Overview

Frontend Staff Software Engineer, Platform

Role Overview

Frontend Staff Software Engineer, Platform will lead the creation of a Frontend Platform for Wellframe’s API first, cloud native microservices based architecture to power our industry-leading digital care management platform. They will work closely with other engineers, product managers and data scientists. Frontend Staff Software Engineer – Platform will report to a Director of Engineering. Success in this role will depend upon a consistent ability to reduce the complexity of projects, lead broad architectural frontend based work to unlock new capabilities for the business, and improve the productivity of the engineering team.

With Wellframe , we reimagine healthcare relationships through a new approach that uses high-tech to deliver the high-touch support people need, when and where they need it. We call it Digital Health Management. Our comprehensive suite of Digital Health Management solutions for care… management, advocacy, and navigation help organizations forge more meaningful connections with members, across their healthcare journey. Wellframe was founded to counter a pressing industry problem: the healthcare system has struggled to find ways to support people in between care settings, at scale. We believe health plans are in the best position to advocate for their members as they navigate their health and care, but know that technology alone can’t help us achieve this ambition. That’s why our team of physicians, clinicians, public health experts, data scientists, engineers, and healthcare industry experts ensure our patented technology works in service of the person-to-person connections that make healthcare work best.The complete suite of solutions from HealthEdge delivers a digital foundation for payers specifically designed to fuel a digital transformation, reduce costs, and improve both clinical outcomes and the member experience.

Areas of Responsibility:
• Architect and build a great frontend platform
• Build reusable widgets that are easily pluggable into a customer’s web dashboard
• Work on core frontend tooling, monitoring tools and infrastructure for setting a good foundation for frontend platform
• Identify common patterns and design frameworks to build reusable components
• Collaborate with the QA team to implement a frontend testing infrastructure and establish good automated testing practices
• Implement frameworks and processes to improve developer productivity and reduce pain points for frontend developers
• Optimize frontend performance by improving load times, efficiency and application speed
• Establish good security practices to prevent vulnerabilities and develop highly compliant frontend software
• Implement accessibility best practices to ensure the frontend components are usable by individuals with disabilities
• Build a set of best practices around frontend architecture and processes.
• Contribute to product roadmap
• Work closely with the product team to understand the business problems and help in scoping the user stories.
• Collaborate with designers to develop a consistent set of frontend components
• Collaborate with engineering managers and technical program managers to provide good project estimates for on time delivery of projects
• Lead projects end to end which include technical design, development, testing and on time delivery of projects and improvements with highest quality.
• Debug and fix our most challenging production issues by participating in on-call rotations to ensure our systems have exemplary uptime and reliability.
• Identify and lead process and technology improvement by developing a 6-12 month roadmap for implementing technical and process improvements.
• Work closely with software engineers and interns to guide their technical and career growth.

Education, Experience, & Skills Required:
• S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or closely related field of study.
• Advanced working knowledge of Javascript ecosystem and Typescript
• Expertise in creating reusable widgets that can be deployed across multiple platforms is a must
• Expert in ReactJS and experienced with other JavaScript frameworks.
• Experience building micro frontends is a plus
• Significant experience building and optimizing reusable web component libraries with an excellent understanding of CSS
• At least 6 years full-stack web development experience.
• At least 6 years experience building SaaS or cloud-based commercial software products.
• Experience with backend frameworks such as Spring or Ruby on Rails with a microservices architecture is preferred.
• Proficient with a modern scripting language such as Python.
• Makes good trade-offs for core design and API decisions.
• Excellent communicator, comfortable explaining technical problems and plans in person and in writing to both a technical and a non technical audience.
• Values the difference between good code and correct code, and cares about effective testing.
• Demonstrable history of technical mentorship.
• Experience leading complex initiatives from technical design to delivery.
• Thrives on diverse technical challenges – our system integrates a wide variety of healthcare and other technologies.
• Passionate about leveraging their technical skills to help improve patient care.
• Works effectively in a fast-paced, agile startup environment, and finds fulfillment delivering innovative solutions.

Behaviors & Traits Required:
• Effective communication skills
• Accepts feedback graciously
• Strives not to commit the same mistake twice
• Stays up-to-date on industry best practices and new technologies

HealthEdge commits to building an environment and culture that supports the diverse representation of our teams. We aspire to have an inclusive workplace. We aspire to be a place where all employees have the opportunity to belong, make an impact and deliver excellent software and services to our customers.

Geographic Responsibility: While HealthEdge is located in Burlington, MA you may live anywhere in the U.S.

Type of Employment: Full-time, permanent

Travel%:

FLSA Classification (USA Only): Exempt

Budget/Revenue Responsibility:

Work Environment: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job:
• The employee is occasionally required to move around the office. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Work across multiple time zones in a hybrid or remote work environment.
• Long periods of time sitting and/or standing in front of a computer using video technology.
• May require travel dependent on company needs.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the job being performed by the individual(s) assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and skills required. HealthEdge reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and to assign other duties as necessary. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Candidates may be required to go through a pre-employment criminal background check.

HealthEdge is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to workforce diversity and actively encourage all qualified persons to seek employment with us, including, but not limited to, racial and ethnic minorities, women, veterans and persons with disabilities.

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Job Locations US-Remote

ID 2023-2264

Category Engineering

Position Type Full-Time

HealthEdge provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws