Release Engineer

About Us 

At SimplePractice, our team is dedicated to improving the health and wellness industry by building a suite of innovative solutions for practitioners and their clients. Our product supports practitioners on their clinical journey to becoming licensed, helps them manage their business and practice once they’re up and running, and enables new clients to discover and interact with practitioners. Taking a practitioner-first approach in everything we do makes it possible for health and wellness practitioners to devote more time to their clients while they use SimplePractice to start, grow, and maintain a successful private practice.

The Role

SimplePractice is seeking a Release Engineer to join the Release engineering team to assist in coordinating, planning, scheduling, and successfully delivering features in all of our environments. 

A Release Engineer's responsibility is to own the release management lifecycle including scheduling and coordinating releases across the company for multiple applications as well as response to production monitoring and managing rollbacks.

Whenever necessary, he/she will provide the tools and services needed to help product engineering teams manage and deploy code into production. The goal of the engineer is to handle consistent, on-time delivery of high quality releases. 

Responsibilities

• Help scheduling, managing and coordinating releases across multiple applications within various different teams and projects
• Manage and mitigate risks and resolve issues regarding release quality and schedule
• Continuously monitor projects and provide reports about their progress
• Monitoring the release process and collecting feedback from the different teams as well as customers for review
• Making improvements on a regular basis to the release process

Desired Skills & Experience

• 3+ years of work experience
• Comfortable working on the command line in linux environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication & collaboration skills
• Comfortable working with remote teams, using tools such as Pivotal Tracker, GitHub, Asana, Slack, and Zoom
• Working knowledge of static sites, and general knowledge of web applications.
• Working knowledge of Linux environments
• Knowledge of Docker/containerization
• Basic knowledge of scripting languages (Ruby/Javascript/Python)
• Application performance monitoring (Datadog)
• Some Knowledge to write basic SQL and knowledge of relational databases (MySQL)

Bonus Points

• Team player
• Ruby on Rails
• Semaphore, Github Action
• Percy
• Ansible
• AWS infrastructure
• Kubernetes

Benefits

We offer a competitive benefits program including:

• Medical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance
• 401(k) plan with company match & employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Flexible Time Off (FTO), wellbeing days, paid holidays, and summer Fridays
• Mental health resources
• Paid parental leave & Backup Care
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

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