Senior Full-Stack Engineer

New York, NY / Full-time

Relevant is looking for a senior full-stack engineer to join us as employee number five. This role involves developing features for both our healthcare analytics platform and our care management suite, which is used by thousands of healthcare providers every day to assist patients with complex needs.

We’re looking for someone who wants to help shape our product, tech stack, and company for the next several years. Responsibilities will vary—partly according to your particular strengths and inclinations—but the range of possible tasks is wide, and includes:

• Product design and UX
• Writing client-side code with React and d3
• Building out our Rails apps and APIs
• Hacking on our in-browser ETL toolchain, which extracts data from customer systems
• Improving our devops infrastructure and internal tooling
• Data analysis, including finding problems in our data sets that are tractable for machine learning
• A variety of scrappy startup responsibilities, which we all share, from answering help-desk tickets to working on customer implementations to writing blog posts
• Thinking through patterns and best practices related to all of the above

Key requirements

Above all, we’re looking for general smarts, passion for the craft of programming, and excellent communication skills. We’re fun and easy to collaborate with, and hope you are too! Here are some specific requirements to help see if we’re a good fit:

• 5+ years professional software development experience.
  In the future, we expect to be able to train and mentor junior devs, including recent bootcamp graduates (so if that’s you, keep us on your radar), but for this hire we’re looking for someone who has professional experience working on at least one large code base, over the course of several years, with more than half a dozen collaborators.

• Expert fluency in at least one server-side language.
  We mostly use Ruby for server-side work, so if you’re a Rubyist that’s a plus. But mostly we’re looking for a demonstrated ability to master a language, whether it’s C++, Python, Rust, Lisp, or something else.

• 3+ years experience writing production JavaScript code.
  We don’t care if you already know React specifically, but it’s a good sign if you’re deeply familiar with at least one of the modern JS frameworks, and find React and the virtual DOM intellectually interesting.

• Commitment to test-driven development and modern software development practices.
  We’re not Agile or Scrum or Extreme purists, but we draw lessons from all of these philosophies, and we take tests seriously. How do we keep our test suite healthy over time? Are we mocking too much? What’s the best way to reduce the amount of CSS in our integration tests? We’re looking for folks who read widely, think critically, and can bring a thoughtful perspective on these kinds of issues.

Working at Relevant

• Join a small team of smart, fun, mission-driven people
• Competitive salary and benefits
• Meaningful stock options
• Generous paid time off
• Work from home one day a week, if desired

Mission and Culture

We are nerds who love solving intricate technical problems, but we’re ultimately a mission-driven organization: building tools to improve patient care for under-served populations is what keeps us focused and motivated. We also get a kick out of bringing great software to places where it’s not typically found.

We’re building a diverse company and are committed to changing the ratio. Applicants who identify with groups that are under-represented in tech are strongly encouraged to apply.

How to Apply

Send an email to jobs@relevant.healthcare with the subject line “Full-Stack Engineer.” When responding, please attach a resume and include something that will help us get to know you professionally (a GitHub profile, Twitter handle, blog, etc), and also include the phrase “tiger koala” somewhere in your response.