Senior Software Engineer, Platform
About The Position
Zus is a shared health data platform designed to accelerate healthcare data interoperability by providing easy-to-use patient data via API, embedded components, and direct EHR integrations. Founded in 2021 by Jonathan Bush, co-founder and former CEO of athenahealth, Zus partners with HIEs and other data networks to aggregate patient clinical history and then translates that history into user-friendly information at the point of care. Zus's mission is to catalyze healthcare's greatest inventors by maximizing the value of patient insights - so that they can build up, not around. Weâre looking for an experienced Senior Engineer to join our Platform team that delivers the services that provide the data to applications. The ideal candidate will be excited to take on the challenge of processing, storing and delivering the entire health records of millions of patients, providing low latency and high-availability for all operations. You are creative, innovative and love to run experiments to explore the paths to evolve and develop our platform as we scale. The Platform team is at the heart of everything at Zus. You will work on data services that operate on large scale data using a variety of AWS services (ECS Fargate, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, etc). You will also work on RESTful services that are used both internally and externally. Go is our language of choice and the team is responsible for deploying, maintaining, and operating its pipelines and services.
Requirements
- Are scrappy and you move fast
- Have experience with operationally stable and cost efficient data services
- Enjoy owning your work and seeing it deploy safely in production
- Are jazzed to build backend services in Go
- Have some experience with at least one of the following: deployment technologies (Github actions, CodeDeploy, CircleCI), cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Are excited to ~ finally! ~ enable a true digital revolution in healthcare
- Thrive amid the changing landscape of a growing and evolving startup
- Enjoy collaboration and solving unique problems
- Are in the Boston metro and excited to collaborate in person on a hybrid schedule, or are remote (EST/CST) but willing to travel for in person collaboration occasionally
Nice To Haves
- Experienced in building and running large-scale systems in the cloud using Go
- Experienced in using Postgres and its search capabilities
- Knowledgeable about application security
- Experienced in working with healthcare data and APIs
- Familiar with the FHIR and/or TEFCA standards
Responsibilities
- Build and operate data services driving our applications and APIs
- Collaborate with team members and across Engineering to iteratively prototype and develop new functionality
- Provide technical leadership, contributing to the architecture and design of the teams systems
- Coach others to become better engineers
- Partner with product managers and other Zusers
Benefits
- Competitive compensation that reflects the value you bring to the team a combination of cash and equity
- Robust benefits that include health insurance, wellness benefits, 401k with a match, unlimited PTO
- Opportunity to work alongside a passionate team that is determined to help change the world (and have fun doing it)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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