Director, Software Engineering

Summary

Join RxSense as a Director of Software Engineering and lead teams in building and scaling our cloud-based platform. You will be a hands-on contributor, architecting and designing software for millions of users, while also mentoring other engineers and managing technical debt. This role requires extensive experience in C#/.NET, distributed systems, and cloud technologies (AWS preferred). You will partner with various teams to understand user needs and deliver effective technical solutions. The position offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to work in a dynamic and award-winning healthcare technology company.

Requirements

• BS (or higher, g., MS, or Ph.D.) in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding, or equivalent technical experience
• Experience managing multiple teams and Engineering Managers both onshore/offshore
• 15+ years of work-related industry experience developing high-performance web applications in C#/ .NET
• Experience architecting and developing distributed systems
• Experience writing RESTful
• Experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, DynamoDB)
• Experience with Event-Driven Architecture (Kafka, Kinesis)
• Proficiency with relational databases (like MySQL or SQL Server) and performance tuning
• Extensive knowledge of your development stack; for example, with C#, have a comprehensive understanding of the .NET, .NET Core, MVC, WebAPI, IIS
• Solid CS fundamentals with experience across a range of disciplines, with one or more area of deep knowledge and experience
• Consistent track record of developing, shipping, and maintaining large-scale web applications with a user mindset
• A comprehensive understanding of complex backend architectures and their core pieces, such as service models, protocols, reliability, deployment, and capacity
• Experience working with AWS offerings such as EC2, ALBs, RDS, Beanstalk, API Gateway or with a different cloud provider and similar services
• Demonstrated experience to understand the tradeoffs to technical design decisions, risk assessment and mitigation activities
• Experience in analyzing and troubleshooting application issues in a timely fashion
• Experience working in Agile DevOps/CICD model
• Proven analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Must have excellent communication skills both verbal and written

Responsibilities

• Identify, conceive, and deliver without supervision, with complete latitude for independent
• Partner with directors, engineering managers, lead engineers, product managers and designers to deeply understand the needs of our users to architect and leverage most effective technical solution to build a product that serves those
• Build infrastructure to handle millions of transactions and secure, sensitive health data
• Design and architect software capable of reaching millions of users
• Write modular, secure, and well-tested code
• Ensure our development environment is best in class by delivering improvements to internal tooling and direct partnership with our product platform teams
• Articulate a technical vision for a more enlightened way of working and work with multi-functional partners to deliver that vision
• Conduct performance reviews
• Mentor less experienced peers, and engineering managers
• Take product operational responsibility set measurable goals and meet
• Manage technical debt, ensure code quality, and participate in code
• Promote collaboration and best practices such as simplicity, automation, good design patterns, code coverage and reusability
• Own and maintain existing application platforms as part of the team, and look for opportunities to improve them

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with specific technologies such as Redis, ElasticSearch, Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker) is nice to have
• Experience migrating monolithic architecture to micro services architecture and a good working knowledge of message queuing systems is nice to have