Senior Engineer - Fullstack

Summary

Join Octave, a modern behavioral health practice, as a full-stack engineer with 5+ years of experience. You will contribute to the development of systems and tools supporting clients, providers, and the operational team. The role involves backend system and API development using Python and GraphQL/REST, collaborating with product managers and other engineers. You will support database design and management, ensuring data integrity and performance. The position requires working with frontend teams, documenting processes, and participating in testing and debugging. Octave is a small, growing, primarily remote team using Next.js (React), Django on PostgreSQL, gRPC, and GraphQL/REST.

Requirements

5+ years of experience building robust and scalable APIs and web applications

Responsibilities

• Assist in the design and development of backend systems and APIs using Python and GraphQL/REST
• Work closely with product managers to translate business requirements to functional code
• Collaborate with other engineers to implement scalable and efficient server-side logic
• Work with frontend and other cross-functional teams to integrate frontend interfaces with backend functionality
• Support database design and management, ensuring data integrity and optimal performance
• Learn and adapt to best practices and coding standards
• Collaborate with team members to document technical processes and solutions
• Support performance optimization efforts for improved system efficiency
• Participate in the testing and debugging of backend applications to identify and resolve issues
• Demonstrate a strong commitment to learning and growing as a full-stack engineer

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing and deploying modern web applications with React
• Experience developing and deploying Python applications into production environments
• Experience with relational database systems like PostgreSQL or MySQL
• Experience integrating and synchronizing data with third party APIs
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code & continuous deployment in production
• Experience with the Django web framework
• Experience with gRPC and Protobuf
• Experience working with healthcare, healthcare technology, and clinical staff, or other regulated industries
• A preference for writing quality code with automated testing and leaving the code base better than how you found it
• Experience with continuous delivery and troubleshooting production code
• Comfortable communicating and collaborating with engineers, clinical, and operations staff to solve open-ended problems
• Interest in doing mission-oriented work especially in the healthcare space

Benefits

• Company sponsored life insurance, disability and AD&D plans
• 401k retirement
• Medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, dependent care and commuter/parking options
• Paid Time Off
• Paid parental leave benefits