Senior Backend Engineer

The Opportunity:

Are you a talented backend dev looking to take your next step? We're looking for a talented engineers for our client - a global health tech startup. The role will work on building and maintaining the products' - a global health apps' - backend services, APIs, and deployment.

Our client has recently received funding and are in a growth phase, expanding their teams and growing the business globally with big partners across health, pharma, and insurance. The engineering team is being coached by former YouTube and Slack Global Engineering Leads.

If building a truly best in the industry level product and working as part of a talented group of engineers sounds exciting to you; please read on.

About Elfie

Elfie has the ambitious mission to save millions of people every year. Our vision is to provide a holistic and gamified solution to chronic diseases, the silent killers of our generation.

25% of all people die from a chronic disease (hypertension, diabetes, cholesterol). The good part is that it could be avoided if people followed their doctor's prescription and lifestyle recommendations. The sad part is that they don't due to lack of awareness of danger, unwillingness to change lifestyle, and costs to follow treatment (lifelong).

Elfie is a chronic disease management application that gamifies self-monitoring and supports patients across the world. It is promoted by 10,000s doctors and endorsed by healthcare leaders.

You can access the Elfie app here (geofenced):

Responsibilities:

• Contribute on a daily basis to the codebase with attention to detail and high quality.
• Develop solutions to concrete user-facing problems, design and implementation of large software components, systems, and features.
• Build, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software, specifically APIs used by our native mobile client applications.
• Being autonomous on managing his/her own project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Resolve challenging technical issues.
• Collaborate closely with teammates and help grow their abilities through technical contributions and mentorship.
• Contribute to a culture of quality and innovation for our engineering team and across the company,

Requirements:  

• Front-end: Flutter, Firebase suite (Authentication, Firestore, Storage, Messaging)
• Back-end: (NestJS / TypeScript), GCP (PubSub, Cloud Tasks, Functions, )
• Testing: Jest, Appium, Cucumber
• DevOps: GitHub Actions, GCP (Cloud Build, Cloud Run), Docker
• Analytics: GCP DataStudio, BigQuery, Google Analytics, UXcam, CleverTap, Adjust

Tech expertise required to be successful:

• Extensive experience in NodeJS, TypeScript a plus.
• Mastering at least 1 NodeJS framework(Express, MEAN, Hapi, etc...)
• Experience with a noSQL datastore and data modelling.
• Experience with DevOps and cloud infrastructure AWS or GCP and docker. Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform services are a big plus.Experience in software debugging.
• Ability to code review and provide feedback on the work of other developers.
• BS degree in computer science or similar experience; graduate degree a plus.

Experience required to be successful:

• 8+ years of relevant industry experience
• Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment with quick iteration, continuous deployment, and test-driven development;
• Excellent communication skills in English (professional and personal fluency); Vietnamese is a plus.

Team management experience and product mindset:

• Experience in technical leadership and mentorship on a team of software engineers (2~6 people)
• Experience helping interview, hire, and onboard peers, and delegating responsibilities to others in order to scale a team.
• Positive attitude and willingness to roll up sleeves and dig deep to achieve goals;
• Strong bias for action - you know we have a lot to deliver and you can help us get there

What's great about this role?

• Work with a team of talented and committed software engineers to deliver products that you can be proud of,
• Use modern technologies, with full autonomy on technical orientations and decisions
• Deliver a product that has a positive impact on people's health, worldwide, and is backed by large healthcare corporations and institutions,
• Global footprint (Latin America, Southeast Asia) with roll-out plan in Europe for 2022
• Senior leadership team with successful previous exits,
• Direct coaching by former YouTube and Slack Global Engineering Leads,
• Flexible working location (engineering team timezone is GMT+7),
• Very competitive compensation package.

What's challenging about the role?

• You will be fully visible and accountable for your work.
• You will directly work with experts who expect you to be excellent in your field.
• We adhere to global product and technical standards to ensure quality, security, scalability.