Honor exists to expand the world’s capacity to care.
We’re combining high tech with high-touch to deliver better home care for aging adults, better jobs for Care Professionals, and entirely new offerings to support the aging journey, at scale.
Founded in 2014, and now a Series E funded “Unicorn” valued at over $1B, Honor leads the world’s largest home care network with the most advanced care platform. Our August 2021 acquisition of Home Instead has created a global company that’s revolutionizing how society cares for older adults, their families, and Care Professionals.
The Honor Care Platform combines local care and the most advanced technology to bring the highest quality care to more aging adults.
Grow at Honor as part of a united team where everyone shows up authentically, shares ideas bravely, and solves complex problems!
About the Work:
Honor exists to expand the world’s capacity to care.
We’re combining high tech with high-touch to deliver better home care for aging adults, better jobs for Care Professionals, and entirely new offerings to support the aging journey at scale.
Founded in 2014, and now a Series E funded “Unicorn” valued at over $1B, Honor leads the world’s largest home care network with the most advanced care platform. Our August 2021 acquisition of Home Instead has created a global company that’s revolutionizing how society cares for older adults, their families, and Care Professionals.
The Honor Care Platform combines local care and the most advanced technology to provide more aging adults with the highest quality care.
Grow at Honor as part of a united team where everyone shows up authentically, shares ideas bravely, and solves complex problems!
About the Team & Role:
We seek a seasoned backend engineer with experience designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable distributed systems.
Core Services is one of the important pillars of the platform, with the north star of building the right abstractions for patterns of problems such as Identity & Access Management, Eventing service, Communication Service, Location Service, etc. We build solutions that support other engineering teams and also work on some customer-facing products.
The ideal candidate is driven by providing business value through influence, engagement & adoption of their solutions, is comfortable working with systems at varying maturity levels, and appreciates making nuanced tradeoffs. You will join a small team of highly skilled, enthusiastic, and passionate engineers with an opportunity to create an outsized impact and contribute to the future evolution of Honor’s Care Platform.
What are we looking for in a candidate:
- You thrive in a foundational role supporting diverse, cross-functional teams as your customers, and possess exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills
- You have at least 6 years of professional experience within a product-centric company
- You’ve been a key contributor to the design and implementation of large, complex projects
- You are comfortable working in and refactoring legacy, monolithic code
- You are a strong communicator, both verbally and in writing
- You’ve built and maintained production-grade features in Python or have transferable experience in common languages like Node.js and are willing to learn Python
- You have experience building distributed systems and cloud services like AWS, GCP
- You value leading through influence, have empathy for your customers, and take pride in building solutions that drive impact through enthusiastic adoption
- You have experience defining, instrumenting and measuring standards for quality, security, scalability, and availability with a focus on delivering business value
Some, or all, of these are true:
- You have experience working with an RPC architecture
- You work at or have worked at a technology startup and familiar with the challenges of evolving platform maturity
- You have first hand experience navigating multiple distributed architecture patterns
Perks & benefits:
- Remote-first work model lets you work from anywhere in the U.S. and occasionally pop into a satellite office
- Competitive salary
- Equity in the company
- Comprehensive medical, mental health, dental, vision, and life insurance
- Employer-matched 401(k)
- Flexible PTO (manager approval)
- Diverse environment, with women making up more than half of the company and half of the management team
- Monthly stipend to offset home office expenses
We acknowledge that applying for a new job can be intimidating, and we want to encourage any applicant who may be qualified for the position to apply.
Honor is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, political affiliation or belief.
What’s next?
Honor is remote-friendly! We're hiring across the U.S., with an entirely virtual interview and onboarding process. Most of our positions are remote/work from home and do not require permanent relocation. As conditions allow, we have office space for in-person collaboration in our San Francisco Bay Area, CA, and Austin, TX hubs. If you're looking for a great job that offers you the opportunity to work from home, we'd love to talk to you.
We value people! These four people-centric values guide the ways we work and the decisions we make every day.
This role doesn’t sound quite right? Send this application to a friend who may be a fit and check out our other available roles!
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Preferred Qualifications:
What We Offer:
- A collaborative and inclusive work environment where innovation is encouraged and rewarded.
- Competitive compensation packages, comprehensive health benefits, and a flexible working schedule.
- Opportunities for professional growth and advancement.
How to Apply:
Please submit your resume, a cover letter explaining your suitability for the role, and any relevant project or work samples.
We acknowledge that applying for a new job can be intimidating, and we want to encourage any applicant who may be qualified for the position to apply.
Honor is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, political affiliation or belief.
What’s next?
Honor is remote friendly! We're hiring across the U.S., with an entirely virtual interview and onboarding process. Most of our positions are remote/work from home and do not require permanent relocation. As conditions allow, we have office space for in-person collaboration in our San Francisco Bay Area, CA, Austin, TX, and Omaha, NE hubs. If you're looking for a great job that offers you the opportunity to work from home, we'd love to talk to you.
Want to know more about why Honor is a great place to work? Check out our perks!
We value people! These four people-centric values guide the ways we work and decisions we make every day.
This role doesn’t sound quite right? Send this application to a friend who may be a fit and check out our other available roles!
#LI-Remote
Honor is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, political affiliation or belief.
Honor is an E-Verify company. For more information please review our Participation and your Right to Work