\nAbout BLEN\nBLENers are passionate about using technology to solve real-world problems. For over 20 years, we've been helping government agencies and businesses transform their digital experience. We bring fresh perspectives to every project, from modernizing legacy systems to building cloud-native applications to experimenting with technology that’s just around the corner. We value building long and enduring partnerships to solve complex challenges by putting humans at the center of all the experiences. Our team thrives on turning tricky problems into solutions that are practical, accessible and performant.\n\n\nAbout this position\nAs a Senior Software Developer II - Full Stack at BLEN, you will take on a highly strategic role in designing, architecting, and developing scalable, robust digital solutions. This role demands a combination of deep technical expertise in both front-end and back-end technologies and the ability to collaborate closely with tech leads and sometimes take on tech lead responsibilities. You will be expected to think strategically, mentor team members, and deliver high-impact solutions while embracing ownership and accountability. In addition, this position requires a strong background in cloud services, system architecture, AI toolings, and an eagerness to innovate by building prototypes and transforming proof of concepts into production-ready features\n\n\n\nWhat we would like from you\n* Technical Leadership and Strategy\n* Collaborate closely with the tech lead, taking responsibility for the system's architecture and development strategy\n* Step in as the acting Tech Lead when required, making key technical decisions that ensure alignment with overall product and business goals\n* Design and implement scalable, efficient, and maintainable systems and architectures\n* Work on building prototypes and proof of concepts that later become major production features\n\n\n\n* Software Development and Problem-Solving\n* Leverage extensive full-stack development experience to lead high-complexity, outcome-driven projects\n* Proactively diagnose and solve architectural and technical issues, driving quality improvements in existing systems\n* Work hands-on with modern tech stacks, including advanced usage of cloud platforms, ensuring scalable system designs\n* Actively contribute to the development and deployment of AI-driven solutions and applications\n\n\n\n* Mentorship and Team Development\n* Mentor and support junior engineers, focusing on transferring skills in system design, cloud services, and AI technologies\n* Provide technical guidance across teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation\n* Engage in technical interviews, assessing candidates' skills and cultural fit\n\n\n\n* Communication and Stakeholder Engagement\n* Present design documents, architecture diagrams, and technical solutions to clients, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams\n* Communicate technical strategies and developments effectively across the team and external partners\n\n\n\n* Process Improvement and Innovation\n* Drive improvements in software development processes and practices, with a focus on high performance and scalability\n* Champion best practices in system design, architecture, cloud services, and AI development\n* Stay up to date with emerging technologies and trends in AI and cloud computing, applying this knowledge to drive innovation in the organization\n\n\n\nBasic qualifications\n* Essential Requirements\n* 10+ years of engineering experience, with a proven track record of designing and developing scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems and architectures\n* Extensive experience with full stack development using Python, React, Next.js, Node.js, Java or Ruby on Rails\n* Hands-on experience with Python and AI toolings, including familiarity with large language models (LLMs) and other modern AI frameworks\n* Strong expertise in containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, ensuring systems are scalable and maintainable in a cloud-native environment\n* Experience working with both relational databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL databases like Firestore, MongoDB, ensuring effective database design, optimization, and scalability\n* Hands-on experience integrating external APIs and third-party services into applications\n* Strong cloud services management and configuration skills with AWS, Azure, or GCP, leveraging these platforms for high availability, scalability, and security\n* Proficiency in version control systems (e.g., Git), and experience managing large, complex codebases\n* Robust problem-solving skills, particularly in diagnosing and resolving complex system issues related to distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and application performance\n* \n\n* Preferred Skills and Experience\n* Prior experience leading engineering teams or acting as a Tech Lead\n* Experience building AI applications and their underlying infrastructure\n* Familiarity with DevOps tools and best practices\n* Ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance\n\n\n\nRequirement\n* Must be a US Citizen or legal resident and able to work domestically\n* Must be located in the United States\n* Must be able to attain low-level security clearance\n\n\n\nPerks\n* Work from anywhere.\n* Competitive pay.\n* A contribution to your health benefit.\n* The chance to work on high-visibility projects and make a significant impact.\n\n\n\nGet to know us\n* We are a small, creative and highly technical team.