, and talented team, we'd love to meet you! At Vincere Health, we are building something brand new: accessible, empathic care for the ones who need it the most. We actively, and warmly, welcome applicants from a wealth of different backgrounds. Quit your boring corporate job. Join us.
Please feel free to learn more about us @ www.vincere.health or email trevor@vincere.health or jake@vincere.health