Backend Software Engineer

Our team is committed to enhancing physician and patient quality of life through Elation, a SaaS cloud-based clinical platform. Since inception, we've been focused on building a delightful world-class experience that empowers physicians to deliver phenomenal care to patients.

Elation is looking for a Backend focused Software Engineer with a deep understanding of APIs, systems and performance. Elation's development team is a small group of experienced and talented engineers who are passionate about our product and users. As a member of the team you'll be working as a member of one of our product teams; building systems and owning impact.

We value diversity - great talent and ideas can come from everywhere! We've built a development team that is distributed across North America, coming from a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. We strongly encourage women and people from under-represented communities to apply. For this particular role we prefer candidates in North American timezones.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to improve the core services and APIs central to our platform
• Ship improvements and new features
• Communicate across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams to understand our users
• Support team members through code review and thoughtful collaboration
• Improve our engineering standards and processes

Experience & Skills

• 5+ years experience in software development roles
• Proficiency in Python, experience with Django
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Experience working with SQL and relational databases
• Empathy for our users and colleagues
• Curiosity about our users and healthcare delivery
• Experience troubleshooting challenging issues
• Growth mindset and a passion for learning and improvement

Experience delivering SaaS products and working with AWS or other cloud hosting providers a plus

Elation welcomes individuals from all backgrounds and walks of life. Elation is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and is dedicated to creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment.

We are committed to equal opportunity for all employees and applicants, and value individuals with diverse perspectives including, but not limited to: race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status.

Elation also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. We firmly believe a strong culture that supports a diverse and inclusive workforce allows us to achieve Elation's mission of helping independent primary care thrive.

As a healthcare technology company whose mission is to support IPCPs and frontline healthcare workers, and as a tight-knit company where we have the utmost concern and care for our team members, Elation Health has adopted a Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Policy.

This policy will comply with all applicable laws and is based on guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local health authorities.

We will not require any candidates to be vaccinated in order to interview for our open positions, but all new hires at Elation will be required to share a copy of their vaccination certification or present documentation to request an exemption.

In compliance with the EEOC, any team member in need of an exemption from this policy due to a medical reason, or because of a sincerely held religious belief must provide People Ops (hr@elationhealth.com) with appropriate documentation. For a medical exemption, we require a doctor's note, and for a religious exemption, we require a note from the team member outlining the request.