Senior Back End Engineer, Authorization

Rally Health (www.rallyhealth.com) has a mission to convert healthcare into a consumer-centric platform. We are looking for an engineer with a solid understanding of Authorization, Identity Management (IDM), or Service Oriented Architecture and the ambition to join us in scaling our core IDM and Security infrastructure. Rally is backed by Optum / UHG and has the capacity to invest in this mission.

We are building an ecosystem of distributed services using Scala / Akka / Play web applications communicating over HTTP and a distributed message bus and deployed on AWS with Chef, Mesos, and Docker. Join a fun and agile team of talented engineers, learn new skills, and help us architect successful solutions that can keep up with our high rate of growth.

Why be part of Rally:

• You have a passion to reinvent HealthCare; to make it better for the consumer and optimized for our partners
• You will gain valuable experience and grow quickly, along with the rest of us, as we roll our product out to our millions of eligible users
• Your work will make a difference. The products we build as we grow have the opportunity to revolutionize the way people interact with healthcare

About you:

• A strong desire to grow a team and learn to solve difficult problems at scale
• Someone that wants their voice heard and steps up to the challenges that need leadership
• Technical understanding and experience with –or a desire to learn– Identity Management solutions
• Understanding of the challenges with scaling in complex, distributed systems
• Familiarity with SOA and the ability to debug errors within a distributed services environment
• Real industry experience with Java (4+ years), C# (4+ years), or Scala (2+ years)
• Familiarity with both NoSQL and RDBMS databases, especially their strengths and weaknesses
• Ability to work in a high-traffic production environment with strict SLA requirements
• Industry experience with building, shipping and scaling REST-ful services
• Solid computer science fundamentals, problem solving, and analytical skills
• Clear communication skills and a strong sense of ownership of seeing things through

It’s even better if you’ve got experience with:

• Developing, monitoring and managing distributed applications under heavy traffic
• Test driven development
• Functional programming
• Programming with the actor model
• AWS (configuring, deploying, managing, monitoring) services and distributed applications
• Understanding various SDLC processes including agile (i.e. scrum), waterfall
• Distributed systems architecture experience, with API contract definition
• Chef or similar (Ansible, SaltStack, etc)

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.