Loyal

Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Posted on Feb 08, 2023

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Job Details

Full Time
📍Remote
🇺🇸 United States
🧔Senior

About Loyal

Loyal’s employees are tasked with shaping the future of the healthcare experience. In turn, we take pride in ensuring employees are healthy and whole – whatever that looks like for each individual. Our programs are centered around providing employees with benefits and perks that support the pursuit of happiness and well-being.

We believe that the key to Loyal's success is you. Your unique background, life experience, knowledge, self-expression, and talent make you uniquely you. Who you are, what you have experienced, and how you think inspires us to be innovative and bold.

Loyal is an equal opportunity employer. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, ancestry, sex, gender identity and expression, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, languages spoken, veteran status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

The Position

The Senior Software Engineer, Backend is an independent problem solver who can also work well on a team. In this role, the Senior Software Engineer, Backend will be responsible for the implementation of our backend services and infrastructure. You will take on new feature development from conception to completion, as well as maintaining and improving existing services. Our product team is a combination of researchers, designers, and engineers who are responsible for ensuring that we build the right product for our clients and deliver on exceptional user experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Solve our business/product needs pragmatically through new custom software, enhancements, bug fixes, or consulting.
  • Lead mid-sized development projects from start to finish including technical requirements gathering, data modeling, technology selection, and deployment.
  • Understand and participate in the design of customized solutions.
  • Make sure coded solutions will function/work within all environments considering all infrastructure differences.
  • Actively participating in code reviews.
  • Troubleshoot upper environment issues.
  • Work on multiple projects simultaneously, prioritize effectively to meet our delivery expectations.
  • Mentor teammates to share your knowledge and build a stronger team.

Requirements

We know that potential candidates are often less likely to apply to a position if they don’t match 100% of the job qualifications. Don’t let that be why you miss out on this opportunity! We encourage you to apply if you can demonstrate many of these skills and competencies.

Qualifications

  • BS in computer science or equivalent practical experience
  • Five or more years experience with C# (4.x, .NET Core)
  • Deep understanding of version control (Git) and code hosting (Github)
  • Deep understanding of SQL databases (SQL Server / Postgres)
  • Deep understanding of REST API's
  • Strong understanding of networking (HTTP protocol, load balancing, IP addressing)
  • Strong understanding of web servers (nginx)
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines
  • Strong written and verbal communications skills
  • Experience working within a software as a service (SaaS) company preferred.
  • Experience working within a high growth and/or ambiguous environment, with proven experience to be dynamic preferred.

Bonus Points

  • Worked with the Swagger, Swashbuckle or other kinds of API documentation tooling
  • Experience with Microsoft Azure
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and other containerization methods

Our Hiring Process

1. Application

You will submit your most current resume and answer a few questions, this shouldn’t take more than a couple of minutes. We are committed to reviewing your resume within 10 business days from when you applied.

2. Recruiter Screen

We use this time to get to know you and to tell you more about us. This may include a questionnaire, screening interview, or recorded video interview. The goal is to have a more holistic view of your experience, understand your motivation for exploring the role and determine alignment with our vision and values.

3. Virtual Interviews

The interview team may include the hiring manager, colleagues, and stakeholders. The goal is to give a sense of our culture and how you might add to it and determine if we think you are a fit for the role. We will discuss your experience, the position, and our values and give you the opportunity to ask questions, too.

4. Assignment

You may receive a take-home exercise to complete. This could be an assessment, sample project, or a remote coding exercise.

5. Offer

We will determine the candidate we would like to present with an offer. The recruiter will reach out to discuss the details of the offer.

6. Onboarding

After signing the offer, we will begin onboarding. A talent acquisition team member will act as your steward for this process and be available for questions.

Benefits

We are a remote-friendly company! We encourage you to apply from anywhere in the United States. We also believe in a work/life balance that fulfills you while you’re here and supports you when you’re not. We built our benefits package to prove that we’re committed to you having everything you need (including a little fun). Here is what we offer full-time employees:

  • Flexible paid time off, sick and personal days
  • At least one holiday per month (sometimes, more!)
  • Full health, dental, and vision insurance - Loyal pays the premium for all employees!
  • One Time Home Office Setup Stipend For Remote & Hybrid Roles
  • Monthly Internet Stipend for Remote & Hybrid Roles
  • Long term & short term disability
  • 401[k] plan
  • 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave
  • 2 Volunteer days per year
  • Matching Gift Program
  • Participation Grant Program
  • Annual Travel/Team Events up to twice per year (post-COVID)
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