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Description
As we scale we are starting to face scalability, reliability, and performance issues. We need someone who can make these improvements to our codebase, AWS instance, and vendor connections. This could be everything from writing backend code, to changing settings in our AWS instance, to updating how we authenticate with other vendors. It could also include signing up for other products that help capture logs or run audits, hiring security groups to run pen tests on our system, and prepping us for SOC2 compliance.
This role is essentially a combination of:
Infrastructure Engineer
SRE
DevOps
The most exciting parts.
Huge impact. By touching all parts of the tech stack, you will have an impact on every part of the business and customer experience.
Path to future goals. Whether you want to stay with Akute and grow to be a VP or CTO, or you want to start your own company, this experience will put you directly on that career path!
Meaningful equity in a fast-growing startup. As such an early employee, your equity will be significant and provide you with meaningful wealth when we reach scale.
Solve a real problem. Your involvement will help push American healthcare in a direction that is actually sustainable, available to more people, more transparent, and results in better outcomes. This is not about 5% process improvements. It's about wholesale disruption.
About this role
Remote - U.S. only
Full-time. However, we are open to contract work initially with the intent to convert to full-time if both sides are happy.
We are looking for an Entrepreneurial Engineer. You’ll be among our first engineers on this exciting journey and will have the opportunity to take on significant engineering projects, own large parts of the product and grow together with Akute.
You’ll also follow best security practices as outlined by our security policies to ensure protection of health information.
Tech Stack
All javascript
React + Redux client hosted on Netlify
Node + Express server hosted on AWS
Mongo + Mongoose database
About you
Here's how to tell if you'll be a good fit for this job.
Must-haves
You have experience writing IaC, database management, performance monitoring, etc.
You have knowledge of Javascript and the ability to help when needed with backend code.
You have experience with mongodb & postgres
You have experience implementing devops, cicd, and monitoring results
You get excited about helping solve some of the healthcare challenges in America
You're an excellent written and spoken communicator
You're able to work autonomously, without much structure, and still deliver great code on time
Nice-to-haves
You are able to determine trade-offs between "perfect" implementations and time cost
You have experience with AWS infrastructure, specifically EC2 and ELB and how to optimize those
You enjoy wearing many hats and getting into the nitty-gritty of server performance
You have experience Node & Express
You like learning new things quickly
You have experience/understand of data security in web apps
You have worked at early-stage startups before and know the common technical issues we face and how to solve them
Why you might want to work with us
You love early stage saas solutions where you can have a big impact on our product and direction
We're tiny (2 full time, 1 part time), so there are no layers of bureaucracy to work through. You can have a huge impact here.
We rarely have meetings.
You can work remotely, whenever you want, as long as you have substantial overlap with central time zone.
You'll have a front-row seat at an early-stage, YC-backed, fast-growing company. If you hope to start your own thing someday, this will be good preparation.
Why this role may not be a great fit for you
This is a full-time position, but we are still very early stage and thus have no benefits (401k, health insurance, food, office, etc.). PTO will be offered, but in no structured way for now. We will eventually have these, but not for now. (Hopefully soon)
You need structure to perform at your best. While we wi