Honor exists to expand the world’s capacity to care.
We’re combining high tech with high-touch to deliver better home care for aging adults, better jobs for Care Professionals, and entirely new offerings to support the aging journey, at scale.
Founded in 2014, and now a Series E funded “Unicorn” valued at over $1B, Honor leads the world’s largest home care network with the most advanced care platform. Our August 2021 acquisition of Home Instead has created a global company that’s revolutionizing how society cares for older adults, their families, and Care Professionals.
Grow at Honor as part of a united team where everyone shows up authentically, shares ideas bravely, and solves complex problems!
We are looking for a seasoned with experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable distributed systems & infrastructure. The platform engineering team builds and manages the infrastructure & core services that powers Honor’s Care Platform. Our charter is focused on providing foundational building blocks to enable the entire engineering organization to deliver reliably and efficiently. We also own build and deployment pipelines of our services, maintenance of various environments and their supporting infrastructure and serve as consultants to build the right abstractions for patterns of problems. This is a highly technical, hands-on role that requires a wide and deep experience in managing applications and infrastructure across cloud services. It requires deep practical knowledge of cloud platforms, advanced software design patterns & architecture, operations and automation, and containerization technologies like Kubernetes. The ideal candidate is driven by providing business value, is comfortable working with systems at varying levels of maturity, and appreciates making nuanced tradeoffs. You will be joining a small team of highly-skilled, enthusiastic, and passionate engineers with an opportunity to create an outsized impact in contributing to the future evolution of Honor’s Care Platform.
- You thrive in a foundational role supporting diverse, cross-functional teams as your customers, possess exceptional problem solving and analytical skills.
- At least 6 years of professional experience in a platform engineering team within a product-centric company.
- Design and implement foundational patterns and libraries for applications, across a range of technologies from API services to event processing
- Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools to ensure reproducible and scalable environment setups.
- Design and implement infrastructure for applications hosted on AWS, supporting event-driven systems, containerized services on Kubernetes, and serverless functions.
- Develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, ArgoCD.
- Have experience automating the lifecycle management of code from development through production, including code promotion and configuration management.
- Instrument observability through tools such as CloudWatch and DataDog to monitor and optimize application performance across multiple environments.
- Scale infrastructure to meet increasing demand while managing cost effectively
- Have experience defining, instrumenting and measuring standards for quality, security, scalability, and availability with a focus on delivering business value.
- Have passion for delivering turn-key developer experience for local development
- Keen interest in developing talent through mentorship
- Strong written and verbal communication, tailored to a variety of audiences
- A strategic thinker with a product-first approach and customer obsession.
- You have experience working with an RPC architecture
- You work at or have worked at a technology startup and familiar with the challenges of evolving platform maturity
- You have first hand experience navigating multiple distributed architecture patterns
- Remote-first work model lets you work from anywhere in the U.S. and occasionally pop into a satellite office
- Competitive salary
- Equity in the company
- Comprehensive medical, mental health, dental, vision, and life insurance
- Employer-matched 401(k)
- Flexible PTO (manager approval)
- Diverse environment, with women making up more than half of the company and half of the management team
- Monthly stipend to offset home office expenses
We acknowledge that applying for a new job can be intimidating, and we want to encourage any applicant who may be qualified for the position to apply.
Honor is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, political affiliation or belief.
Hiring Salary Range
$191,000—$225,000 USD
Honor is remote friendly! We're hiring across the U.S., with an entirely virtual interview and onboarding process. Most of our positions are remote/work from home and do not require permanent relocation. As conditions allow, we have office space for in-person collaboration in our San Francisco Bay Area, CA, Austin, TX, and Omaha, NE hubs. If you're looking for a great job that offers you the opportunity to work from home, we'd love to talk to you.
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What We Do
Honor is revolutionizing how society cares for older adults, their families, and Care Professionals. Honor leads the world’s largest home care network with the most advanced care platform. This combination of human touch and technology can adapt and be tailored across our multiple home care networks. And it positions Honor to rapidly scale quality care.
Why Work With Us
Working for Honor means being part of a united team where everyone shows up authentically, shares ideas bravely, and solves complex problems. A diverse environment, with women making up more than 50% of the company and exactly 50% of the management team. We provide regular performance reviews, L&D opportunities, town halls,ERGs, & internal mobility
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