Software Engineer (Applications)

Virtasant is a leading cloud consulting services provider. We heavily focus on lift & shift cloud-native development cloud cost optimization and migration services. As a consulting company we often face the challenge of creating an engineering team in a matter of a week or two. To do that we have created a secondary support business that runs a talent network and provides staffing services.

Our client is a healthcare-focused company that builds software designed to make the process of expediting healthcare plans and approving procedures in record time so that both patients and doctors can focus on what's more important - health.

The position

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a high-caliber software engineering team that is growing quickly. You will build impactful healthcare technology on a modern technology stack by excelling in building new functionalities that support our client's teams to evolve product offerings and clinical intelligence.

It's a fully remote (of course!) full-time position for candidates in Africa or Eastern Europe who can either work on EST office hours (check what time it is in New York for instance and compare to your own to see what's the difference) or the candidate's local office hours. The candidate chooses.

Responsibilities

• Work on fast-paced collaborative agile teams to build and enhance a growing software platform together

• Responsible for end-to-end feature releases and platform enhancements

• Actively support the technical design process bringing your expertise and analysis to help make data-driven decisions

• Contribute heavily to feature design development testing and delivery of our client's cloud platform and web applications

• Support all parts of our client's platform from the database to the frontend

• Continuously discover understand and implement new technologies & services to maximize development efficiency

• Contribute to a culture committed to testing quality and attention to detail by supporting best practices such as writing and maintaining comprehensive test coverage

• Actively participate in ensuring our client maintains a disciplined approach to healthcare security

• Foster a community of mentorship for junior engineers on your team

Your background & requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science software engineering or equivalent experience

• Experience working on software development teams building and deploying full-stack web applications

• Passionate about building quality products and want to own product development end-to-end with excellent design and development standards

• Collaborate closely with teammates in product and design to build applications providing healthcare practitioners with the highest quality user experience

• Experience with common software development practices such as version control unit testing and CI/CD

• Team player interested in working in a fast-paced startup environment

• A minimum of 4 full years of experience in the software development lifecycle

• Experience with data pipelines or applications using Java or Groovy or Kotlin

• Experience building applications using React and TypeScript

• Hands-on experience leveraging test frameworks such as Cypress Jest Mocha JUnit or Cucumber

• Hands-on experience building applications on NoSQL technologies

• Hands-on in-depth experience building and maintaining services using either MongoDB or Elasticsearch or Kafka

• You can start as soon as possible ideally immediately

• You are located in either Africa or Eastern Europe

• You can work either ET (USA Eastern Time) office hours OR you can work your local office hours (it's up to you)

Nice to haves

• Prior experience in healthcare and life sciences

• Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards ( HL7 FHIR ) Experience with integration engines (like Mirth Connect Mulesoft etc.) for healthcare data exchange and transformation

• Experience with common software development practices such as version control unit testing and CI/CD (the team uses GitHub Actions )

Our recruitment process

• Recruiter interview (30 min)

• Technical interview (45 min)

• Take-home coding exam (30 to 45 minutes online timed)

• Hiring Manager (client) interview (30 min)

• Design & development competency check interview (about 45 minutes)

• Final (client) interview (30 min)

We strive to move efficiently from step to step so the recruitment process can be as fast as possible.

What we offer

• Totally remote full-time (40h/week)

• Monday to Friday either USA Eastern Time office hours or your local office hours (up to you)

• Long-term no end date independent contractor agreement

• Payment in USD by-weekly or monthly - your choice