Backend Software Engineer

As a Backend Software Engineer at Regard, you’ll be involved in all stages of the product development and deployment lifecycle: participate in idea generation, planning, design, prototyping, execution, deployment, and iteration of new and existing features. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering, design, and product colleagues to bring new features and products to life. 

Your primary objective will be to develop high-quality software solutions that meet user needs and align with the organization’s business goals. This will involve analyzing requirements, designing robust architectures, writing efficient code, and conducting thorough testing.

As a Backend Software Engineer, you will have the responsibility to contribute to high priority projects and continuous improvement initiatives. By delivering innovative and reliable software, you will contribute to the success of our organization and make a meaningful impact in the industry.

About Us

Our mission is to bring world-class healthcare to everyone. Regard is the world’s first comprehensive, automated diagnosis tool. Regard streamlines clinical and revenue cycle efforts to dramatically improve hospital finances, patient safety, and physician happiness. We are excited by challenges, mission-oriented work, and meaningful relationships. We work closely with some of the top health systems in the country and are leading the change that healthcare - one of the largest and most inefficient industries in the world - needs. We want you to join us.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product and design team members to best design medium to large projects balancing speed to market, user experience, business goals, and technical architecture quality
• Operate independently in building new features and capabilities with support from senior engineers
• Maintain and improve the quality of the codebase and tooling in your area of responsibility by proactive fixes and improvements and through identifying and proposing projects to improve the overall backend codebase
• Participate in operational activities supporting including on-call, monitoring, and production support
• Contribute as necessary across the stack (front end, infrastructure, AWS, etc)

Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (Python preferred)
• Able to participate in on-call operational support for their areas of responsibility
• Able to travel up to 4 weeks a year for company co-working and/or retreat weeks

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with k8s, AWS services (serverless, etc), OpenAI services
• Experience working on a mature enterprise SaaS technology product
• Exposure to startup and/or high growth environments or experience working on an enterprise SaaS technology product
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Hybrid Work | Location | Work Authorization

• For this role, Regard is currently only considering candidates who are authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship, and are within the New York City metro area
• We expect our Engineers to be in the office 1-2 days per week. We may request more frequent in-office work during the onboarding period.
• We will provide relocation assistance to anyone who does not already reside in the NYC metro area
• We prefer hiring people within commuting distance of our NYC office because we value getting together in person regularly
• For those who enjoy working from our Manhattan office on a more regular basis, we offer catered lunches and other fun perks
• Additionally, hybrid employees have the flexibility to work from locations outside of their home office from up to 6 weeks per year

Comp | Perks | Benefits

• Eligible for equity + performance bonuses
• 99% employer paid health benefits (Medical, Dental, and Vision) + One Medical subscription
• 18 PTO days/yr + 1 week holiday break
• Annual $750 learning & development stipend
• Company-sponsored team retreat + social events
• A sabbatical program

Our goal at Regard is to provide and maintain a work environment that fosters mutual respect, professionalism and cooperation. Regard is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, alienage or citizenship status, age, disability or handicap, sex, gender identity, marital status, familial status, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. We celebrate diversity and are proud of our supportive, inclusive workplace.