Description
Company: The mission of Well (https://www.well.co/) is to transform healthcare through our unique impact on our members' health and wellbeing. We do this through our differentiated consumer experience and world-class data and analytics engine that drive engagement and health-related behavior change. Our product — a consumer health engagement platform — integrates concierge services, behavioral health, care management and wellness services to drive sustained engagement that leads to lower costs and improved health in our members. In addition to our product, we know our team makes us unique. We’re a highly diverse and engaged organization whose employees are passionate about the mission of the company and whose management is passionate about the employees.
Position Title: Senior Software Engineer (Haskell/Functional Programming)
Reporting to: Engineering Manager
Location: Chapel Hill, NC; Newton, MA; New York, NY. Remote candidates considered.
Compensation: Senior Software Engineer ($160,000-$180,000) depending upon qualifications, plus bonus and benefits
Position Summary:
Upon joining our team, you’ll help lead the development of a world-class technology platform at the heart of our engagement and behavior change platform. You’ll get to work with a diverse group of fellow Haskellers, backend and mobile developers, data scientists and product managers to design, implement and govern product features that reach the hands of hundreds of thousands of users. We expect you will deliver solutions that are holistically correct, flexible for future changes, efficient, secure and all-around maintainable. Haskell usually makes this a little easier and we're big fans. Ownership, self-motivation, teamwork, and experience working in a fast-paced agile environment are highly desired.
Key Responsibilities:
Own substantial workstreams, including both new user-facing features and improvements on our existing services ecosystem.
Break down problems into a cogent execution plan and then deliver on that plan with high quality maintainable code
Collaborate with a team of fellow Haskellers, mobile, backend and data science practitioners to create and deliver a seamless, tailored experience for our users
Contribute substantially to platform architectural decisions and enhance our team’s ability to make correct decisions that stand the test of time
Help build and maintain internal administrative applications that support core functioning of our technology platform
Help us achieve operational excellence in software development by participating in and leading code reviews, quality assurance, and production monitoring
Take personal responsibility for achieving and maintaining Engineering momentum in a Healthcare environment that prioritizes security, privacy and compliance with HIPAA guidelines as well as a variety of best practices
Requirements
Expertise in the principled delivery of production software using functional programming concepts (such as immutability and advanced type systems)
Proven knowledge of Haskell in particular (though not necessarily in production)
Broad understanding of multiple programming languages and paradigms to ensure effective collaboration across our diverse mobile, backend, and data science teams
Enthusiastic about leveraging LLMs to accelerate development, while maintaining uncompromising standards for delivering succinct, maintainable, slop-free code
Driven to explore and adopt new patterns, languages, and methodologies, actively contributing to our evolving engineering culture rather than relying on the status quo
Experience in building systems that are data-driven and interact with a variety of external sources, including databases and their tradeoffs, streaming solutions and APIs
Good understanding of both microservices and monolith patterns with insight into the choices and tradeoffs involved
Experience with modern cloud platforms; AWS, GCP, Azure
Experience in Healthcare contexts
Good understanding of security principles in software development broadly and as specifically applied to consumer-facing applications
Degree and background in a related field such as Computer Science, Engineering or a quantitative discipline with strong demonstrated practical experience
Summary
Well is on a mission to redefine the healthcare experience. This is an opportunity to re-shape health and healthcare. We are developing solutions to improve the quality and affordability of healthcare. We welcome team members who are passionate about that mission.
We embrace diversity and are committed to building an inclusive team. All qualified applicants will be eagerly considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
