Fullstack developer - Ruby on Rails

Teladoc Health is a global, whole person care company made up of a diverse community of people dedicated to transforming the healthcare experience. As an employee, you’re empowered to show up every day as your most authentic self and be a part of something bigger – thriving both personally and professionally. Together, let’s empower people everywhere to live their healthiest lives.

Summary of Position

The Senior, Software Engineer is responsible for architecting, designing, and developing custom solutions to provide scalable, reliable, and secure solutions adhering to software development lifecycle. This role performs peer code reviews, coordinates production releases with product owner and stakeholders within the organization. This position provides timely updates to the direct manager regarding team's progress. The Senior Software Engineer is a standard bearer on the team’s development, maintenance, design patterns, and culture. This may include forming development standards, creating internal presentations on best practices, tutorials and pair programming with developers getting comfortable with the language.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Understands and works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
• Exercises judgment in selecting methods, evaluating, adapting of complex techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Frequently advises others on complex matters.
• Design, build and implement high quality software solutions.
• Establish technical decisions and direction for one or many projects/teams. 
• Appropriately manage team demands and delegate technical execution or responsibilities when appropriate. 
• Direct technical aspect of operations related to escalated client accounts or high severity issues as they affect or confront a project or team.
• Attend to both business and technical considerations when designing solutions to project/team or company related issues. 
• Actively work to improve the company’s technical awareness, depth, and use of technology across the business while establishing and maintaining positive and effective working relationships. 
• Participate in the evolution of company-level best practices, standards, and policies as it related to software development.
• Provide leadership/mentorship as it relates to emerging technologies and prepare Teladoc Health and engineers for productively integrating the same into business.

The time spent on each responsibility reflects an estimate and is subject to change dependent on business needs.

Qualifications Expected for Position

• Bachelor's degree in a related field. In lieu of a Bachelor’s degree, an equivalent combination of education and experience is accepted.
• 8+ years' experience with Ruby and Rails
• Strong Experience with React.JS
• Experience writing software in one or more technical languages.
• Experience with SQL, MySQL, or similar relational database systems.
• Effective written and verbal communicator.  
• Experience with Test-Driven Development and writing unit and integration tests. 
• Experience using Behavior-Driven Development suite.
• Comfortable working in a cloud environment. 
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery systems.
• Applies best practices including design patterns and linting to all software development. 
• Stays well-informed of emerging technologies and software trends. 
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process preferred. 

Required license or credential needed to perform job: N/A

The above qualifications, knowledge, experience, and/or background are expected but not required for this role.

Physical Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.  Teladoc Health will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual in line with company policy.

About Us

Teladoc Health is the global virtual care leader, offering the only comprehensive virtual care solution spanning telehealth, expert medical, and licensed platform services. Teladoc Health serves the world's leading insurers, employers, and health systems and helps millions of people around the world resolve their healthcare needs with confidence.

Job Description Acknowledgment

This job description is a general overview of nature and level of work performed by employees with this job designation It is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of this position.  Management reserves the right to add, delete, and/or modify any of the job duties or requirements at any time.  I acknowledge that I have read and understand the above job description. By signing this job description, I understand the duties that are expected of me.

Why Join Teladoc Health?

A New Category in Healthcare:  Teladoc Health is transforming the healthcare experience and empowering people everywhere to live healthier lives.  

Our Work Truly Matters: Recognized as the world leader in whole-person virtual care, Teladoc Health uses proprietary health signals and personalized interactions to drive better health outcomes across the full continuum of care, at every stage in a person’s health journey.  

Make an Impact: In more than 175 countries and ranked Best in KLAS for Virtual Care Platforms in 2020, Teladoc Health leverages more than a decade of expertise and data-driven insights to meet the growing virtual care needs of consumers and healthcare professionals.  

Focus on PEOPLE:  Teladoc Health has been recognized as a top employer by numerous media and professional organizations. Talented, passionate individuals make the difference, in this fast-moving, collaborative, and inspiring environment. 

Diversity and Inclusion:  At Teladoc Health we believe that personal and professional diversity is the key to innovation. We hire based solely on your strengths and qualifications, and the way in which those strengths can directly contribute to your success in your new position.  

Growth and Innovation:  We’ve already made healthcare yet remain on the threshold of very big things. Come grow with us and support our mission to make a tangible difference in the lives of our Members.  

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we never have and never will discriminate against any job candidate or employee due to age, race, religion, color, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, membership in an employee organization, medical condition, family history, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, parental status or pregnancy.