About the Role
Title: Staff Engineer
Location: Remote – United States
Job Description:
Company Description
Amwell digitally empowers payers, providers and innovators, enabling an ecosystem of care that spans across in-person, virtual and automated care.
Amwell provides a leading hybrid care enablement platform in the United States and globally, connecting and enabling providers, payers, patients, and innovators to deliver greater access to more affordable, higher quality care.
Amwell believes that hybrid care delivery will transform healthcare. The company offers a single, comprehensive platform to support all digital health needs from urgent to acute and post-acute care, as well as chronic care management and healthy living.
With nearly two decades of experience, Amwell powers the hybrid care of more than 55 health plans, which collectively represent more than 90 million covered lives, and many of the nation’s largest health systems, representing over 2,000 hospitals, have access to Amwell solutions.
Brief Overview:
We’re seeking a highly skilled Staff Software Engineer to play a key role in designing and implementing quality healthcare solutions and drive technical excellence. This role requires a hands-on leader who can design and implement scalable solutions, mentor engineers, and enforce best practices in software development. You’ll work closely with product managers, UX/UI designers, and engineers to build high-quality, innovative applications. The ideal candidate has a strong background in architecture, coding, and team leadership and is passionate about delivering robust, scalable solutions.
Core Responsibilities:
- Design and implement scalable, maintainable, and high-performance software solutions.
- Guide and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and engineers, to define and deliver project requirements.
- Drive best practices in coding, testing, and deployment to ensure high code quality and efficiency.
- Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and frameworks to improve development processes.
- Oversee system architecture decisions and ensure alignment with business objectives.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, ensuring system reliability and performance.
- Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience with Ruby, TypeScript or other high-level language
- 3+ years working with enterprise applications hosted in AWS, production application experience strongly preferred
- 3+ years leading a software development team in a senior engineer capacity
- Experience building in a microservice/DevOps environment.
- Experience with container-based deployments
- Experience building multiple levels of automated tests (unit, integration, end-to-end) to ensure high quality code delivery.
- Experience with PostgreSQL or DynamoDB
- Preferred: Experience supporting longer lived existing code bases
- Preferred: Experience troubleshooting application issues in a production environment and ability to respond to after-hours outages as required
- Nice to have: Experience with Terraform
- Healthcare experience strongly preferred
- Experience with Google CDR is a plus
- Excellent written and verbal communication, teamwork and leadership skills
- Experience with Agile methodology