Software Engineer
Remote
Description

At Springbuk, we’re a team of highly driven, team-oriented self-starters. We work hard and win big while crafting a high-energy, inspiring company culture. We aspire to challenge old ways of thinking and impact real change in the healthcare industry. Our team is on a mission to prevent disease with data. Springbuk is a nationwide company with employees who care about empowering smarter healthcare decision-making. 


A Software Engineer at Springbuk provides technical leadership on their team and across the company by building great software and being an example for other engineers. You will be contributing code daily, but you will also work with stakeholders to shape the product, and you will work with other top engineers to shape the platform.  


Here’s what you will do:

  • Design and build software to ensure data flowing through the Springbuk health intelligence data pipeline is of the highest quality
  • Keep the code healthy, fix bugs, debug and troubleshoot
  • Write automated unit and integration tests
  • Participate in all scrum ceremonies with your team
  • Collaborate with your team to break down, refine, and estimate projects
  • Review code of other engineers and provide constructive feedback
  • Collaborate with technical leaders to improve the architecture of the data pipeline
  • Collaborate with engineering leadership to improve process and encourage healthy habits
  • Mentor other engineers and share your wisdom
  • Work in our stack of Python, Ruby, and SQL running on Amazon Web Services, Postgres, and Snowflake
Requirements

A successful candidate will have:

  • 5 years of experience in professional software development
  • Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills
  • Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical teammates
  • Demonstrated healthy professional engineering habits, such as considering performance, security, logging, documentation, extensibility and other non-functional requirements
  • Strong understanding of working with data and relational databases
  • Experience working on an agile team: short iterations, issue tracking, version control, QA, etc.
  • Readiness to work in a continuous delivery environment
  • Interest or experience using tools, algorithms, and statistical methods to analyze data
  • Readiness to work at a dynamic scale-up company with a SaaS product

Here’s what your team will do:

Our Data Quality team is responsible for building and supporting tools that ensure that the data making its way through the data pipeline that imports, normalizes and enriches healthcare data and insights for our customers and partners is accurate and error-free.

  • Analyze requirements and design technical solutions to customer problems
  • Use Python, Ruby, and SQL to implement business logic in our internal, Rails-based data management application
  • Collaborate with various teams to implement new features in the data pipeline
  • Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of internal processes
  • Investigate, diagnose, and fix problems in production

Here’s how you will get ramped up for success:

  • 30 days - Learn our product, our architecture, our processes and standards, and make meaningful contributions.
  • 60 days - Learn the roadmap for your team and help design and plan upcoming projects.
  • 90 days - Take the lead on a project and start technical mentorship of other team members.

We are unable to consider non-US based remote employees for this position at this time.



Being You at Springbuk:

Springbuk’s goal is to attract and retain diverse talent and provide an inclusive environment for all where everyone’s voice is heard and all employees feel accepted. Springbuk is an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex (including pregnancy), gender (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender or transsexual individual), age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.