Senior Backend Engineer, Koa Health
+ Bonus
Workplace mental health solutions
Job no longer available
Workplace mental health solutions
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
+ Bonus
21-100 employees
Company mission
Koa Health's mission is to help more people access the care they need to thrive.
Role
Who you are
- In this new role, having deep technical competence and adaptability are of paramount importance. We are seeking a candidate who not only thrives in working across diverse teams and areas but is also comfortable immersing themselves in a specific problem into a product engineering team for extended periods
- Equally crucial is the ability to swiftly transition between different focal points, guided by the strategic direction set by organisational leadership
- Being an extraordinary software engineer with 5+ years of experience
- Comfortable with, and adaptable to, a start-up environment with high levels of ambiguity
- Sense of ownership/accountability for the success of the company
- Motivation for solving customers' problems and delivering value to customers at a fast pace
- Sense of ownership over the technological decisions that make great our products and solutions, collaborate with different product teams, and provide technical guidance to requirements of the business
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximise development efficiency, customer satisfaction and business value
- A proven record of working with cloud-based architectures and delivering software solutions to customers is a big plus
- Defining, designing and owning API contracts made for internal and external stakeholders
- Quickly create prototypes and integrate existing systems
- Provide technical expertise to clients and clearly communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Be able to understand our technical stack, products and solutions and propose continuous improvements
- Understanding of AWS, Serverless architectures and Amazon’s development ecosystem is a big plus
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing systems in mobile and web apps is a great plus
- Familiarity with most of our tech stack including NodeJS + TypeScript for the backend running on a Kubernetes infrastructure in the Cloud. Angular or React front-end for web and/or Flutter/Dart for mobile devices are big pluses
- Experience dealing with service integrations and market adaptations
- Specialist in Cloud services, AWS most desired, with a proven track record of designing and delivering scalable, resilient and cost-effective solutions
- Able to deliver on time, on budget and on scope and experience on managed services and integration solutions is a plus
- Hands-on experience integrating OAuth2 OIDC and SAML2
- Experience with Infrastructure as code (Terraform), automation, CI/CD is a plus
- Experience with other coding languages (like Python, Go) is a plus
- Experience with integration and end-to-end tests is a plus
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
What the job involves
- We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Backend Engineer to drive our backend services and the integration of new services into our platform. In this role, you will play a key role in defining, developing, and maintaining both mobile and web applications as well as their corresponding backends
- Contribute to the development, improving and customising our current systems used in the activation of new clients in collaboration with our commercial teams
- Developing rapid prototypes and proof-of-concepts to unblock business discussions, then handing them over in a good state for integration with the product backlog
- Take responsibility for designing, implementing, customising, and evolving the overall structure of backend systems to ensure scalability, resiliency, and maintainability
- Oversee database design, API development, server-side logic, and optimisation. Select appropriate technologies for backend infrastructure, prioritising performance and industry best practices
- Contribute to align backend architecture with overall technology goals
- Focus on designing scalable systems capable of handling increased loads and performance requirements
- Participate proactively in team technical meetings and discussions
- Implement new features for any of our products, refactors and fixes and reason about the solution adopted
- Support the definition of integration and end-to-end tests for components and modules
- Architect technical solutions based on our product portfolio, integrating and developing new components and services to activate customers
- Write comprehensive technical documentation
- Work independently and as a team, participating in code reviews
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Koa Health aims to offer high-quality mental healthcare to people across the globe. It does so by creating comprehensive, personalised and ethical prevention-to-cure solutions using scientific evidence. It has a team of researchers, commercial leads, designers, and engineers, and works with academics and doctors to deliver the best quality products to those in need.
Its first product, Foundations, is an app that helps people to deal with stress and build resilience through wellness activities based on mindfulness, CBT, and positive psychology. Its second product, Mindset, is designed to help users with depression to better understand their mental state and is a secure, HIPAA-compliant program. These products are made available through workplace benefits schemes, partnerships with mental health providers or integrated into the services offered by its health plan business customers.
After the success of these products, Koa Health is currently developing two further clinical products, Foresight and Perspectives, which will expand the diagnoses that Koa can support. Its solutions are now available through Virgin Pulse following the companies' partnership, which will enable Koa to reach new markets. Its recent integration into International SOS's services will futher boost its reach.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
37% female employees
-24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2021
$17.3m
SERIES A
Nov 2020
$15.3m
SERIES A
Total funding: $32.6m
Company benefits
- Health & Life Insurance
- Pension Plan
- Employee Share Incentive Plan
- Food & Wellbeing Allowances
- Holidays & Wellbeing Days
- Flexible Working
- Company Bonus Scheme
Company values
- Passionate about our work
- Impactful in what we do
- Collaborative with others
- Honest with ourselves and with others
- Caring about each other
- Focused on our users
Company HQ
El Parc i la Llacuna del Poblenou, Barcelona, Spain
Articles
Founders
Oliver Harrison
(CEO)MA in Medicine and Neuroscience at Cambridge. Extensive experience in healthcare, policy, and consulting. Founded Alpha Health in February 2016 alongside working for the NHS, which rebranded to Koa Health in 2020.
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Diversity & Inclusion at Koa Health
Sonia Calzada (VP of Talent Acquisition)
- Koa Health is committed to workplace diversity and to cultivating, fostering and preserving a culture of inclusion. We believe that bringing our diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives together is the way to solve today’s complex health problems in a booming digital era
- Our goal is to create a culture and environment where our people feel empowered to do their best work whilst being their authentic selves. We commit to creating an inclusive environment where we recognise the rights of all individuals to mutual respect and where there is an unbiased acceptance of others.
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