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Senior Software Engineer

Best Buy Health
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7 months ago
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As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work as part of a Product Engineering team. At Best Buy Health, we strive to deliver end-end customer and patient outcomes vs. narrow features. They take care to evaluate where they can further the long-term technical vision whilst having a bias towards action and customer/product value.
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This role is remote eligible, which means you would work virtually from home or another non-Best Buy Health location.
What you’ll do

  • You will work in one of our software engineering teams, building out our platform and product for use by patients and healthcare professionals.
  • You will build scalable, well-tested applications and microservices.
  • You will collaborate closely with other disciplines, including biomedical engineering, data science, electronics engineering and product science.
  • You will operate across the stack but will have significant back-end or data engineering experience.
  • You will contribute to technical design and code reviews
  • You will help provide 24/7 support for the product, resolving live issues when needed
  • You will be responsible for a product engineering team delivering key objectives that enable the product to scale, directly improving healthcare provision across the world.
  • You will work closely with Product Management and ensure the team is accountable for the outcomes delivered. You will have a firm grasp on why the team is building functionality, for whom and the value it will deliver. You will also contribute to that product vision and strategy and likely have strong natural motivation to do so.
  • You will be aware of the impact of your teams work on other areas of the org, including longer term architectural viability of solutions, as well as opportunities for wider cooperation.


Basic qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field OR equivalent combination of education and/or experience
  • 3 years of relevant experience with a Bachelors degree OR equivalent relevant professional experience


Preferred qualifications

  • You have significant previous experience as a Software Engineer
  • You have a good knowledge of at least one modern programming language
  • You have experience writing tests and testable code
  • You are flexible and can learn on the job quickly
  • You enjoy solving problems and making a difference
  • You have experience delivering across managed cloud platforms such as AWS
  • You can pragmatically balance quality with a fast-paced schedule
  • You are a good team player, ready to help, debate, compromise and work together
  • You are comfortable working, prototyping and delivering incrementally, adapting based on customer needs and technical difficulties, always with the user in mind
  • You have an eye for detail and you always look at the big picture
  • You are comfortable reviewing, releasing, deploying and troubleshooting your and other peoples code
  • Experience in the healthcare industry or have worked with Ionic hybrid apps
  • Exposure of working with highly scalable and distributed systems


What’s in it for you
We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.
Our benefits include:

  • Competitive pay
  • Physical and mental well-being support


About us
Best Buy Health aims to enrich lives through technology and meaningful connections. We do that by focusing on consumer health products that help people live healthier lives, device-based emergency response services for the active aging population and virtual care offerings that help connect patients to physicians.
Application deadline: Minimum of 5 days from the posting date. You can find that date above the job title at the top of the page.

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