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Tava Health Senior Backend Engineer in Salt Lake City, Utah
Senior Backend Engineer
If you had all day to work on any project, chances are that you would pick something you’re passionate about. It might even be something that could change people’s lives. At Tava Health, that’s exactly what we’ve done. We’re passionate about improving emotional healthcare and it’s our mission to do it through frictionless, technology-enabled care.
The “technology-enabled” part is where you come in. We’re seeking an experienced back-end engineer whose passion for development is rivaled only by a passion for meaningful mission-based work. You’ll have the responsibility to ensure that the healthcare we provide is enabled by functional and reliable platforms for clinicians, clients, and internal staff. This work will improve the quality of our customers’ lives, and that’s work worth doing.
Responsibilities:
Infuse all of your work with empathy, security, and quality to produce high-quality experiences
Build APIs to support client, clinical, and administrative applications
Build integrations with 3rd party services for scheduling, video conferencing, and billing, etc.
Build systems to capture data about how clients interact with us to learn how to improve the product
Manage and build our service deployment in AWS
What We Expect:
Ability to move fast and work through ambiguity - we are a small startup and are constantly balancing the demands of business growth and platform reliability
Effective collaboration with frontend engineers, product managers, data scientists, behavioral health specialists, and others
Willingness to learn new technologies and processes that may be out of your comfort zone
Empathy for everyone you affect: patients, clinicians, coworkers, and yourself
Proactive and consistent improvement of the security of our systems
Clear and efficient technical writing and thought to communicate complex ideas
A bachelor’s degree in computer science or the equivalent with around 5 years of backend experience
Key Backend Technologies:
Node
GraphQL
Typescript (we also love Javascript)
PostgreSQL
AWS
Benefits
Competitive Salary and Stock options
Tava mental health benefit with access to your own personal therapist (available to you and your family)
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance (available to you and your dependents)
Up to $1200/year contributed to your Health Savings Account
Paid holidays and generous PTO
Work from anywhere
Parental leave
Paid team lunches every Friday
Tava is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, marital or disability status.
Please note: All Tava hiring is handled by company representatives using "@tavahealth.com" email addresses. Please beware of unauthorized recruiting communications requesting personal information. We never hire anyone without first completing a real-time, face-to-face interview (conducted by video or in-person), nor do we use encrypted instant messaging services like Signal. If you have questions regarding the authenticity of any outreach, please do not hesitate to use the chat feature on our website or contact us at careers@tavahealth.com
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