Senior Back End Engineer, Eligibility

Rally Health (www.rallyhealth.com) has a mission to convert healthcare into a consumer-centric platform.

We’re 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 architect successful solutions that can keep up with our high rate of growth!

About you:

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

Experience relevant to this role:

• An understanding of the challenges with scaling in complex, distributed systems
• Familiarity with SOA and the ability to debug errors within a distributed services environment
• Java (4+ years), C# (4+ years), or Scala (2+ years)
• Familiarity with both NoSQL and RDBMS databases, especially their strengths and weaknesses
• Working in a high-traffic production environment with strict SLA requirements
• 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

Bonus points for having 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