Senior Backend Engineer

Location Type

Remote

Role

Backend

Level

Senior

Language (main)

Ruby

Framework (main)

Rails

About PatientIQ

PatientIQ is a fast-growing health tech company empowering healthcare providers, industry, researchers, and others to collaborate on the mission to improve patient outcomes. PatientIQ is headquartered in Chicago and backed by top-tier west coast venture capital, major hospital investors, and others.

PatientIQ is a cloud-based software platform and patient engagement technology that automates the collection of patient reported outcomes. It also offers procedure-specific education modules to help prepare patients for treatments and proactively monitors their recovery.

The platform’s built-in analytics and biostatistical modeling engine generates actionable insights for quality improvement, research and marketing purposes. The collected data can also be used to collaborate and benchmark with other institutions. The software comes with full-service support and is easily configurable around organization-specific workflows.

About the Job

What You’ll Work On:

PatientIQ Network: build the largest peer network for healthcare providers to collaborate, share de-identified data, and investigate rare diseases and novel techniques to push the boundaries of medicine
Benchmarking: enable administrators at hospital systems to benchmark their physicians outcomes against industry standards
Patient Engagement: automate patient workflows based upon disease status, procedures, and other clinical events with our rules engine and patient portal
3rd Party Integrations: grow our library of 3rd party integrations, including electronic medical records, and other healthcare partners
Scaling: refactor existing systems and optimize the platform for scaling and increasing data flow

Technologies we use:

Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, RSpec, CircleCI, Docker
AWS, PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch

How we work:

Google suite, Notion, JIRA, Slack, Copilot
Small, full-stack teams (Product, Design, Engineering, QA)
2-week sprints, 6-month strategic planning cycles
Remote

Requirements:

Role Responsibilities

Work with product managers and designers to build and realize new product features
Active development with proper test coverage
Perform peer code reviews to ensure the team is producing well tested and maintainable code
Support and optimize a critical production environment

What we look for:

6 years of experience building web applications
2+ years of first-hand professional experience with Ruby on Rails
Ability to write clean, well designed, and scalable code
Desire to work in a collaborative environment: interactions with the leadership team, product managers, and customer success teams
Knowledge of databases and backend experience

Benefits:

Meaningful equity – our employees own a stake in PatientIQ and are emboldened to build something great
Unlimited paid time off – we trust you to take the time you need when you feel it is appropriate, given your workload and responsibilities. No need to track it or save up.
Comprehensive benefits package including top-notch health, dental, vision insurance, and 401K.
Remote friendly – now and always
Virtual happy hours, lunch and learns, team demo days, company outings, and more