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Healthtech, Software, Healthcare IT

Manager of Platform Engineering

Boston, Massachusetts, United StatesHybridFull TimeManager / Head$190,000–$235,000 /yrPosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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### Who you are
- The ideal candidate will be excited to take on the challenge of processing, storing and delivering the entire health records of millions of patients, providing low latency and high-availability for all operations
- You are creative, innovative and love to run experiments to explore the paths to evolve and develop our platform as we scale
- Have had some supervisory experience leading software engineers and are excited for more
- Are experienced in building and running large-scale systems in the cloud
- Are experienced in building services and APIs used by third-party developers
- Have experience with operationally stable and cost efficient data stores
- Enjoy owning complete microservices from the infrastructure up
- Have deep experience building backend software in any language (we use mostly Go)
- Are scrappy and you move fast
- Don't need much handholding, you can be trusted to work independently
- Are excited to ~ finally! ~ enable a true digital revolution in healthcare
- Thrive amid the changing landscape of a growing and evolving startup
- Enjoy collaboration and solving unique problems
- Are in the Boston metro and excited to collaborate in person on a hybrid schedule, or are remote (EST/CST) but willing to travel for in person collaboration occasionally
- Knowledgeable about application security
- Experienced in working with healthcare data and APIs
- Familiar with the FHIR and/or TEFCA standards
- Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don’t apply unless they meet 100% of the job criteria. While we have worked to consolidate the minimum qualifications for each role, we aren’t looking for someone who checks each box on a page; we’re looking for active learners and people who care about disrupting the current healthcare system with their unique experiences

### What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced leader to lead and expand one of our Platform teams
- The Platform team is at the heart of everything at Zus and is responsible for our core data services, including our FHIR data store, Data marts, our Master Patient Index and Authentication and Authorization
- Our work includes building new features to these core systems to support our customers’ and our own applications’ needs along with continually refinding these systems to support the increasing volume of data as we grow
- This is an exciting time to join Zus as we are growing and transforming both the team and our infrastructure to evolve to address the greater scale of data we expect as we grow
- Your team will work on data services that operate on large scale data using a variety of AWS services (ECS Fargate, Lambda, DynamoDB, Postgres, S3, etc) that are used both internally and externally
- Go is our language of choice and we use Terraform for managing our infrastructure-as-code
- The team is responsible for deploying, maintaining, and operating its services
- Lead and mentor a high-performing team of software developers
- Partner with product managers, engineers, AI/ML experts, healthcare providers and the teams which support them to identify and develop platform use cases, and the associated features and fixes needed to support them
- Take ownership for making sure our business critical services remain safely operational for our customers
- Partner with product management in Agile sprint management rituals
- Work hands on as time allows with Zus codebases

### Benefits
- Equity for all employees
- 401K plan - Complete with generous company match
- Excellent care options - Includes medical, dental, and vision
- Work from wherever - Be it from home, our office, or a hybrid of the two
- Flexible PTO - Hitting reset is strongly encouraged
- Zus-sponsored events - Remote employees are 100% included

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