Senior Software Engineer 1

Job description

We are united in our mission to make a positive impact on healthcare. Join Us!

• South Florida Business Journal, Best Places to Work 2024
• Inc. 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America 2024
• 2024 Black Book Awards, ranked #1 EHR in 11 Specialties
• 2024 Spring Digital Health Awards, “Web-based Digital Health” category for EMA Health Records (Gold)
• 2024 Stevie American Business Award (Silver), New Product and Service: Health Technology Solution (Klara)

Who we are:

We Are Modernizing Medicine (WAMM)! We’re a team of bright, passionate, and positive problem-solvers on a mission to place doctors and patients at the center of care through an intelligent, specialty-specific cloud platform. Our vision is a world where the software we build increases medical practice success and improves patient outcomes. Founded in 2010 by Daniel Cane and Dr. Michael Sherling, we have grown to over 3400 combined direct and contingent team members serving eleven specialties, and we are just getting started! ModMed’s global headquarters is based in Boca Raton, FL, with a growing office in Hyderabad, India, and a robust remote workforce across the US, Chile, and Germany.

ModMed is hiring a driven Senior Software Engineer 1 to join our positive, passionate, and high-performing team . This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-paced Healthcare IT company that is truly Modernizing Medicine!

Responsibilities

• Focus on back-end coding as a primary responsibility, developing robust and scalable server-side solutions with attention to detail and quality.
• Collaborate with the Product team to design back-end solutions that address customer needs, balancing technical complexity with delivered value.
• Participate in team discussions, planning, and decision-making to improve workflows and ensure collaboration.
• Break down complex requirements into actionable tasks, providing detailed technical specifications and clear acceptance criteria.
• Implement new features while maintaining and enhancing APIs, services, and data layers, ensuring high-quality standards with unit and integration tests.
• Work with relational and non-relational databases to ensure optimized queries and reliable data storage.
• Integrate with third-party tools and services, such as message brokers (e.g., RabbitMQ) and external APIs, seamlessly.
• Contribute to ongoing refactoring efforts, ensuring the codebase adheres to modern technical standards and best practices.
• Mentor and support the technical growth of team members through pairing, knowledge sharing, and fostering a collaborative environment.

Skills and Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience with Ruby and Ruby frameworks (e.g., Rails, Grape, Sinatra).
• Strong test-driven development (TDD) mindset, leveraging frameworks such as RSpec.
• Hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and non-relational databases.
• Proficiency in working with message brokers like RabbitMQ.
• Experience with building and maintaining RESTful APIs and knowledge of GraphQL best practices is a plus.
• A strong drive to learn, take on new challenges, and turn ideas into reality through ownership and follow-through.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams, including Engineering, Design, and Product, with a focus on delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Skilled in writing and maintaining clear, detailed documentation to share knowledge and ensure process transparency.
• Demonstrated success in mentoring engineers to improve standards, reduce defects, and contribute to a high-performing team.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence technical and strategic decisions.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket (or other Git servers), and Jenkins.
• Experience with continuous refactoring efforts to maintain a modern and efficient codebase.
• Knowledge of testing cloud-based SaaS applications and working with microservices architectures.
• Basic proficiency in coding with Java or Python.

ModMed Benefits Highlight: At ModMed, we believe it’s important to offer a competitive benefits package designed to meet the diverse needs of our growing workforce. Eligible Modernizers can enroll in a wide range of benefits:

India

• Meals & Snacks: Enjoy complimentary office lunches & dinners on select days and healthy snacks delivered to your desk,
• Insurance Coverage: Comprehensive health, accidental, and life insurance plans, including coverage for family members, all at no cost to employees,
• Allowances: Annual wellness allowance to support your well-being and productivity,
• Earned, casual, and sick leaves to maintain a healthy work-life balance,
• Bereavement leave for difficult times and extended medical leave options,
• Paid parental leaves, including maternity, paternity, adoption, surrogacy, and abortion leave,
• Celebration leave to make your special day even more memorable, and company-paid holidays to recharge and unwind.

United States

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, including a company Health Savings Account contribution,
• 401(k):  ModMed provides a matching contribution each payday of 50% of your contribution deferred on up to 6% of your compensation. After one year of employment with ModMed, 100% of any matching contribution you receive is yours to keep.
• Generous Paid Time Off and Paid Parental Leave programs,
• Company paid Life and Disability benefits, Flexible Spending Account, and Employee Assistance Programs,
• Company-sponsored Business Resource & Special Interest Groups that provide engaged and supportive communities within ModMed,
• Professional development opportunities, including tuition reimbursement programs and unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning,
• Global presence and in-person collaboration opportunities; dog-friendly HQ (US), Hybrid office-based roles and remote availability for some roles,
• Weekly catered breakfast and lunch, treadmill workstations, Zen, and wellness rooms within our BRIC headquarters.

PHISHING SCAM WARNING: ModMed is among several companies recently made aware of a phishing scam involving imposters posing as hiring managers recruiting via email, text and social media. The imposters are creating misleading email accounts, conducting remote “interviews,” and making fake job offers in order to collect personal and financial information from unsuspecting individuals. Please be aware that no job offers will be made from ModMed without a formal interview process, and valid communications from our hiring team will come from our employees with a ModMed email address ([email protected]). Please check senders’ email addresses carefully.  Additionally, ModMed will not ask you to purchase equipment or supplies as part of your onboarding process. If you are receiving communications as described above, please report them to the FTC website.