PolicyStat

Indiana, Indianapolis

Full Time

Remote

Full-Stack Software Engineering Generalist

April 12, 2018

PolicyStat mission is to improve healthcare delivery through better processes. We help our clients make their policies and procedures easier to find, access, and manage. Hundreds of hospitals use our SaaS application to ensure that this critical information is correct, their staff can find it, and that it supports regulatory compliance.

As a critical member of our small product team, you’ll assume several roles including front-end, back-end, on-call support, API design, architecture, devops and database engineering.

Minimum Requirements
  • Demonstrated proficiency with Python, JavaScript, Linux, Git
  • Ability to work effectively and collaborate on a small team
  • Excellent communication skills and strong teamwork ethic
  • Passion and enthusiasm for creating amazing products and delivering unparalleled user experience
  • Strongly motivated by opportunities to positively impact the direction of the company and products
Responsibilities

  • Periodically serve in the on-call rotation for triage of escalated support questions and server alerts
  • Take initiative to address pain points that you and/or the team experience by working to improve the software, tools or processes of PolicyStat.
  • Review code contributed by the team and work with them to get it ready for production.
  • Design, develop, document, and write automated unit tests for new features
  • Proactively analyze, diagnose, and resolve software regressions.
  • Write well designed, testable, efficient code.

Highly Desired Skills
  • Demonstrated expertise with any of the following:
    • MySQL
    • React
    • GraphQL
    • LDAP & IPSec
    • SAML2
  • Demonstrated success in a fast-paced startup environment
  • A GitHub profile with lots of code and experience contributing to open source projects
  • Familiarity with AWS and/or GCP
  • Familiarity with serverless architecture
Interview Process

  • Application review
  • Complete a small timed work sample (no more than 45 minutes) in Python that consists of 3 programming challenges designed to represent what your day to day work would look like.
  • Conversation with Kyle, the Product team lead
  • Complete a timed work sample project (no more than 4 hours) that is representative of the kind of projects you'll be working on.
  • Culture conversation with the team

About PolicyStat
  • Founded in 2006, acquired by iContracts in 2017
  • 99% customer retention rate
  • ~50% annual growth over the last 6 years
  • Deployed ~650 times in 2016
  • Technology stack: Python 2.7+ (help us upgrade to Python 3), Django, AWS (RDS, EC2, S3), Ubuntu Linux, MySQL, GraphQL, React (work in progress)
  • Development Toolkit: Git, Vagrant, VirtualBox, Trello