August Health |  Frontend Engineer | Distributed team (USA-based) | Full-time
### ABOUT US
August Health is an early-stage company that builds technology to enhance quality of care for vulnerable older adults. Our product is guiding the transition from complex, paper-based practices in the long-term care industry to a digital platform solution that unlocks the power of personalized care, predictive analytics, and value-based contracting.
### ABOUT THE JOB
We're looking for an experienced frontend developer to join us, especially someone with several years of experience building and shipping complex, consumer-facing applications.
- Technologies we use &amp; expect you to have significant experience in: React, TypeScript.
- Technologies we use, but don't expect you to have experience in: Scala, Play Framework, Protobuf, Postgres
Our development team is a small group of capable engineers and we like to balance building thoughtfully with getting things shipped. The position offers the opportunity to deeply understand our problem space and channel compassion for the experiences of older adults into building a mission-driven, elegant, and intuitive product.
### KEY QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years professional experience as a software engineer familiar with building customer facing frontends
- Ability and desire to mentor other engineers
- Ability to thrive in a startup environment that’s full of ambiguity - experience balancing tradeoffs to make complex decisions where there is no ‘right’ answer
- Good communication and personal skills; ability to interact and work well with the team
- Interest in development of company culture and its reflection in our engineering practices
### ABOUT OUR TEAM
Our team of seven has technical, healthcare and company-building backgrounds. We have prior experience at companies like Apple, Google, Landmark Health, and Adobe. Together, we’ve co-founded and exited multiple companies, managed large engineering and product teams, shipped features used by hundreds of millions of users, and led clinical teams supporting thousands of patients. We are funded by a group of top tier Silicon Valley investors and are working with some of the largest senior care organizations in the Bay Area.
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