Senior Staff Engineer at Nomad Health Corporate

Position Summary

The Sr. Staff Software Engineer influences the long-term evolution of web technology for the country’s first tech-driven healthcare staffing platform. 

Responsibilities

• Develop features and improvements to the Nomad Health platform in a secure, well-tested, and performant way.
• Work with Product Management and other stakeholders (Backend, UX, etc.) to iterate on new features within the product and exert significant influence on the overall vision and long-range goals of the team.
• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Consistently ship small and large features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with cross-functional teams on larger projects.
• Help improve the overall experience of our product through improving the quality of the Frontend features both in your group and features that benefit other groups.
• Help identify areas of improvements in the code base, both specific to your group and outside your group (e.g. component library) and help contribute to make it better
• Learn from, collaborate with, and mentor other Frontend Engineers to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers. Everyone can contribute something new to the team regardless of how long they’ve been in the industry.
• Drive innovation on the team with a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems of immense complexity and scope.
• Proactively seeks out difficult impediments to our efficiency as a team ("technical debt"), propose and implement solutions that will enable the entire team to iterate faster
• Represent Nomad Health and its values in public communication around broad initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions. Interact with customers and other external stakeholders as a consultant and spokesperson for the work of your team.
• Participate in the Incident Management on-call rotation to help ensure the availability goals for Nomad Health platform are met, by working with reliability engineers and development team members.
• Support the team and the business by providing context and technical specifications, leading the implementation of complex and sometimes high-risk projects, while maintaining efficient communications with all stakeholders including product partners and engineering leadership.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience as a software engineer, 8+ years of experience in a lead role
• Professional experience with modern JavaScript web frameworks, preferably React
• Experience with writing automated tests (e.g. Jest, Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, AVA, tape)
• A solid understanding in core web and browser concepts (e.g. how the browser parses and constructs a web page)
• A solid understanding of semantic HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript concepts.
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions to achieve consensus with peers and cross-functional teams
• Experience tackling performance and optimization problems with a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent them
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with great organizational skills and proven ability to thrive in a fully remote organization working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Share our values, and work in accordance with those values

Nice to Have

• Working knowledge of Python and Flask
• Ability to integrate with and develop GraphQL APIs
• Experience implementing Authentication and Authorization solutions

We are committed to providing care and that starts with equipping Nomad employees with benefits focused on enhancing physical, financial, emotional, and social well-being. Our packages may include comprehensive health plans, 401k matching, equity, flexible PTO, sick leave, paid parental leave, a remote-first work environment with an annual stipend to kit out your home office, and more! Compensation for this role for a candidate based in Colorado is expected to be between $216,000 and $272,500, and for a candidate based in NYC to be between $216,000 and $272,500. Actual pay may be higher or lower depending on geographic locations, skills, experience, and other factors permitted by law.