Backend Engineer with Salesforce Experience

Base Compensation: $135K - $165K

Use your engineering experience to help people live healthier

Wellth is a fast-growing digital health startup headquartered in Los Angeles that recently raised a Series B from leading investors, including SignalFire. Our mission is to provide daily care motivation to people living with chronic conditions so they can make healthier choices every day.

We don’t assume that just providing a tool or a beautiful app will get results. We use behavioral economics, habit science, and technology to motivate and sustain behavior change in some of the US's highest-need and most underserved populations (think Medicaid and Medicare), drastically changing their quality of life and health outcomes. We have demonstrated results with several large insurers and health systems (e.g., reducing hospitalizations by over 40%) and are scaling the company and team. We aim to be the category leader in improving health outcomes for hard-to-engage populations.

Our work saves lives every day. We are a mission-driven company where you work with incredible talent and see tangible differences directly from your impact and influence.

You have the opportunity to build systems that drive daily healthy habit experiences.

Some of the problems you’ll work on include:

• Determining the best population to select for an invitation to use our mobile application,
• Deciding the prioritization of which patients our acquisition staff should contact and
• Designing a cost-effective solution for enriching our data with 3rd-party marketing and CRM sources.

Specifically, you will:

• Design, build, test, launch, and operate services that work with healthcare data that integrate with Wellth’s marketing acquisition, Salesforce CRM, and business-critical systems.
• Design and implement components that automate our sophisticated marketing outreach system
• Tune existing Salesforce flow and Apex components to support 
• Deliver scalable and highly-available systems that are supported by operational excellence best practices.
• Develop shared scripts and tooling, share knowledge via documentation and tech talks, and change existing SDLC processes to improve and contribute to developer experience.
• Own the solutions for Wellth’s business challenges, such as reducing our acquisition and support costs, improving our tactical capabilities for outreaching users, and enhancing our business decision-making around
• Protect members’ privacy by following secure SDLC guidelines to maintain our HITRUST certification.

You will be a member of a diverse and supportive team. 

You will work with:

• Marketing acquisition roles to understand how to improve the systems to meet their marketing and acquisition needs.
• Product Managers to ideate and groom potential new service capabilities and discuss new business challenges to solve.
• Data engineers to work on loading and transforming data for the services we own.
• Quality engineers to build testability into the systems we build.
• Our Director of Engineering on your career development, supporting your technical and leadership growth.

You might be the candidate we’re looking for.

We’re looking for someone who has:

• Marketing and CRM systems experience
• 3+ years of professional experience working with Salesforce CRM, working with flows and Apex code
• 3+ years of professional experience integrating with marketing automation platforms such as Customer.io, Braze, Marketo, Iterable, HubSpot, ActiveCampaign, OneSignal, Mailchimp, or Intercom
• Backend platform engineering experience
• 3+ years of professional experience building production services using Node and Typescript.
• 3+ years of professional experience troubleshooting, remediating, and learning from operational issues with a production service.
• 3+ years of professional experience working with relational and NoSQL databases
• 2+ years of professional experience in writing unit and integration tests to validate the correctness of all critical code.
• 1+ years of professional experience working with pub/sub architectures using RabbitMQ, Kafka, Amazon MQ, or SQS.
• 1+ years of professional experience working with Elastic Search, Solr, or alternatives
• 1+ years of professional experience working with APM tools such as DataDog
• Basic data engineering and analytics experience
• 1+ years of professional experience working with analytic databases such as Redshift, BigQuery, or Snowflake
• 1+ years of professional experience working with large, highly confidential data sets in healthcare, legal, government, or financial industries
• Engineering leadership skills
• A consistent track record of solving moderately complex technical problems with reliable delivery of their solutions.
• 3+ years of professional experience working in a team environment, contributing to a shared codebase, sharing technical knowledge through technical talks and documentation, and implementing developer tooling to improve team efficiency.
• Effective verbal and written communication.

We expect our candidates can:

• Be an owner of large vertical and horizontal system concerns from inception, to launch, to post-launch operations. 
• Be a strong communicator with engineers, other cross-functional roles, and leadership. Written or verbal, your communications are timely, concise, and clear.
• Pragmatic, balancing quality, speed, cost, and theory.
• Operate with autonomy
• Influence without authority
• Teach, coach, and mentor other engineers, being a force multiplier for the team.
• Compliment the work culture that supports team members, encourages curiosity and learning, and takes advantage of opportunities to improve systems and processes

In addition to the above, our ideal candidate has:

• 1+ years of experience building scalable, high-availability services using AWS and open-source technologies
• 1+ years of experience working with Salesforce and Customer.io
• Proficiency in integrating with 3rd party systems
• Proficiency working with event-driven, realtime systems
• Knowledge of data security to protect highly confidential and sensitive data.
• Experience working with healthcare products and data.
• Resides in the Los Angeles area, able to work in a hybrid environment

You will enjoy working with us at Wellth.

The benefits of working with us include:

• Flexible working arrangements, supporting strong remote-first practices and tools with the option to work in our excellent gathering space in Marina Del Rey.
• Robust paid time off and generous parental leave program.
• Competitive salary & commission structure.
• Health, dental, vision insurance, and FSA/HSA plans.
• Ability to have a positive impact on people who need it most.
• Support of a highly dedicated team focused on building the future of healthcare.

Wellth is an equal-opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.