Docent Health is a technology-enabled healthcare services company, founded with the mission of helping health systems and providers make their patients feel beautifully connected to their healthcare journey. Our belief is that ALL patients should be treated like high-value customers.  

Our technology and services platform combines technology, human interaction, and analytics to help health systems do what is best for their patients and their hospitals, in order to provide a more integrated and fundamentally human patient experience.  Our goal, in partnering with our clients, is to make sure every patient feels valued, heard, and respected.  

We’re a polyglot shop that uses the best tools to solve our problems and we are thoughtful about our choices.  At Docent Health, you will develop applications used every day in hospitals. We care about the impact our work has on patients, nurses, and doctors in the industry. We need talented and thoughtful engineers to make this happen.

POSITION DESCRIPTION

You will:

• Be a founding member of an engineering team in a fast-growing startup
• Design, develop, test, and deploy highly scalable, complex applications
• Help to architect a product with sound design for existing and new functionality
• Assist to implement this architecture and philosophy in a scalable manner
• Work in a highly collaborative, mission-driven, agile product team
• Join a first-mover organization focused on cracking the code on patient experience to ensure that all patients feel known and valued in the moments where they need it most
• Embody the Docent values by operating with thoughtful efficiency, leading with data, and interacting with empathy

You ideally have:

• A passion for solving some really difficult business challenges: for our end-users, architecture, team, and process to name just a few areas
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering or similar; relevant experience is always considered in lieu of a specific degree path
• Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming and service-oriented architecture
• 5+ years of software development experience
• A desire to collaborate, coach, and teach as a part of our pursuit to build a world class engineering organization. You’re a learner, not a knower
• Experience or knowledge working in a RESTful SaaS architecture
• Some depth of experience in at least some areas of our current technologies: Ruby on Rails, Java, Python; MySQL and/or PostgreSQL; NoSQL (Redis, MongoDB and Cassandra); Elastic Search; HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (React/Redux, Angular, Ember)
• A deep understanding of what makes a great Agile software development processes
• Working knowledge of Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment platforms and Source Control systems
• The ability to work in an environment at a fast pace and with changing priorities
• Demonstrated ability to rapidly adapt to new technologies and quickly contribute to consistent delivery of high quality software
• The ability to analyze and solve problems, make difficult decisions, and take ownership of a problem from beginning to end
• Strong verbal and written communication skills (both technically and non-technically). You can go the distance in a technical discussion but also bring things up a level in a business conversation to explain to our colleagues in other areas of the business.

Nice to have:

• Experience building platform APIs and/or microservice architectures
• Previous experience with healthcare or other regulated (e.g., financial) software environments

Benefits:

Compensation for the role will include market-competitive cash compensation and a material equity opportunity. Consistent with our belief that our employees are our most valuable resource, Docent Health offers a competitive benefits package, including Blue Cross Blue Shield medical insurance, Guardian Dental and Vision, and a 401K for employee contribution, as well as unlimited snacks and company-wide catered lunch every Friday!