\n* Our heroes are the scrappy folks that dare to dream and do great things. We love people that care more about doing the right thing than taking a shortcut.\n* We believe in finishing projects and floor our clients by how much we cared about their project.\n* We believe in integrity and because we're small, we are very selective of our partners and clients.\n* We do not use phrases like 'human resource' because you are NOT a resource. You are a team member and we will treat you like one.\n\n\n\nWhat you should expect from us\n* We will treat you fairly.\n* We give you space to grow both personally and professionally.\n* We will hear your ideas even when we disagree -- especially when we disagree.\n* We will be equitable with our success and be honest with our challenges.\n* We will always tell you the truth. Even when the truth is difficult.\n\n\n\nBLEN's hiring process\n* Resume Review: Our team evaluates your resume and online profiles (LinkedIn, GitHub, etc.) to assess qualification fit.\n* Role-Specific Assessment (depending on role, due in 24 - 48 hours): Complete a take-home assignment or live coding session to demonstrate technical skills. For this role, this will be the assessment: https://github.com/blencorp/blen-fullstack-engineer-take-home\n* Hiring Manager Screen (30 mins): Dive deeper into your experience and the role with the hiring manager.\n* Virtual Interviews (2 rounds, 30-45 min each): Technical and competency-based interviews aligned with Blen's values, conducted via Google Meet.\n* Decision & Offer: Post-interview, the hiring team decides. If selected, your recruiter will extend an offer and assist with logistics.\n\n\n\n\n\n$135,000 - $170,000 a yearThe salary range represents the compensation we expect to offer candidates who can perform the core responsibilities with minimal additional training. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as skill set, level of experience, and scope of responsibility. Our recruitment team is available to discuss your specific salary requirements and to provide more information about how we determine compensation. We are committed to fair and transparent pay practices and encourage open dialogue about our compensation structure throughout the application process. We look forward to learning more about your qualifications and how they align with our framework.\nEqual Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities\nThe contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c).\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Python, Docker, DevOps, Java, Cloud, Ruby and Senior jobs that are similar:\n\n $52,500 — $95,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWashington, DC

Who You Are\n\nWe are looking for a driven Software Engineer (MLOps) to be a part of our growing AI Platform team. You are bold and creative, and have deep empathy for customers who may not be tech-savvy. You will design and implement significant parts of the code base and will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact with your work and guide the product and team as we grow.\n\nYou are curious and like to understand technologies and their tradeoffs in depth - providing technical guidance to the team and peers as and when required. Leading by example, you have accumulated a wealth of insights and experiences from your hands-on involvement in the field, and you are committed to rolling up your sleeves and getting work done. You like joining and supporting other engineers in their work to learn from them as well as letting them benefit from your expertise and experience.\n\nYou have the motivation and skills to identify technical product needs, initiate projects and owning their delivery, including the involvement of engineering peers as needed. You are comfortable with challenging the status quo respectfully to drive and deliver technical excellence in the team.\n\n**We are seeking a team member located within one of the following areas: USA/Canada/UK\nResponsibilities\n\nThe AI Platform team you are joining is responsible for building the core platform that powers model training, inference and decision making in our products. Furthermore the team owns MLOps and the services hosting our AI capabilities. Productionizing results from Research, as well as extending our systems and providing support according to our customer needs fall into team responsibilities as well. You will join this team as an experienced engineer with a focus on MLOps solutions to grow our expertise in that area, but also contribute as a software engineer more widely in the team.\n\nAs an organization, we strongly believe in expertise across the stack. As such, you will experience flavors of Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, MLOps and DevOps.\n\nIn particular, you will:\n\n\n* Design, build and lead the MLOps initiatives and vision for the AI Platform to strengthen automation, orchestration, versioning, observability, monitoring and collaboration for the platform.\n\n* Build and design scalable components for the AI Platform to allow high throughput training and inference for RL agents doing realtime inference for autonomous control of industrial systems.\n\n* Contribute to the design and implementation of the product backend by writing REST & gRPC API services and scalable event-driven backend applications.\n\n* Design clear, extensible software interfaces for the team's customers and maintain a high release quality bar.\n\n* Design and optimize data storage & retrieval mechanisms for high throughput, security & ease of access.