Staff Software Engineer (Full-Stack)

Our Mission

Healthcare should work for patients, but it doesn’t. In their time of need, they call down outdated insurance directories. Then wait on hold. Then wait weeks for the privilege of a visit. Then wait in a room solely designed for waiting. Then wait for a surprise bill. In any other consumer industry, the companies delivering such a poor customer experience would not survive. But in healthcare, patients lack market power. Which means they are expected to accept the unacceptable.

 

Zocdoc’s mission is to give power to the patient. To do that, we’ve built the leading healthcare marketplace that makes it easy to find and book in-person or virtual care in all 50 states, across +200 specialties and +12k insurance plans. By giving patients the ability to see and choose, we give them power. In doing so, we can make healthcare work like every other consumer sector, where businesses compete for customers, not the other way around. In time, this will drive quality up and prices down. 

 

We’re 17 years old and the leader in our space, but we are still just getting started. If you like solving important, complex problems alongside deeply thoughtful, driven, and collaborative teammates, read on.

 

Your Impact on our Mission

Zocdoc’s greatest asset is its people. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a critical role in revolutionizing healthcare by building products that meet the needs of both providers and patients. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product, Data, and Design, to bring innovative features to market, driving Zocdoc's mission forward. You'll provide technical leadership, guide design decisions, and mentor engineers to drive best practices across the organization.

 

You’ll enjoy this role if you are…

• Inspired by the opportunity to positively impact the healthcare experience for millions of customers and providers
• Passionate about building highly scalable platforms with the latest technologies, and excited about developing new and innovative products
• Product-driven with a relentless focus on user needs, and excited to partner closely with cross functional teams leading projects beginning from the early ideation phase
• A fervent champion of engineering fundamentals and enjoy driving adoption of best practices in code health, testing, and maintainability across organizations and teams
• A leader who mentors and grows teams, cultivates innovation and drives cross-collaboration across multiple teams
• A believer that diverse and inclusive teams and cultures are non-negotiable 
• An entrepreneur with strong ownership who can thrive in an ambiguous and fast changing environment

 

Your day to day is…

• Technical ownership of Zocdoc’s expansion into several new and innovative offerings, including roadmapping, prototyping and leading 0-1 projects that spans across Zocdoc’s technology stack
• Analyzing and decomposing complex product challenges to drive sound design decisions
• Working hands-on with your team and shipping production code using C#, React, AWS technologies to millions of users autonomously
• Collaborating with our agile team of dedicated and brilliant engineers, product managers, and designers
• Mentoring your peers and colleagues by giving thoughtful feedback, with the notion that helping others means learning and growing yourself
• Continuously improving our ability to deliver quality solutions through evolving engineering process and technical capabilities

 

You’ll be successful in this role if you have…

• Successfully shipped code for a complex, user-facing product, with experience working across multiple areas of the technology stack
• Demonstrated history of solid and well rounded system design skills
• Improved developer productivity, efficiency and velocity by setting up the best practices for coding, testing, deployment and observability
• Successfully mentored other engineers in the past and have encouraged your peers to use engineering best practices
• Been an effective communicator capable of delving into technical project details and facilitating discussions on technical aspects. You should also be adept at presenting technical solutions at an appropriate level of abstraction for a diverse cross-functional audience, including non-technical stakeholders.
• A growth mindset and inspire excellence
• Experience successfully working with a distributed workforce preferred
• 6+ years of significant expertise in full-stack development. Strong understanding of OO Fundamentals. Experience within AWS environments and a high emphasis on testing is a plus