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Form of work About Beam
Beam was founded in 2012 by three engineers who saw the opportunity to modernize the dental benefits industry using technology. The first product was the Beam Brush, which was one of the earliest examples of the Internet of Things in healthcare.
Today, Beam Benefits is available in 40+ states and has expanded beyond dental. Beam is now simplifying and modernizing a robust suite of ancillary employee benefits through an intuitive digital platform, self-service tools, AI-powered pricing, support from Beam's helpful representatives, and a unique Beam Perks rewards program. This winning combination allows us to deliver a simple, smart, and wellness-focused experience for brokers, employers, and members.
Joining Beam Benefits Means
Working in a complex and dynamic business, simultaneously operating across insurance, CPG manufacturing, IoT, and dental services
Being supported and encouraged to improve every day by working collaboratively with a diversely skilled team
Engaging in an energizing, committed, and fun work environment
Being empowered as an 'owner' of your subject matter and work
Joining in our mission to forever change the way people access benefit
Being a person of high character, high EQ, and amazing talent
What We're Looking For:
We are looking for a Lead Engineer to provide a significant capacity boost to the software team that is responsible for the quoting phase of all new ancillary initiatives, which are at the forefront of many of Beam's goals to modernize employee benefits. The Lead Software Engineer of this team will help shape team/project goals and priorities to ensure they're delivering value for the business as well as acting as a high-level individual contributor to the projects this team is responsible for.
What You Will Bring:
- An ability to write production-ready code that is easily testable, easily understood by other developers, and accounts for edge cases and errors.
- An understanding and ability to make well-reasoned design decisions and tradeoffs in their area; ability to work in other areas of the codebase with guidance.
- Tenacity in the face of roadblocks and dispatches them efficiently, pulling in others as necessary. Requires minimal direction/oversight. Actively helps teammates unblock their work.
- Effective communication that helps foster a culture of delivering praise and constructive feedback within the team and the team's respective business stakeholders.
- Ability to work cross-functionally well with Product, Design, Operations, and Sales as necessary.
- Ability to facilitate team discussions, including helping others approach constructive conflict with a "strong opinions held loosely" approach.
- History of leading projects within a team with a high rate of success.
- Strong Mentorship experience and ability to foster meaningful relationships in and across your team.
- Ability to identify problems with the team and process, investigate potential causes, work with the team to propose solutions/next steps, and make sure the fixes are prioritized and completed.
What You Will Do:
- Collaborate closely with senior leadership to set, promote, and execute the organization's architectural roadmap.
- Partner with senior leadership to align the architectural roadmap with the overall product strategy.
- Serve as a technology stakeholder in large cross-functional initiatives.
- Build POCs of new technologies and features to test their viability.
- Consult with internal and external stakeholders during the project discovery process to assess the feasibility and lift.
- Work closely with Senior and Lead engineers on how to better guide their teams' technical direction and decision-making.
- Aid development teams in building their domain knowledge and building their process and development practices.
- Mentor and sponsor the technical decisions and growth of our outstanding engineers.
- Understand team goals as well as the goals of their teammates. Works with the EM to find tasks/projects that will help teammates work towards their goals.
- Help continually shape and refine the technical hiring process to ensure we're evaluating candidates in an effective way.
What Skills Will Help You Be Successful:
- Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field.
- 5+ years of experience building scalable Ruby on Rails and/or React apps.
- Experience with deployment platforms (AWS, Heroku, etc..)
- Expertise in building secure, tested REST API's.
- Relational DB schema design experience.
- An excellent understanding of CS fundamentals: data structures, design patterns, etc.
- Willingness to work programming languages outside of our core stack (Ruby on Rails and React).
- Experience building service-oriented architectures and RESTful APIs.A passion for well-written, highly tested code.
- Experience with AWS services including EC2, RDS, EKS, S3, or equivalent cloud computing services a large plus.
- Experience with Kubernetes and Docker is a plus.
Visa sponsorship or transfer not available for this position.
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Beam believes a diverse and inclusive environment is key to building a great company and a great product. We are committed to creating an environment that is welcoming for people of all backgrounds, and encourage everyone to apply. Beam is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law.
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