Lead Software Engineer (RoR Fullstack Engineer)- Faisalabad, Pakistan

ABOUT US 
 
Agnos is a healthcare-focused technology consultancy. We are building solutions that improve the lives of patients and their providers by making empathy central to our design and development. Our partnership with medical practices and other healthcare tech companies has helped raise the bar for product development and service delivery in an industry that is full of untapped opportunities. 

• We work with our clients to revolutionize their industry through engineering, innovation, and design while also advocating for a positive social impact. We are a dynamic, performance-driven, and growth-oriented organization, seeking to attract and retain the industry’s best talent. 

• Our current client is focused on transforming the healthcare experience with the industry’s most modern, flexible, and powerful cloud-based platform to help providers maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of their practices while connecting and collaborating directly with patients in support of better care. This platform serves ambulatory medical practices of all sizes. 

WHAT DOES THIS JOB HOLD FOR YOU?  

• Implement real-time, high-performance web applications for desktop and mobile 

• Architect elegant, maintainable, testable solutions to complex technical problems 

• Integrate with third-party platforms and services to pull in auxiliary content, services, and data 

• Tackle performance bottlenecks and drive improvements to our backend infrastructure 

• Share software development best practices with the team and mentor junior engineers 

 
WHAT DOES THIS JOB HOLD FOR YOU?  

• Implement real-time, high-performance web applications for desktop and mobile. 

• Architect elegant, maintainable, testable solutions to complex technical problems. 

• Integrate with third-party platforms and services to pull in auxiliary content, services, and data. 

• Tackle performance bottlenecks and drive improvements to the backend and frontend infrastructure. 

• Share software development best practices with the team and mentor junior engineers. 

• Play an important role in supporting medical providers with technology, services, and solutions that enhance the care experience. 

• Learn emerging technologies and offer technical direction and creative solutions to business problems. 

• Become a part of a multi-cultural team of over 3000 employees 

WHAT YOU BRING 
 
As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be responsible for leading a team of offshore developers through the agile development lifecycle. You will be working closely with senior stakeholders to understand business requirements and help translate these into technical requirements for the development team. Additionally, you will be mentoring junior team members and ensuring they adhere to determined software quality standards by helping them write testable, scalable and efficient code. 
 
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Build highly interactive web-based application UIs that can scale with application complexity.   

• Work independently and collaboratively with a blended team of onshore and offshore engineers to well-structured, reliable, efficient and easily maintainable code.   

• Gain a deep understanding of the product and business goals which you can translate into technology decisions.  

• Perform code reviews and use continuous integration to deliver high-quality software. 

• Leveraging agile practices, encourage collaboration, prioritization, and urgency to develop at a rapid pace.  

• Identify gaps or deficiencies in the existing product or processes and advocate for the necessary changes to address them. 

• Learn and master new and emerging technologies and take initiative to offer technical direction and creative solutions to business problems  

• Work to ensure that the system meets client’s quality, security, scalability, and performance standards.  

• Bring out-of-the box ideas to improve system performance and stability and collaborate on architectural design decisions. 

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: 

• 7+ years of full stack experience developing performant, scalable, web-based applications, preferably in a SaaS environment, in Ruby on Rails and React. 

• You are comfortable leading and / or managing teams of remote developers.   

• You have delivered and supported commercial, enterprise software.  

• You have extensive full stack development experience and have proficiency in a modern programming language (e.g. Ruby, Java, Typescript).  

• You are goal-oriented, self-motivated and able to be successful in a schedule-driven, fast-paced, dynamic environment.  

• You possess excellent written/verbal communication and presentation skills  

• You're a tinkerer at heart with an innate ability to solve tough programming problems.  

• You have a deep understanding of object-oriented or functional programming design paradigms.   

• You have strong practical experience building RESTful microservices, event-based distributed systems.  

• You have a good understanding of the system architecture, and time-complexity trade-offs 

• You are responsible for production services and mentor others in scalable aspects of Cloud services 

• You have a passion to Innovate and grow. 

• You have significant Experience troubleshooting multi-tiered systems 

• You are well versed in best practices of growing a code base, Competent in REST, and Write performant SQL. 

• You have a formal design knowledge and are aware of design principles like SOLID, agile principles like YAGNI, etc,  

• Deep understanding of infrastructure architecture and how to troubleshoot microservices in production services 

• You are excellent at troubleshooting multi-tiered systems and have worked with observability tools 

• You proactively ask questions for clarification and possess good coding standards. 

• Quickly able to think of different approaches that can be taken during schema design and also provide the pros and cons of each. 

• You have proficiency developing and deploying for cloud platforms like AWS 

• You are highly proficient in written and spoken English. 

Tech Stack: 

• Languages: Ruby, JavaScript / Typescript / ActionScript 

• Frameworks: Ruby On Rails, Sinatra, Adobe Flex, ExpressJS, ReactJS 

• Data: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis, MongoDB, Solr, Elastic Search 

• Cloud Providers: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform 

• Additional Technologies: Kafka, NewRelic, Datadog, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, GitHub, Atlassian 

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU… 

• We are obsessed with always paying the best salaries (or hourly rates) in the industry to our teammates as we are obsessed with the happiness of the people we work with as much as we are our client's happiness and everyone's success. 

• We strongly believe in extending appreciation to our valuable employees via Profit-sharing, Performance bonus, or Commission and equity. 

• Location: Remote, Ability to work from anywhere in the world from the comfort of your home. 

Education: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience). 

BONUS POINTS 

• Prior experience working in the healthcare industry is an added advantage.