Software Engineer, Platform

Allara is on a mission to transform the health of millions of women by bringing effective, solutions-driven hormonal healthcare into every decade of adult life. Our convenient care management platform offers a mix of medical and lifestyle interventions to help patients achieve their health goals. Allara is led by an experienced women’s healthcare founder and backed by leading venture capital firms, including Google Ventures (GV).

About the Role:

As a critical member of our small engineering team, you’ll have a major impact on the patient experience, developer experience, and engineering culture. You’ll help design and build the technology that powers our user-centric care platform. The ideal candidate is passionate about solving real health challenges through technology. They are well versed in building functionality from scratch and taking proofs of concept to production and scale. The right fit will have the engineering experience to build and iterate quickly, is comfortable with infrastructure and developer tools, and is able to work well with product and stakeholders across the business.

This role is based in New York City, with in-person work at least two times per week.

What you’ll do:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, performant, and reliable systems that you and other technical users will leverage. 
• Collaborate with product teammates to design and implement patient and provider-facing features for our care delivery platform.
• Drive continuous improvement in our engineering practices, including code quality, deployment processes, and incident response.
• Test and learn as quickly while laying the framework to build a more scalable product over time.
• Investigate platform bugs and incidents.

Required Qualifications:

• A strong individual contributor with at least 4 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Excellent collaborator and communicator, with experience working on cross-functional teams.
• Strong background in AWS ECS, Docker, and Infrastructure as code.
• Expertise with modern web development frameworks: Express and/or NestJS
• Experience with Node.js and TypeScript preferred
• Experience with on-call rotations in mission-critical environments
• Familiar with security best practices, ideally in regulated industries such as healthcare, financial services, or similar
• Experience with end-to-end testing
• Experience with Monitoring and Alerting tools such as DataDog or New Relic

Preferred Qualifications:
Meeting all preferred qualifications is not a requirement for candidacy. We value diverse experiences and perspectives and encourage all interested applicants to apply, even if they do not fulfill every preferred qualification.

• Experience working with GraphQL
• Experience with Pulumi and/or Terraform
• Experience with third party integrations in a regulated environment, such as healthcare or finance
• DevOps or SRE experience
• Comfortable driving the adoption of DevOps and/or SRE principles and practices.

Details:

• Estimated Salary: $150,000 - $170,000 annual
• Medical/Dental/Vision
• 401(k)
• Unlimited PTO

At Allara, we believe in celebrating everything that makes us human and are proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace. We embrace diversity and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better we can serve our members. We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against candidates or patients based on race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.