\n\n* Perform DevOps duties of CI/CD, Release & Deployment management.\n\n* Be a part of our global production oncall team and, own & operate your services in production, meeting Phaidra’s high bar for operational excellence.\n\n* Lead cross-functional initiatives collaborating with engineers, product managers and TPM across teams.\n\n* Mentor your peers and be a technical role-model in the team.\n\n\n\nOnboarding\n\nIn your first 30 days…\n\n\n* You will be immersed in an onboarding program that introduces you to Phaidra and our product.\n\n* You will spend time in the Engineering org, learning how the teams operate, interact, and approach problems.\n\n* You will read various parts of our handbook and familiarize yourself with the documentation culture at Phaidra.\n\n* You will set up your development environment and start working on an onboarding exercise that will introduce you to various parts of our code base.\n\n* You will learn about how we use agile and be able to navigate our sprint boards and backlogs.\n\n* You will learn about various team standards and development & release processes.\n\n* You will start to learn about our system architecture and infrastructure.\n\n* You will start picking up few good “first-tasks” to get yourself accustomed to the end to end release flow.\n\n\n\n\nIn your first 60 days…\n\n\n* You will get a solid understanding of what Phaidra does and how we do it.\n\n* You will meet with team members across Phaidra and started building relationships that will help you be successful at your job.\n\n* You will complete the onboarding exercise and will be on your way to completing your first production task.\n\n* You will take ownership for the MLOps work on the team, identify gaps and propose roadmap items on the topic.\n\n\n\n\nIn your first 90 days…\n\n\n* You will be fully integrated in the team and with team members across the company.\n\n* You will have a more in-depth understanding of our system architecture and infrastructure.\n\n* You will complete your first on-call experience helping monitor and improve our production environments.\n\n* You will become an expert with our tooling.\n\n* You will start to contribute to knowledge sharing throughout Phaidra and the team.\n\n* You will take proactively drive MLOps topics in the team and represent it technically throughout the company.\n\n\n\nKey Qualifications\n\n\n* 7+ years of work experience.\n\n* Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.\n\n* Strong experience on designing and implementing MLOps solutions for AI production systems\n\n* Expertise with production Software Engineering - relational and non-relational data modelling, micro-services, understanding of event driven systems, etc.\n\n* Strong experience building large scale multi-tenant systems with high availability, fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring, and statistics/metrics collection.\n\n* Strong expertise in Python and Cloud environments\n\n* Good grasp of Machine Learning (especially Deep Learning) fundamentals.\n\n* Ability to collaborate and communicate effectively in an all-remote setting\n\n* Doing your work with curiosity, ownership, transparency & directness, outcome orientation, and customer empathy.\n\n\n\nBonus\n\n\n* Experience as a service owner of a realtime production system - operating & monitoring services in production, including using observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Tempo or equivalent offerings and incident management.\n\n* Experience with building applications that can be deployed in cloud, hybrid or on prem environments\n\n* Exposure to Reinforcement Learning\n\n\n\nOur Stack\n\n\n* Languages - (Backend) Python, Go; (Frontend) JavaScript/TypeScript, React; Customer SDK & Clients - C# .NET\n\n* PyTorch\n\n* Cypress\n\n* Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform & Kapitan\n\n* Gitlab CI, ArgoCD, Atlantis, Vercel\n\n* GCP - GKE, PubSub, CloudSQL, BigTable, Postgres, etc.\n\n* Ray.io\n\n* REST & gRPC micro-services\n\n* Poetry, Pantsbuild\n\n\n\nGeneral Interview Process\n\nAll of our interviews are held via Google Meet, and an active camera connection is required.\n\n* Initial screening interview with a People Operations team member (30 minutes): The purpose of this interview is to meet you, learn more about your background, and discuss what you are looking for in a new position.\n\n* Hiring manager interview (30 minutes): The purpose of this meeting is for you to get to know the manager for the role. This chat will mainly focus on your previous experience and technical background. You can expect to talk about projects that you have worked on in the past and ask any questions about the team & role.\n\n* Technical Interview 1 (60 minutes): The purpose of this interview is to assess your skills in Machine Learning and related mathematics.\n\n* Technical Interview 2 (90 minutes): In this interview, we will go over a real world MLOps problem. You can expect to draw architecture diagrams using boxes & arrows in your browser. We will talk about system design, scalability and monitoring.\n\n* Meeting with VP of Engineering (30 minutes): This interview is a combination of technical and cultural fit assessment. You will cover the technical experience and the skills that you brinand have an opportunity to ask any questions about the team’s culture or vision.\n\n* Culture fit interview with Phaidra’s co-founders (30 minutes): This interview focuses on alignment with Phaidra’s values\n\n\nBase Salary\n\nUS Residents: $115,200-$208,800/year\n\nUK Residents: £96,400-£144,000/year\n\nThis position will also include equity.\n\nThese are best faith estimates of the base salary range for this position. Multiple factors such as experience, education, level, and location are taken into account when determining compensation. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Python, DevOps, Cloud, API, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSeattle, Washington, United States

