Senior Back End Developer

Laguna Health is on the hunt for an experienced Backend Software Developer to join our innovative team!

As a Laguna developer, you will play a key role in designing and implementing Laguna’s cutting-edge platform, assuming full ownership of features from inception to deployment. Your mission is to create game-changing, robust, and scalable software solutions capable of handling large amounts of data and delivering accurate results. With your expert hands-on development skills and a razor-sharp understanding of cloud-native applications, you will make a lasting impact on digital health, positively influencing individuals leaving the hospital to recover at home.

What sets us apart is our commitment to directly impact patients' lives. As a Laguna developer, your work will extend beyond lines of code - you will be crafting solutions that enhance the well-being of those leaving the hospital for home recovery. If you are driven by the desire to make a meaningful difference and build with purpose, then you are precisely the kind of individual we are eager to welcome to our team!

About Us

Bottom line: We are not only saving money, we’re saving lives.

Laguna Health is an AI-powered contextual care management solution scaling personalized care. Our platform is built to help care managers identify risk barriers and intervene automatically - to provide better care and to reduce cost.

Our comprehensive product suite encompasses a cloud-based care management system, browser extension, a member app and an advanced AI models. The platform’s impact is proven through both published actuarial research as well as randomized clinical trials demonstrating 50% cost savings while increasing care manager productivity tenfold.

Laguna is led by a seasoned team of clinical leaders and technology innovators with a number of successful companies in digital health. Customers include health plans, employers and integrated delivery networks that aim to improve member outcomes while increasing care management productivity.

About the role

• Take part in the design and implementation of our products and architecture, playing a major role in the company’s success.
• Own features end-to-end, from design and development to production.
• Apply software engineering best practices in order to continuously improve the quality of our codebase and Laguna’s velocity.
• Collaborate with team members and colleagues to solve problems and overcome design challenges.
• Be involved in the product development process and impact Laguna’s offering.
• Drive the adoption of new technologies, frameworks, and tools to improve the team's efficiency and productivity.
• Take ownership of critical features and projects, ensuring their successful delivery and implementation.
• Identify and resolve complex technical issues and challenges.

About You

• 5+ years of substantial experience in server-side Node.js or Python.
• Ability to take a complex feature from start to finish: design, implement, test, release, and successfully deploy in production.
• Ability to handle open-ended problems, understand needs and priorities, and propose technical solutions.
• Deep understanding of strong fundamentals: object-oriented design, data structures systems, applications programming, and multithreading programming.
• Experience with software engineering best practices and methodologies: testing, code reviews, and clean-code, etc.
• Team player with a can-do attitude, and strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Capacity to work in a time-sensitive and high-volume dynamic startup environment

Nice to have (Advantages):

• Experience with AWS, and more specifically, Lambda, ECS, SQS, IAM, VPC
• Experience with testing methodologies – unit-testing, TDD, mocking, etc.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines