Overview
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At Virgin Pulse we value and celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe in creating teams made up of individuals with various backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Why? Because diversity inspires innovation, collaboration, and challenges us to produce better solutions. But more than this, diversity is our strength, and a catalyst in our ability to #changelivesforgood.
Responsibilities
Who are you ?
You are a Software Engineer that independently develops product features, investigates and resolves production issues, and performs in-depth troubleshooting. You can implement complicated product stories with little help from other team members. You are involved in sprint planning and story grooming to give voice to the development complexity of new stories.
In this role you will wear many hats, but your knowledge will be essential in the following:
- Fluency in Kotlin, Java, and/or .NET (or similar)
- Solid understanding of the full software development life cycle
- Outstanding problem-solving skills and a solid grasp of object-oriented programming
- Experience developing services and APIs for web and mobile apps
- Ability to articulate and champion design strategies related to scalability, maintainability, performance, security, and usability
- A solid understanding of best practices for software development including testing, monitoring, and design
- Ability to go beyond the functional solution to build maintainable and well-tested code
- Ability to partner closely with product managers to refine the product
- Strong communication skills, openness to collaborate, and enthusiasm to deliver as a part of a team
- A passion and drive to learn technologies and recommend how to apply them pragmatically
- An ability to lead a technical discussion and the openness to listen and learn from your peers
You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.
Qualifications
What you bring to the Virgin Pulse team:
In Order To Represent The Best Of What We Have To Offer You Come To Us With a Multitude Of Positive Attributes Including
- Experience with Kotlin, Java, and/or .NET (or similar)
- Attention given to your experience with leveraging Kotlin/Java for Android as well as front end experience in a modern UI framework such as Angular, React, or Vue, and Typescript.
- Outstanding problem-solving skills and a solid grasp of object-oriented programming
- Experience developing services and APIs
- A solid understanding of best practices for software development including testing, monitoring, and design
- Ability to articulate and champion design strategies related to scalability, maintainability, performance, security, and usability
- Strong communication skills, openness to collaborate, and enthusiasm to deliver as a part of a team
- A passion and drive for learning technologies and applying them pragmatically
- An ability to contribute to a technical discussion and the openness to listen and learn from your peers
- Unit Testing, and how to write a good unit test
- 2+ years of SW development role
Our technology sets us apart
Our cloud platform is using an exciting mixture of technologies to provide millions of end users with rich experiences in native mobile and responsive browser platforms built in Angular at scale. These highly scalable, reliable applications are supported by a suite of services built on APIs and real-time processors leveraging Spring Framework technologies. Our platforms consume billions of activities, in various forms, which drive our analytics and machine learning platforms. We leverage backend systems, with AWS at their core, which support a diverse set of workloads including Aurora RDS, ElastiCache, SNS/SQS, Kafka, EC2/ECS/EKS, S3, CloudFront, and Personalize. We manage these services with infrastructure as code technologies to ensure consistency and reliability.
Continuous Integration and Deployment is part of our DNA. We structure our applications as microservices and manage each deployment pipeline using containers, GitLab, and Harness. We strive for layered approach to unit, integration, functional tests to allow for lower risk releases at rates 100s of times per day to multiple environments.
You’ll Be Working On a Platform That Serves
- Several million users with nearly 50% use daily
- 75 billion API calls and transactions a year spread across 35 services
- An engaging native mobile platform driving 85% of user traffic
- Hundreds of terabytes of data spread across multiple transactional and analytical stores
Engineers at Virgin Pulse work in small autonomous teams of technical leads, product owners, project managers, designers, and engineers collaborating with each other, across teams, to deliver unique solutions and products to the portfolio. As part of our team, you bring to the table your technical and leadership skills to help us build the latest technology in health and wellness platforms.
Security Competencies
Work to ensure system and data security is maintained at a high standard, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the Virgin Pulse application is not compromised. Ensure industry best practice coding standards are adhered to ensure all code developed at Virgin Pulse is free from bugs and security vulnerabilities, such as those defined and published by OWASP.
Why work at Virgin Pulse?
We believe a career should provide competitive pay and benefits, a collaborative and supportive culture and cutting-edge technology and services. Virgin Pulse is an equal opportunity organization and is committed to diversity, inclusion, equity and social justice. To that end, we make a particular effort to recruit candidates from minoritized backgrounds to apply for open positions.
