\nInstnt is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join our team of innovators and engineers.  This role reports directly to the VP, Engineering and works closely with DevOps, Product Design, QA and Data Science.  The Lead Software Engineer is instrumental in the building and maintenance of Instnt’s product focused on the Instnt’s API and backend services.  \n\nDuties and Responsibilities:\n\n\n* Design, code, and troubleshoot new features, while debugging as necessary.\n\n* Write clean code to develop functional APIs and backend services.\n\n* Act as a mentor to fellow Engineers, review code, sharing knowledge and contributing to the team’s continued growth and improvement.\n\n* Working closely with other engineering teams, Data Scientists, Customer success teams and vendors to resolve engineering issues on a timely manner\n\n* Keep current with technology and developments within the financial technology space.\n\n\n\n\nTechnical Skills Required:\n\n\n* Agile SDLC\n\n* Python\n\n* Django\n\n* SQL\n\n* AWS serverless stack - API gateway, lambda, cloudwatch, Cloudformation\n\n* Deep understanding of Serverless architecture (AWS Lambda)\n\n* Container orchestration, docker, kubernetes, AWS ECS, EKS and Fargate\n\n* Clear grasp and implementation knowledge of software qualities like security, simplicity, maintainability, traceability, extensibility, scalability, availability\n\n* Authentication and authorization\n\n* Sound understand of CI/CD process, Python Django dependency management using Poetry\n\n* Good experience in logging and debugging production APIs/services using Python., log management, log analytics\n\n* Good experience in microservices and event driven architecture\n\n* Understanding and experience in api performance tuning, linting, profiling\n\n* Experience in TDD, writing unit tests and functional review of the QA test cases\n\n\n\n\nTechnical Skills Nice to Have: \n\n\n* Knowledge on blockchain, Self sovereign identity / decentralized Identity, Hyperledger Aries\n\n\n\n\nThe Ideal Candidate will possess:\n\n\n* Minimum of 6 year’s experience in a related position\n\n* Ability to create architecture/design specifications from requirement\n\n* Ability to define agile stories, breaking down the high-level product features\n\n* Proven work experience as a Backend Developer\n\n* Excellent analytical and time management skills\n\n* Experience working in a start-up organization is preferred but not required\n\n* Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude\n\n\n\n\nInstnt values our employees and wants you to be healthy and happy! As an employee, you will enjoy a wide range of benefits and perks including:\n\n\n* Culture that values empathy, kindness, teamwork, humor, and direct honesty\n\n* Generous Equity Package\n\n* Full Remote\n\n* Unlimited PTO\n\n* Competitive company paid Maternity / Paternity Leave Policy\n\n* Comprehensive Healthcare plan (medical, dental, & vision)\n\n* Supplemental Ancillary Benefits\n\n* Employee Events\n\n\n\n\nSalary: $140k+ (Salary depends upon several factors, including the applicant’s prior relevant job experience, skill set, and geographic location)\n\nNO PHONE CALLS PLEASE\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer. M/F/H/V \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, Django, API, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $100,000/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\nNew York City, New York, United States

How you will help\nYou will be embedded in a development scrum team to design, document and implement effective test strategies for new and existing features. You will own our testing environment and be the gateway to successful production deployments. You will be expected to work across roles at HealthVerity to ensure quality goals are met. Additional tasks will include reviewing requirements and code, automated testing, test planning and reporting.\n\nWhat you will do\n• Write and carry out end to end automated testing, including functional, performance, regression, and stress testing\n• Refine testing and quality processes, methodologies and performance measurements\n• Confirm and document defects and communicate KPIs with our Product and Development teams\n• Manage and maintain testing environments and build processes, in concert with the System Operations team\n• Create test strategy and implementation plans for development, while ensuring best practices across SDLC\n\nAbout you\n• A curious self-starter with a positive attitude that enjoys working in a rapidly changing, fast paced environment\n• Data-focused, testing and measuring as much as you can\n• Able to take broad feature requirements and turn them into actionable, valuable test plans\n• Organized, with the ability to multitask by using impeccable time management skills\n• Meticulous with attention to detail but are able to see the big picture and focus on high level goals\n\nDesired skills and experience\n• 2+ years of experience writing automated test cases\n• Familiarity with cross browser testing frameworks like Selenium\n• Experience with rapid software and exploratory testing\n• Bonus: Experience with Python or JavaScript\n• Bonus: Knowledge of continuous integration frameworks, such as Jenkins\n\nAbout HealthVerity\nPharmaceutical manufacturers, payers and government organizations have partnered with HealthVerity to solve some of their most complicated use cases through transformative technologies and real-world data infrastructure. The HealthVerity IPGE platform, based on the foundational elements of Identity, Privacy, Governance and Exchange, enables the discovery of RWD across the broadest healthcare data ecosystem, the building of more complete and accurate patient journeys and the ability to power best-in-class analytics and applications with flexibility and ease. Together with our partners, HealthVerity has built the modern way to data for the health insights economy. To learn more about the HealthVerity IPGE platform, visit www.healthverity.com.\n\nOur company challenges\n• Empowering clients with highly rewarding data discovery and licensing tools\n• Ingesting and managing billions of healthcare records from a wide variety of partners\n• Standardizing on common data models across data types\n• Orchestrating an industry-leading HIPAA privacy layer\n• Innovating our proprietary de-identification and data science algorithms\n• Building a culture that supports rapid iteration and new possibilities\n\nWe have big plans\nThe infrastructure and culture we are building will provide an environment that cultivates innovation. We want to move fast knowing we can fix anything we break along the way. If a new need arises, we want to turn around a solution quickly. We want to solve our challenges in ways that create even more possibilities. We’ve created a platform that will scale to support an ever-growing array of data providers and innovative products and services. You must be able to think big while still delivering on near-term requirements.\n\nHealthVerity is an equal opportunity employer devoted to inclusion in the workplace. We believe incorporating different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds make us stronger and encourages an environment where ageism, racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia or any other form of discrimination are not tolerated. At HealthVerity, we’re working towards an innovative and connected future for healthcare data and believe the future is better together. We can only do that if everyone has a seat at the table. Read our Equity Inclusion and Diversity Statement.\n\nIf you require a reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to [email protected]\n\nHealthVerity offers in-office and remote options, so you can work from anywhere within the US! #LI-Remote \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Quality Assurance, Sales, Engineer, Customer Support, Executive and Python jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $117,500/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\nRemote