The Software Engineer II will develop scalable solutions, collaborate with teams to execute technical roadmaps, and optimize data handling in healthcare applications.
As a Software Engineer II at Aledade, we maintain, improve, and expand our web application and data pipelines. We're looking for engineers who know that writing new code is not always the solution to a problem, but when technological changes are needed they create secure, maintainable, performant, correct, scalable, and stable solutions to the complex and unique challenges in our corner of the healthcare industry.
They embrace strategies that minimize risk, leaning towards observability, alerting, metrics, high test coverage, and frequent releases that incrementally build value.
Primary Duties:
- Develop and implement scalable and performant solutions.
- Partner, as a peer, with Engineering Managers, Product Managers, and stakeholders throughout Aledade to develop and execute technical roadmaps using Agile processes.
Minimum Qualifications:
- BS/BTech (or higher) in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
- 2+ years experience as an engineer building full-stack web applications as part of a cross-functional team.
- 2+ years of experience working with SQL or other database querying language on large multi-table data sets.
Preferred KSA’s:
- Experience in designing, building and optimizing data pipelines and ETL processes.
- Proficiency in working with large datasets and knowledge of data storage technologies.
- Experience working with data ingestion systems and optimizing performance for handling large-scale data processing and analysis.
- In-depth knowledge of database systems.
- Familiarity with database replication, sharding and other techniques for scalability and high availability of databases.
- Experience in performance monitoring and optimization of data systems and infrastructure.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience building continuous integration and continuous deployment(CI/CD) pipelines.
- Experience with security and systems that handle sensitive data.
Physical Requirements:
- Sitting for prolonged periods of time. Extensive use of computers and keyboard. Occasional walking and lifting may be required.
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