Software Engineer, Developer Experience & Tooling

Are you passionate about empowering engineers to do their best work? Do you thrive on building tools & systems that streamline engineering workflows and amplify productivity? If so, read on!

Candid Health is hiring an experienced Software Engineer to focus specifically on Developer Experience, unlocking velocity for our developer workflows and acting as a force multiplier for our entire engineering organization.

In this role, you'll work hand-in-hand with incredibly capable engineers and operators who are intent on tackling some of the hardest and most meaningful problems in the US healthcare system. In close partnership with our product engineering teams, you will architect and build the tooling, libraries, and infrastructure that power all of the work we do, with the end goal of unblocking our developers and enabling them to ship faster.

Our ideal candidate is technically adept (5+ years of relevant industry experience), who can drive ambitious improvements to the developer experience, motivated by improving the day to day experience and efficiency of their fellow engineers.

• Improve product efficiency and stability by writing shared Python libraries for use by multiple product engineering teams.

• Optimize our Python test environments and accelerate engineering velocity.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify the needs of the organization, design solutions that are optimized for performance & scalability, and empower our engineers.

• Deliver enhanced observability to our stack, helping developers solve problems in our cloud environments.

• Implement robust continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines ensuring efficient application delivery and reduced downtimes.

• You come with 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with a focus on developer productivity.

• You have experience building tools, frameworks, and libraries that minimize developer toil and accelerate engineering velocity, driving impact at scale beyond your immediate team.

• You're comfortable writing code in Python, know your way around Python test environments, and know how to build complex systems optimized for performance and edge cases.

• You're not just technically sound; you enjoy collaborating closely with other engineers, are involved early and often in architecture discussions with product engineering teams, and know when to push back for the sake of the platform.

• You derive satisfaction from and are motivated by delivering a product that makes engineers' work easier and more effective.

• Continuous learning is your mantra. You stay up to date on the latest in the world of developer tooling and are eager to bring that knowledge on board.

• You're proactive, solution-driven, and always keen to optimize systems for performance, scalability, and security.

• You're a systems thinker who understands how things work holistically and can leverage cloud infrastructure concepts like eventing or webhooks to drive outcomes.

• Hands-on experience with our tech stack: Python, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Github, and Postgres. However, familiarity with parallel technologies like AWS is equally welcomed.

• You are willing to work hybrid or in-person in one of our office locations (NYC, SF, Menlo Park, Denver).

We’re fixing one of the most broken and costly pieces of the US healthcare system: medical billing.

Today, healthcare providers spend over $250B each year on administrative overhead just to get paid by insurance. Medical billing is expensive because it’s nuanced and hard - maybe ~100x harder than credit card payment processing - and because it’s traditionally done by armies of humans who track and manage complex rules and processes specific to individual insurance companies with little or no supporting software. We’re rethinking medical billing from the ground up, building software backed by best-in-class data science (and, soon, a dash of machine learning) to automate much of this complexity so healthcare providers can get paid dramatically more easily and inexpensively.

We were in the Y Combinator W20 batch and have since been well funded by a world-class group of funds (8VC, First Round Capital, BoxGroup) + angel investors. We're now helping our customers treat opioid addiction, provide holistic care for women, lose weight, increase access to mental health care, and much more. This is such important and gratifying work; we can't wait for you to join our team and help support some of the most important innovation happening in healthcare today!

We spend at least as much time with our coworkers as we do with our closest friends + family - if we intend to do the most important + challenging work of our lives, it’s important that these folks energize us, support us, inspire us, and push us to do our best work. This is what you can expect of your teammates at Candid (in no particular order):

• We put our customers first

• We take care of each other and ourselves

• We anchor on outcomes and work relentlessly and creatively to achieve them

• We collectively prioritize building a diverse and inclusive workspace

• We believe humility is our greatest strength

• We are candid, kind, and committed

• We strive to be the most prepared person in the room

• We are truth seekers

The estimated starting annual salary range for this position is $148,000 to $220,000 USD. The listed range is a guideline from Pave data, and the actual base salary may be modified based on factors including job-related skills, experience/qualifications, interview performance, market data, etc. Total compensation for this position may also include equity, sales incentives (for sales roles), and employee benefits. Given Candid Health’s funding and size, we heavily value the potential upside from equity in our compensation package. Further note that Candid Health has minimal hierarchy and titles, but has broad ranges of experience represented within roles.

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