Senior Backend Engineer - Health Profile team (100% remote-friendly within Poland)

About the team and your mission: 

In this role, you will help us move towards our vision: patients have easy, universal access to their health data through an insights-driven experience that helps them live healthier, longer lives. 

As a Backend Engineer on our Health Profile team, you will work on distributed systems by developing core products. The Health Profile team is within the Patient Engagement area, which mission is to make health data easily accessible and truly useful for patients, supporting better health decisions and long-term engagement with the app. The Health Profile team, specifically, is responsible of the Care Circle, Health Profile Foundations and Interoperability. 

You’ll have the opportunity to design and implement innovative features such as:

• Care Circle. Introduce family profiles on the Patients App.

• Health Profile. Create a structured version of the Health Profile.

• Lab Results. Extract and process lab results data from Medical Files.

• Public Health Integrations- P1. Synchronize Health Information from MyDr to Health Profile.

You’ll thrive in this role if you’re interested in both the business and product context as well as the technical side. 

Key Responsibilities

• Create new and maintain existing backend applications. 

• Demonstrate a proactive mindset with strong collaborative skills, essential for achieving success within a team-oriented environment.

• Exhibit a strong sense of ownership and autonomy, taking full responsibility for the entire software development lifecycle. This includes:

  • Business background: Effective collaboration with Product Management to understand and refine requirements.

  • Design and Implementation: Applying software design principles during the implementation phase to ensure high-quality outcomes and highly scalable solutions.

  • Operational Excellence: Managing and maintaining live production software at scale, ensuring its reliability and performance.

• Focus on simplicity: Ship minimal, maintainable solutions that just work. You prize clear APIs, small PRs, clean architecture, and automation that removes toil, making systems easy to use, test, and evolve.

• Have a deep understanding of software development foundations over specific tools or frameworks. Prioritize good object-oriented programming practices, TDD, domain-driven design (DDD), event-driven architectures, and architectural styles and design patterns.

• Strong backend experience with the flexibility to dive into different stacks as needed (PHP, JS, TS, .NET, Python, and cloud/infrastructure)
• You have a solid understanding of Object Oriented Programming principles.
• You are familiar with (and preferably worked with) tools such as GIT, ELK Stack, DataDog, RabbitMQ, Symfony Messenger, MariaDB, GitHub Actions, Docker, and Redis.
• Experience in Agile methodologies, with a particular focus on Extreme Programming (XP) practices, and remain committed to continuous improvement and adaptive planning.
• You continuously seek innovations and improvements while understanding the business perspective.
• You have a curious nature with a passion for learning and teaching. Actively contribute to the flow of knowledge within the team, fostering a culture of continuous development and collaboration.
• You can communicate in English – both spoken and written - min. B2 level
• You are open to receiving and giving valuable feedback.

Bonus Points

• Strong backend experience in PHP
• Good knowledge of PHP (7.4/8.2) and Symfony (3.3/6.4)

Compensation structure

• Share options plan.

True flexibility and work-life balance

• Remote or hybrid work model with or hub in Warsaw;
• Flexible working hours (fully flexible, as in most cases you only have to be on a couple of meetings weekly);
• 20/26 days of paid time off (depending on your contract);
• Additional paid day off on your birthday or work anniversary (you choose what you want to celebrate).

Health comes first

• Private healthcare plan with Signal Iduna for you and subsidized for your family.
• Multisport card co-financing for you to have access to sports facilities across Poland.
• Access to iFeel, a technological platform for mental wellness offering online psychological support and counseling.

Keep growing with us

• Free English classes.

We promote and embrace equal opportunities in our hiring process, and also every day at work. When you apply for our roles you receive equal treatment regardless of age, disabilities, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or parental status, race, color, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or any other dimension of human difference. If you require additional support in your recruitment process, we kindly encourage you to let us know. Behind those words you’re reading, there’s a person (hi!) who already helped a candidate by adapting the interviews, and now we’re lucky to have this person with us. So, even if you’ve never asked for it before, may this serve as a sign that, now, you can do so. We can only truly be equal if we adapt to each other.

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