Specialist Application Engineer

As a Specialist Application Engineer on the 'Portals' team, you will be working full-stack to build our user-facing web applications. Our software helps to fix the broken payment experience in the healthcare industry by providing clarity, transparency, and flexibility. We look for people who care deeply about how users interact with their software and how teams communicate to collectively get products shipped.

This position will also manage projects building out internal tooling to help teams across Waystar work more effectively and efficiently. We're looking for someone who thinks about software at the 'architecture' level and has a passion for enhancing development processes and creating technical pathways for us to upgrade existing technologies.

Do you love full stack web development? Do you want to work on applications used by millions of people? Do you get excited by building tools that improve the operations of an entire company?

What you'll be doing:

We're offering the opportunity to:

• Lead the evaluation / design / implementation of new technologies as needed to complete strategic product initiatives
• Define / educate team on new technologies and/or standards that are introduced to the team
• Build, test, and support new features/bug fixes in both new and existing applications
• Employ web-technologies, agile development methodologies, and existing healthcare technologies to create solutions that fulfill a direct user need
• Utilize enterprise level software designs to deliver highly effective solutions
• Work in a highly collaborative environment with diverse experiences and problem solving techniques
• Seek out inefficiencies in process and actively propose/lead changes to improve engineering process
• Hold team members accountable for agreed upon goals - make sure peers follow process and focus on the right tasks to complete goals
• Provide feedback/recommendations to team in order to improve the team's effectiveness (through retros)

What we're looking for:

Some experience that might help for the opportunity:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or have equivalent experience
• 5+ years of professional experience in web-based software development with Object Oriented languages (e.g. PHP, Ruby, Python, Java, etc.)
• Experience with full stack web application frameworks (LAMP)
• Experience in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and/or MVC Frameworks
• NGINX
• Traditional RDBMS databases (MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, etc.)
• Git Version Control
• Unit and integration testing methodologies
• Strong critical thinking and problem solving skills
• Experience in an Agile development environment
• Experience with transactional/batch processing is preferred
• Any experience in upgrading AngularJS to a modern framework is preferred

Waystar provides cloud-based technology that simplifies and unifies healthcare payments. Together, our technology, data and client support streamline workflows and improve financials for our clients, so that they can focus on their patients. We are deeply committed to living out our organizational values: honesty; kindness; passion; curiosity; fanatical focus; best work, always; making it happen; and joyful, optimistic and fun.

Waystar products have won Best in KLAS® or Category Leader every year since 2010 and earned multiple #1 rankings from Black Book™ surveys since 2012. The Waystar platform supports more than 500,000 providers, 1,000 health systems and hospitals, and 5,000 payers and health plans. For more information, visit waystar.com or follow @Waystar on Twitter.