Senior Backend Engineer
About the company:
Octave’s mission is to create a new standard for mental healthcare delivery, one that is accessible to more people and sustainable for providers. We are broadening access to high quality mental health services that are measurement-based and insurance funded. Now more than ever, we are looking to serve communities dealing with the rising public health challenge of addressing mental health needs. Octave is VC-backed and was founded in 2018 with footprints in New York and California, as well as virtually nationwide. We are expanding our beautiful practices throughout New York and California, offering telehealth and also clinic-based services.
About the role:
Octave is looking for a senior backend engineer (5+ years of experience) to help us develop the systems and tools needed to support clients seeking care, providers offering care, and the operational team and infrastructure infrastructure to support the two. We are a small but growing team who work primarily remotely, using Next.js (React), Django on PostgreSQL, gRPC and GraphQL to bring everything together.
Qualifications:
Must have:
- Minimum 5+ years of experience building robust and scalable backend applications
- Experience developing and deploying Python applications into production
- Familiarity with modern web technologies (such as JSON, HTTP2, WebSockets, HTML, JavaScript, CSS)
- Experience with relational database systems like PostgreSQL or MySQL
- Experience integrating and synchronizing data with third party APIs
- A preference for writing quality code with automated testing and leaving the code base better than how you found it
- Experience with continuously delivery and troubleshooting production code
- Comfortable communicating and collaborating with engineers, clinical, and operations staff to solve open-ended problems
- Interest in doing mission-oriented work especially in the healthcare space
- Must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship now or anytime in the future
Nice to have:
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code & continuous deployment in production
- Experience with the Django web framework
- Experience with gRPC and Protobuf
- Experience working with healthcare, healthcare technology, and clinical staff, or other regulated industries
“Nice to have” really means “nice to have”. It’s completely possible that you don’t have any of these and are still a great fit for the team.
Application Instructions:
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