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Akido Labs (YC W15) is hiring full stack web developers
1 points by jrgoodner 3713 days ago
Lowdown: Akido Labs is looking for a full stack web developer to join an organization with nation-wide hospital access paired with a team of seasoned technologists and healthcare executives to revolutionize how data is used in healthcare.

Akido Labs is a rapidly growing healthcare technology organization built out of Keck Medicine’s Digital Health Lab and backed by Y Combinator. Health care has suffered from a data drought, setting it decades behind other industries. Recently however, the widespread adoption of Electronic Health Records has generated an unprecedented amount of digital health data. Akido Labs is on a mission to unlock the power of this data in order to improve access to quality care consumers across America.

The role: Our engineers are involved in all parts of the product lifecycle: ideation, design, prototyping, planning, execution, and shipping. The full stack web developer will lead development of web applications deployed in health systems across the US. We work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and rely on agile development methodologies, constantly iterating and testing with our end users to ensure that our products have a direct impact on healthcare’s most difficult problems.

What we value: - Highly motivated and innovative individuals who crave challenges and are always looking to continue their personal growth - Passionate people who bring positive energy into their work - A curiosity to learn new technologies and initiative to lead in their implementation - An ability to manage and balance multi-projects - Good communication to healthy discourse and open discussion across the company - Collaboration between team members across Product, Engineering and Sales. - Respect for healthy testing and documentation practices

Technology requirements: - Deep full stack web application development experience - Ruby on Rails (2 years minimum, 5 preferred) - JavaScript with jQuery - HTML5, CSS (SASS), MVC web frameworks, Websockets - Heroku style deployments

Icing on top: - React, Bootstrap - Postgres/MySQL or similar relational databases - IOS/Android app development, Java backend/servlets - API design patterns for performance, accessibility, usability, scalability and security - UI design and perfecting the user flows in UX - Knowledge of Linux environments and scripting

Contact e: careers@akidolabs.com