About Ro
Ro is the healthcare technology company building a patient-centric healthcare system. Ro’s vertically-integrated primary care platform powers a personalized, end-to-end healthcare experience from diagnosis, to delivery of medication, to ongoing care. With a nationwide provider network, in-home care API, and proprietary pharmacy distribution centers, Ro is the only company to seamlessly connect telehealth and in-home care, diagnostics, and pharmacy services nationwide to provide high-quality, affordable healthcare without the need for insurance. Since 2017, Ro has facilitated more than six million digital healthcare visits in nearly every county in the United States, including 98% of primary care deserts. Ro also provides its patient-centric solutions including Workpath, its in-home care API, and Kit, its at-home diagnostic testing service, to other healthcare companies. Visit Ro.co for more information.
Ro was named #2 in Wellness on Fast Company’s 2019 list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies, listed by Inc. Magazine as a Best Place to Work in 2020 and 2021, and named one of FORTUNE’s 2021 Best Workplaces In Health Care.
As a backend engineer on a team at Ro, you’ll build the products and technology that will enable Ro to expand medical care access to millions of Americans. From enabling patients to seamlessly begin treatment on Ro’s platform to building the products and technology that aim to transform how healthcare is experienced — you’ll be a part of finally putting the patient at the center of healthcare. At Ro you will have the opportunity to do much more than just write code — you’ll be an integral part of the entire product development process, from ideation through delivery and iteration. Your work can impact the lives of our members all across the country as well as our medical, care, and operations teams.
What You’ll Do:
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- Design and build large-scale, distributed, highly available, well-tested, and easily managed applications
- Lead large projects and feature development from idea to positive execution by weighing in your back-end technology domain expertise
- Experience designing and utilizing best practices with RESTful APIs and an API-first mentality
- Create and manage new applications to power new product initiatives, and iterate on web applications within our existing Python/Javascript (Django/React) stack
- Work with a cross-functional team to identify and define features that will solve complex member pain points in a manner that is easy to understand and explain
- Iterate on ideas quickly from brainstorming sessions, through proof of concept towards delivering the final version
- Become deeply familiar with the challenges we’re solving for members and the technical approaches we’ve taken, and push for optimizing those flows from both a UX and infrastructure perspective
- Mentor engineers from both technical and career lenses
- Steer process improvements and technical best practices as we continue to grow our distributed team
- Work on problems that affect the lives of real people – our users depend on us to make positive changes to their health and their lives
What You’ll Bring:
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- 4+ years of engineering experience with a good understanding of how to design robust and scalable services
- A solid background in writing understandable, testable, and efficient code
- Familiarity with relevant tools and technologies, with a drive to stay up-to-date with ongoing changes and advancements
- Clear communication around technical concepts and ideas and the ability to collaborate with engineering and other parts of the organization
Bonus Points:
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- Startup experience
- Familiar with HIPAA
- Familiar with Python and/or Django