\nMemora Health works with leading healthcare organizations to make complex care journeys simple for patients and clinicians so that care is more accessible, actionable, and always-on. Our team is rapidly growing as we expand our programs to reach more health systems and patients, and we are excited to bring on a Senior Data Engineer. \n\nIn this role, you will have the responsibility of driving the architecture, design and development of our data warehouse and analytics solutions, alongside APIs that allow other internal teams to interact with our data. The ideal candidate will be able to collaborate effectively with Memora’s Product Management, Engineering, QA, TechOps and business stakeholders.\n\nThis role will work closely with the cross-functional teams to understand customer pain points and identify, prioritize, and implement maintainable solutions. Ideal candidates will be driven not only by the problem we are solving but also by the innovative approach and technology that we are applying to healthcare - looking to make a significant impact on healthcare delivery. We’re looking for someone with exceptional curiosity and enthusiasm for solving hard problems.\n\n Primary Responsibilities:\n\n\n* Collaborate with Technical Lead, fellow engineers, Product Managers, QA, and TechOps to develop, test, secure, iterate, and scale complex data infrastructure, data models, data pipelines, APIs and application backend functionality.\n\n* Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand customer pain points and identify, prioritize, and implement maintainable solutions\n\n* Promote product development best practices, supportability, and code quality, both through leading by example and through mentoring other software engineers\n\n* Manage and pare back technical debts and escalate to Technical Lead and Engineering Manager as needed\n\n* Establish best practices designing, building and maintaining data models.\n\n* Design and develop data models and transformation layers to support reporting, analytics and AI/ML capabilities.\n\n* Develop and maintain solutions to enable self-serve reporting and analytics.\n\n* Build robust, performant ETL/ELT data pipelines.\n\n* Develop data quality monitoring solutions to increase data quality standards and metrics accuracy.\n\n\n\n\nQualifications (Required):\n\n\n* 3+ years experience in shipping, maintaining, and supporting enterprise-grade software products\n\n* 3+ years of data warehousing / analytics engineering\n\n* 3+ years of data modeling experience\n\n* Disciplined in writing readable, testable, and supportable code in JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js (Express), Python (Flask, Django, or FastAPI), or Java.\n\n* Expertise writing, and consuming RESTful APIs\n\n* Experience with relational or NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, etc.)\n\n* Experience with Data Warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, etc.)\n\n* Experience with analytical and reporting tools, such as Looker or Tableau\n\n* Inclination toward test-driven development and test automation\n\n* Experience with scrum methodology\n\n* Excels in mentoring junior engineers\n\n* B.S. in Computer Science or other quantitative fields or related work experience\n\n\n\n\nQualifications (Bonus):\n\n\n* Understanding of DevOps practices and technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, CI / CD, test coverage and automation, branch and release management)\n\n* Experience with security tooling in SDLC and Security by Design principles\n\n* Experience with observability and APM tooling (Sumo Logic, Splunk, Sentry, New Relic, Datadog, etc.)\n\n* Experience with an integration framework (Mirth Connect, Mule ESB, Apache Nifi, Boomi, etc..)\n\n* Experience with healthcare data interoperability frameworks (FHIR, HL7, CCDA, etc.)\n\n* Experience with healthcare data sources (EHRs, Claims, etc.)\n\n* Experience working at a startup\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat You Get:\n\n\n* An opportunity to work on a rapidly scaling care delivery platform, engaging thousands of patients and care team members and growing 2-3x annually\n\n* Enter a highly collaborative environment and work on the fun challenges of scaling a high-growth startup\n\n* Work alongside world-class clinical, operational, and technical teams to build and scale Memora\n\n* Shape how leading health systems and plans think about modernizing the care delivery experience for their patients and care teams\n\n* Improve the way care is delivered for hundreds of thousands of patients\n\n* Gain deep expertise about healthcare transformation and direct customer exposure with the country’s most innovative health systems and plans\n\n* Ownership over your success and the ability to significantly impact the growth of our company\n\n* Competitive salary and equity compensation with benefits including health, dental, and vision coverage, flexible work hours, paid maternity/paternity leave, bi-annual retreats, Macbook, and a 401(k) plan\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Python, DevOps, NoSQL, Senior, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n