Staff Software Engineer

Zocdoc

183d • $176,000 - $264,000

About The Position

Zocdoc’s mission is to give power to the patient. To do that, we’ve built the leading healthcare marketplace that makes it easy to find and book in-person or virtual care in all 50 states, across +200 specialties and +12k insurance plans. By giving patients the ability to see and choose, we give them power. In doing so, we can make healthcare work like every other consumer sector, where businesses compete for customers, not the other way around. In time, this will drive quality up and prices down. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Developer Platform team, you will play a critical role in revolutionizing healthcare by supporting Zocdoc's Engineering teams. Your work will focus on improving developer workflows and ensuring that the features Zocdoc builds are functional, secure, and resilient, which in turn enables millions of patients to access the care they need. You will also provide technical leadership, guiding design decisions and mentoring other engineers to foster best practices across the organization.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional development experience
• Successfully shipped tools for your fellow developers and deployed highly scalable and resilient consumer-facing products
• Diverse experience with a variety of development tools and techniques. All the acronyms - AWS, CI, CD, IaC, APIs, etc
• Experience with containerization, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines
• Demonstrated history of solid and well-rounded system design skills with a strong understanding of OO Fundamentals
• Improved developer productivity, efficiency, and velocity by setting up best practices for coding, testing, deployment, and observability
• A passion for building platforms and understanding what makes a great platform - infrastructure as code, automation, libraries, APIs, standardization, and the right level of abstractions
• Successfully mentored other engineers in the past and have encouraged your peers to use engineering best practices
• Been an effective communicator capable of delving into technical project details and facilitating discussions on technical aspects
• A growth mindset and inspire excellence
• Experience successfully working with a distributed workforce preferred

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent engineering experience is preferred, but not required

Responsibilities

• Analyzing and decomposing complex product challenges to drive sound design decisions
• Working hands-on shipping code using languages like C#, GO, Python, and TypeScript
• Automating what can be automated and breaking down the barriers of traditional software development to increase developer productivity
• Making meaningful contributions as you own and release features that will impact our large engineering organization, ultimately affecting patients, doctors, and Zocdoc’rs alike
• Collaborating with teams of dedicated engineers and product managers
• Supporting the large product engineering organization with their tooling, deployment, CI/CD pipelines, shared services, and other platform needs
• Mentoring your peers and colleagues by giving thoughtful feedback, with the notion that helping others means learning and growing yourself
• Continuously improving our ability to deliver quality solutions through evolving engineering processes and technical capabilities
• Advocating for a productive and positive developer experience

Benefits

• Remote work flexibility
• Competitive salary range of $176,000—$264,000 USD
• Equity options for certain positions
• Commitment to fair and equitable compensation practices

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees