Software Engineer II – Backend

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Octave

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Wellness • Healthcare Insurance

Octave is a mental health care provider offering affordable and accessible therapy services tailored for individual, couples, and family needs. Their services include finding and matching clients with carefully vetted therapists who are experts in various specialty areas and languages. Octave emphasizes clinical excellence with a strong focus on evidence-based and outcome-driven therapy solutions, leading to faster and more effective improvements in mental health. With both in-person and virtual therapy options available, they make mental health care convenient and embrace a diverse network of therapists, including a significant percentage who identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color. Octave partners with Evernorth Behavioral Care to deliver high-quality care to Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth members, enhancing access and satisfaction for their clients.

201 - 500 employees

🧘 Wellness

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

💰 $20M Series B on 2021-05

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and implement scalable and robust backend systems and APIs using Python. • Optimize database design, performance, and security to ensure data integrity and efficiency. • Conduct thorough testing and debugging of backend applications, ensuring high-quality, bug-free software. • Oversee deployment and maintenance of backend services, ensuring smooth operation and uptime. • Promote best practices to maintain high-quality codebase and consistently follows stated best practices. • Develop and maintain technical documentation for backend systems and processes. • Take ownership of the backend development lifecycle, from concept to testing, deployment, and monitoring. • Writes correct and clean code, with guidance, that is easily testable, easily understood by other developers, and accounts for edge cases and errors; uses comments effectively. • Can participate in technical design of features with guidance. • Uses a systematic approach to debug issues, sometimes with the help of more senior engineers. • Begins to focus on attaining expertise in one or more areas (eg, JS/React/Python/etc development, performance best practices, testing, infra, etc). • Communicates assumptions and gets clarification on tasks up front to minimize the need for rework.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of experience building robust and scalable backend applications. • Experience with infrastructure-as-code & continuous deployment in production. • Experience working with healthcare, healthcare technology, and clinical staff, or other regulated industries. • Experience with gRPC and Protobuf. • Experience with relational database systems like PostgreSQL or MySQL. • Experience integrating and synchronizing data with third party APIs. • Experience with continuous delivery and troubleshooting production code. • Solid working knowledge of Python and at least one of its web frameworks. • Experience developing and deploying enterprise Python applications into production. • A preference for writing quality code with automated testing and leaving the code base better than how you found it. • Comfortable communicating and collaborating with engineers, clinical, and operations staff to solve open-ended problems. • Interest in doing mission-oriented work especially in the healthcare space.

🏖️ Benefits

• company sponsored life insurance • disability and AD&D plans • Voluntary benefits such as 401k retirement • medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, dependent care and commuter/parking options • generous Paid Time Off • paid parental leave benefits