Lead Software Engineer (Full-stack) -Lahore

This job opportunity is for an Agnos Healthcare Client listed in Deloitte’s 2021 Technology Fast 500 companies.

ABOUT US

Agnos is a healthcare-focused technology consultancy. We are building solutions that improve the lives of patients and their providers by making empathy central to our design and development. Our partnership with medical practices and other healthcare tech companies has helped raise the bar for product development and service delivery in an industry that is full of untapped opportunities.

One of the services that we provide our clients is Recruiting as a Service where we help our clients create job descriptions, find awesome candidates for these jobs, interview these candidates with our world-class Subject Matter Experts, and then help with hiring and onboarding of the new employees that we helped our client find.

ABOUT THE CLIENT THAT YOU WOULD BE WORKING FOR

Our client is one of the leading healthcare technology companies in the world with a comprehensive suite of proprietary, cloud-based solutions for growing healthcare organizations.

They have been dedicated for years to building apps that empower Healthcare providers to optimize healthcare delivery, reduce operational expenses, increase collections, improve the patient experience, and expand patient access to care. The software is used to serve thousands of clients and millions of patients across all 50 states.

WHAT DOES THIS JOB HOLD FOR YOU? 
 

• Implement real-time, high-performance web applications for desktop and mobile.
• Architect elegant, maintainable, testable solutions to complex technical problems.
• Integrate with third-party platforms and services to pull in auxiliary content, services, and data.
• Tackle performance bottlenecks and drive improvements to the backend and frontend infrastructure.
• Share software development best practices with the team and mentor junior engineers.
• Play an important role in supporting medical providers with technology, services, and solutions that enhance the care experience.
• Learn emerging technologies and offer technical direction and creative solutions to business problems.
• Become a part of a multi-cultural team of over 3000 employees

WHAT YOU BRING

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be responsible for leading a team of offshore developers through the agile development lifecycle. You will be working closely with senior stakeholders to understand business requirements and help translate these into technical requirements for the development team. Additionally, you will be mentoring junior team members and ensuring they adhere to determined software quality standards by helping them write testable, scalable and efficient code.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Build highly interactive web-based application UIs that can scale with application complexity.  
• Work independently and collaboratively with a blended team of onshore and offshore engineers to well-structured, reliable, efficient and easily maintainable code.  
• Gain a deep understanding of the product and business goals which you can translate into technology decisions. 
• Perform code reviews and use continuous integration to deliver high-quality software.
• Leveraging agile practices, encourage collaboration, prioritization, and urgency to develop at a rapid pace. 
• Identify gaps or deficiencies in the existing product or processes and advocate for the necessary changes to address them.
• Learn and master new and emerging technologies and take initiative to offer technical direction and creative solutions to business problems 
• Work to ensure that the system meets client’s quality, security, scalability, and performance standards. 
• Bring out-of-the box ideas to improve system performance and stability and collaborate on architectural design decisions.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• 7+ years of full stack experience developing performant, scalable, web-based applications, preferably in a SaaS environment, in Ruby on Rails and React.
• You are comfortable leading and / or managing teams of remote developers.  
• You have delivered and supported commercial, enterprise software. 
• You have extensive full stack development experience and have proficiency in a modern programming language (e.g. Ruby, Java, Typescript). 
• You are goal-oriented, self-motivated and able to be successful in a schedule-driven, fast-paced, dynamic environment. 
• You possess excellent written/verbal communication and presentation skills 
• You're a tinkerer at heart with an innate ability to solve tough programming problems. 
• You have a deep understanding of object-oriented or functional programming design paradigms.  
• You have strong practical experience building RESTful microservices, event-based distributed systems. 
• You have proficiency developing and deploying for cloud platforms like AWS
• You are highly proficient in written and spoken English.

Tech Stack:

• Languages: Ruby, JavaScript / Typescript / ActionScript
• Frameworks: Ruby On Rails, Sinatra, Adobe Flex, ExpressJS, ReactJS
• Data: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, MongoDB, Solr, Elastic Search
• Cloud Providers: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform
• Additional Technologies: Kafka, NewRelic, Datadog, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, GitHub, Atlassian

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).

BONUS POINTS
 

• Prior experience working in the healthcare industry is an added advantage.