Staff Backend Engineer

This position is on our Staffing team. We are responsible for connecting Honors care professionals with our clients who need care, in a way that meets the needs of both groups and leads to long-lasting, healthy relationships.  Staffing is a cornerstone of Honors business, and has a real, direct impact on the wellbeing of our caregivers, clients and their families.  

Engineers on our team work closely with our teammates in Design, Data Science, and Product, in order to drive positive outcomes in a complex system.  Collaboration is one of our core values, and we thrive on taking diverse perspectives and ideas, and using them to learn and drive positive outcomes.

Our engineering approach is also collaborative; several of us come from an Extreme Programming (XP) background, and we value pair programming, test-driven development, and automation as core practices.  We believe that quality and speed are not tradeoffs, but that they enable one another, and we value and emphasize learning as part of our day-to-day work.

About you:

First and foremost, these arent requirements!  If this sounds interesting to you, we want to talk.  Think of this as our best guess of what we hope a new teammate might bring, not as a hard-and-fast list of boxes to check.

• You enjoy building frontend applications, backend services, and connecting all the layers in between.
• You enjoy mentoring, and helping the team grow and learn.
• You are happy working in a co-creation environment, and have some experience with pair or ensemble (mob) programming.
• You are a strong communicator, both verbally and in writing.
• You have some perspective and experience with building successful distributed teams (several of us were remote long before COVID!)
• You like to work closely with other disciplines, and look for low-lift ways to validate hypotheses.
• You view code as a means to an end, but understand the importance of code quality and technical excellence.
• You have experience working in a you build it, you run it environment, and enjoy end-to-end ownership of the systems you build.
• You are comfortable participating in an on-call rotation (about 1 week per quarter, with our dedicated tier-1 support team handling most issues during business hours).

We also pay attention and study lots of leaders in engineering, product and design.  If youre into the work of folks like Eli Goldratt, Nicole Forsren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim, Marty Cagan, or John Cutler, we will have a lot to talk about.  Maybe there are other folks who have influenced your thinking; wed love to hear about that! 

Our Tech Stack:

Python

Thrift

MySQL

AWS

TypeScript

React

Redux

Looker

GitHub

Datadog

Perks & Benefits:

Remote-first work model lets you work from anywhere in the U.S. and the option to pop into a satellite office

Competitive salary

Equity in the company

Comprehensive medical, mental health, dental, vision, and life insurance

Employer-matched 401(k)

Flexible PTO (manager approval)

Diverse environment, with women making up more than half of the company and half of the management team

Monthly stipend to offset home office expenses

Learning stipend for educational materials (e.g., books, online courses)

We acknowledge that applying for a new job can be intimidating, and we want to encourage any applicant who may be qualified for the position to apply.

Honor is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, political affiliation or belief.