Fullstack Engineer (Backend Focus)-Remote

About Decent

Decent envisions a world where everyone has the freedom to do the work they want without sacrificing access to affordable and comprehensive healthcare. We offer more affordable health insurance options for start-up to midsize businesses by aligning incentives to improve health, reduce costs, and put members at the center of their care. We offer an amazing compensation package consisting of a combination of competitive base salary + stock options, medical and dental benefits, career advancement opportunities in a small but quickly growing company and unlimited PTO.   We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Job Summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Fullstack Software Developer. This role will use their technical skills and experience to deliver product features and business solutions while working product and operations teams. The ideal candidate has a passion for developing and delivering solutions that impact an organization in exponential ways.

What You Will Be Doing

• Participating in the earliest stages of planning with product and operations teams, requirements gathering and creation of minimum viable project solutions.
• Contribute to the technical architecture and implementation of our web application for customers to manage their health insurance. This includes developing, testing and deploying parts of the stack, including partner-facing APIs.
• Collaborate with the product team to understand customer requirements and translate them into software designs which result in timely releases, while building the long-term product vision.
• Collaborate with other development team members to identify or define appropriate APIs for consumption by the application you are building.
• Integrate software systems with internal and 3rd party APIs
• Own monitoring, alarming, analytics, and reporting on all services you build, ensuring high performance and responsiveness.
• Coach and mentor other members of the development team, growing the collective knowledge and expertise of the group.

What We’re Looking For

• 4+ years of software development experience with programming languages such as JavaScript, Java, or Python.
• Demonstrable, in-depth knowledge and experience with Javascript/TypeScript, Node.js, and React or other similar frameworks. (send us a link to your GitHub)
• Is passionate about software quality, improving the development process, and building highly scalable systems
• Thrives in a collaborative, cross-functional environment
• Enjoys architecting elegant solutions to technical and customer problems
• Stays up-to-date with modern technologies and practices
• Sees themselves as a “force multiplier”, not only delivering rock-solid solutions themselves but also being a mentor to other engineers
• Understanding of web and mobile technologies, cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
• A quality advocate who understands the importance of issues prevention at the earliest stages and uses appropriate methods for testing
• Curious, continually learning, and eager to share your newfound knowledge with others

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Understanding of Zero Trust architecture and how to build secure software to eliminate user data breaches.
• Experience with Docker, Google Cloud Platform, especially as it relates to improving developer experience (e.g., project configuration, dockerizing dependencies, mocking dependent services)
• Demonstrated leadership abilities in an engineering environment, including raising the bar for operational excellence.