Staff Backend Engineer, Honor
Growth
$191-225k
+ Equity
In-home care network
Open for applications
In-home care network
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$191-225k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To change the care industry by building the first-of-its-kind care network and expand the world’s capacity to care.
Role
Who you are
- At least 5 years of professional experience building distributed systems in a product-centric company
- You have strong proficiency in building customer-facing applications in Python or similar programming languages
- You have extensive experience in designing and implementing scalable and resilient distributed systems and applications
- You have experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and container orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker)
- You enjoy collaborating with product managers and other cross functional stakeholders to understand business problems and translating them into technical solutions
- You are adept in leading execution of complex initiatives independently while defining best practices for high quality software development
- You are proficient in identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks, ensuring the systems can handle high volumes of traffic and data
- You have experience with observability tools and can define and orchestrate monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to ensure system health and uptime
- You care about the quality of your team's deliverables and help conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices
- You demonstrate strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in teams
- You are willing to participate in on-call rotations and provide technical support for production issues as needed
- Experience building asynchronous/event driven systems
- Experience working with RPC architecture
- Experience working at a technology startup and familiar with the challenges of evolving platform maturity
- Experience with leveraging GenAI technology to develop innovative solutions and enhance developer productivity, streamline workflows, and automate repetitive tasks
- Ideal candidates will have demonstrable experience developing scalable backend solutions in Python, a knack for translating business needs into elegant technical designs, and an aptitude for independently driving projects within a highly collaborative team
- Python Expertise: Significant hands-on experience with Python in a production environment
- Independent Execution: Ability to effectively own tasks, work with minimal oversight and proactively suggest solutions
- System-Level Thinking: Comprehensive understanding of how backend systems fit into a wider landscape, enabling well-informed design decisions
- Stakeholder Engagement: Proven ability to establish positive working relationships, proactively seek stakeholder input, and translate business requirements into actionable technical plans
- Adaptability & Growth Mindset: Thrive in a dynamic environment, open to evolving technologies and challenges
- Excellent Remote Communication: Highly capable communicator within distributed teams, maintaining transparency and effective collaboration
What the job involves
- As a senior technical contributor, you will take a leadership role in defining the next generation of care operations systems used by caregiving business owners and employees worldwide
- We're looking for seasoned engineers who are excited to refine market-leading SaaS, invent recommendation systems, and work closely with data science and data analytics to achieve new performance levels of operations and high levels of quality care
- This position is on our Growth Technology team that builds and supports systems for small businesses delivering care operations
- Hundreds of small businesses world wide depend on our systems of proprietary and market-leading software to operate their caregiving business
- You will deliver new systems and functionality to drive operations workflow with recommendations, prioritization, and automation
- We tackle processes from Home caregiver hiring to staffing assignments to demand generation and cost optimization
- We have an exciting runway ahead of us
- As Honor’s Care Platform grows quickly, building robust and scalable systems is critical
- As we make strategic technical investments to modernize our system, we are looking for a senior engineer to help execute our short and long-term architecture goals
- The tech stack you'll work with includes: Python, Thrift, MySQL, AWS, Looker, GitHub, DataDog
- Honor seeks an experienced Backend Engineer to enhance and expand our next-generation operations tools
- System Development & Design: Build and enhance robust backend systems and components in Python, contributing to the existing architectural direction
- Proactive Problem Solving: Contribute to feature development, troubleshooting, and identifying proactive solutions to improve system efficiency and robustness
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Build strong relationships with operations teams, effectively grasp their requirements, and propose feasible technical solutions
- Operational Impact: Analyze the impact of backend choices on business operations, proposing optimizations and advocating for changes for increased efficiency
Our take
Longer life expectancy and an aging population has resulted in the significant growth of the home-based care industry, as nearly 90% of people over the age of 50 wish to live in their homes as long as possible.
Honor is a technology-enabled home care company that partners with local care agencies, who leverage its infrastructure to handle back-office functions such as billing, scheduling, and staffing. The company currently provides non-medical home care services to people across the United States, supporting over 100,000 care professionals.
Boasting the world's largest home care network, the company's advanced care platform is revolutionizing how society cares for older adults. Powering over 1 million hours of care each week and with a number of key leadership hires announced over 2024, Honor is well set to see continued growth.
Steph
Company Specialist
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2021
$70m
SERIES E
Oct 2020
$140m
SERIES D
Total funding: $322m
Company benefits
- Remote-First Work Model
- Company Equity
- Comprehensive Benefits - Including Health, Mental Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance for You and Your Family
- 401k Matching
- Generous Vacation Policy
- Corporate Giving & Volunteering Programs
- Paid Parental Leave
Company values
- We Value People - Everything we do revolves around people
- Care Starts With Connection
- Great Solutions Demand Empathy
- When You Grow, We Grow
- Our Differences Propel Us
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Seth Sternberg
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied at Yale and has an MBA from Stanford. Started out as an M&A Lead at IBM, and co-founded Meebo in 2005. Was a Product Management Director at Google.
Sandy Jen
(Co-Founder)Studied Computer Science at Stanford and co-founded Meebo, acting as its CTO. Was an Engineering Manager at Google, and is also a current Board Member of Ultimate Impact.
Monica Lo
(Co-Founder & Strategy & Operations)Studied at Dartmouth, Stanford and Harvard Kennedy. Was an Associate at A.T. Kearney and Manager of Strategic Initiatives at Safeway.
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