About VuMedi:

VuMedi is a healthcare video education network used by over 600,000 providers around the world. VuMedi works with world renowned key opinion leaders, hospitals and societies to distribute timely and critical education in the ever changing health care world. Ultimately, our mission is to help clinicians make optimal patient care decisions through comprehensive video education. 

Why Join VuMedi right now?

• Make a major impact on doctor’s education in a company that is beloved by doctors and improves patient care every day
• Opportunity to build new products in a fast growing Silicon valley startup 
• Work with an amazing team of passionate engineers on modern tech stack (https://stackshare.io/vumedi/vumedi) which will further drive your career development
• Influence the direction of product development by collaborating closely with the product team

About the Opportunity:

As a digital healthcare business, engineering & data processing is at the core of our value proposition to our industry partners and we’re investing aggressively in our platform. We're hiring a Senior software engineer now to lead the development of our digital platform and products at this critical stage of VuMedi’s growth. 

In this role you’ll work with the engineering team in Zagreb and cooperate with our product team. This is a unique opportunity to work in a highly dynamic environment and help us build products that make a major impact to the global physician audience. Our digital platform is at the heart of our company and is the base on top of which the company is built. We work on a modern technology stack which is primarily based on Django as a web backend framework, deployed on AWS cloud platform solution. Other notable technologies include Postgres, Celery, Rabbit MQ, Redis, Elastic search, React and others.

What You’ll Do:

• Work closely with the engineering and product team on specifying and executing projects on our platform
• In the implementation process, guide more junior team members and clearly communicate any issues and/or roadblocks encountered
• Write automated tests that will cover the new functionality
• Peer-review other team member’s designs and pull requests
• Stay on top of technology trends, especially ones related to our stack. Evaluate and compare possible technology updates and/or new technologies to incorporate in our business. 
• Participate in roadmap discussions, influence what and how we will build. Suggest improvements for our platform and processes
• Collaborate and communicate with other business units on particular projects of interest
  

About You:

You have been in software engineering for 5+ years and have honed your craft, ideally using scripting languages. From this experience you have developed broad competencies, technical skills and you use frameworks to build out products and implement business processes. You have the drive to solve complex problems, and the ability to evaluate tradeoffs concerning limited resources. You have a passion for technology, data and problem solving. 

You Have:

• Experience solving difficult technical problems: Building out new complex features and refactoring existing functionality for extendibility
• Analytical ability: Our platform is complex and over the years of your experience you have tackled issues that required understanding of interoperability of several components: From ways overload on one part of the system influences others, logs correlation and analysis
• Communication skills: You can explain the trade offs when building complex solutions to non-technical colleagues. Ability to analyze scope vs. cost of requirements in order to suggest the best solution
• Mentorship: You’re able to mentor junior engineers, navigating them through the onboarding processes as well as through projects by helping them grow technically, gain visibility and communication skills within the company
  

Skills and Qualifications:

• Expert in at least one major web framework
• Advanced understanding of relational databases
• Familiarity with Linux operating systems
• BONUSES: Working experience of one major JavaScript framework; familiarity with AWS platform and it’s core features; devops knowledge