Software Engineer, Internal Platform

The Role:

We’re looking for the next member of our platform team. Carrot’s product engineering teams have grown to the point where we’ve established an internal platform team to enable the rest of engineering with a productive developer experience. At Carrot, we have a duty to our members and customers to provide a stable, compliant, and performant platform and the internal platform engineer will help guide development of our services on our cloud infrastructure. We also provide the tools for our product engineering teams to operate and maintain applications.

The Team:

• We’re empowered to make local decisions, reducing the overhead of getting things done.
• We favor a Lean approach to our product development, following the parts of agile that work best for us.
• We welcome new technologies and are constantly self-evaluating our tools.
• We use weekly retrospectives and empowerment to help iterate on our team processes.
• We are a highly collaborative group promoting pair programming whenever possible.
• Platform is a specialized team that is empowered to make decisions and move at their own pace.
• The platform team is currently driven by our Internal Platform Lead Engineer, who has been fundamental in establishing our cloud infrastructure best practices.
• We’re expanding to a second engineer, so you’ll be pairing and reporting to the Internal Platform Lead Engineer for most of 2023.

Minimum Qualifications:

• You have 3+ years of experience of post grad software engineering or equivalent experience.
• You view software engineering as a craft and welcome the opportunity to share knowledge with fellow enthusiasts.
• You find learning new tech and patterns exciting and love experimenting.
• You understand the balancing game an engineer has to play weighing new feature development with technical debt.
• You take pride in our mission: fertility care for all.
• You have an interest in systems engineering and administration and feel comfortable advocating for disparate requirements across security, infrastructure, and product teams.
• You care deeply about DevEx, maximizing the time our engineers can spend writing product-focused code.

Preferred:

• You have 1 or more years of experience in a platform, infrastructure, cloud, or developer experience team.
• Experience and knowledge of cloud infrastructure best practices, particularly with an eye towards security and compliance.
• You love following industry tech trends; looking for an opportunity to find anything that can level-up our engineering team.

Our Tech Stack:

• Azure
• App Service PaaS, SQL Server, Application Gateway, Firewall, EventHub, Blob Storage
• AWS
• S3, CloudFront, API Gateway, Lambda, OpenSearch, Kinesis
• Languages & Frameworks
• .NET, Javascript, React
• Datastores
• Azure SQL Server, redis, DynamoDB

Compensation: 

Carrot offers a holistic Total Rewards package designed to support our employees in all aspects of their life inside and outside of work, including health and wellness benefits, retirement savings plans, short- and long-term incentives, parental leave, family-forming assistance, and a competitive compensation package. The expected base salary for this position will range from $125,000 - $175,000. Actual compensation may vary from posted base salary depending on your confirmed job-related skills and experience.