Job Description
About the Company
Octave is a modern behavioral health practice creating a new standard for care delivery that's both high-quality and accessible to more people. With in-person and virtual clinics in California, Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Texas, and Washington D.C., the company offers personalized care plans that can include individual, couples, and family therapy, while pioneering relationships with payers to make care more affordable through insurance. By raising the bar on how care is delivered and how providers are supported, we are building a sustainable system that values equity, affordability, and effectiveness.
About the role
Octave is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (5+ years of experience) to help us develop the systems and tools needed to support clients seeking care, providers offering care, and the operational team and infrastructure infrastructure to support the two. We are a small but growing team who work primarily remotely, using Next.js (React), Django on PostgreSQL, gRPC and GraphQL to bring everything together.
About You
- 5+ years of experience building robust and scalable backend applications
- Experience developing and deploying Python applications into production
- Familiarity with modern web technologies (such as JSON, HTTP2, WebSockets, HTML, JavaScript, CSS)
- Experience with relational database systems like PostgreSQL or MySQL
- Experience integrating and synchronizing data with third party APIs
- A preference for writing quality code with automated testing and leaving the code base better than how you found it
- Experience with continuously delivery and troubleshooting production code
- Comfortablecommunicating and collaborating with engineers, clinical, and operations staff to solve open-ended problems
- Interest in doing mission-oriented work especially in the healthcare space
- Must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship now or anytime in the future
Nice to have:
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code & continuous deployment in production
- Experience with the Django web framework
- Experience with gRPC and Protobuf
- Experience working with healthcare, healthcare technology, and clinical staff, or other regulated industries
"Nice to have" really means "nice to have". It's completely possible that you don't have any of these and are still a great fit for the team.
Compensation
Octave is committed to pay equity. To maintain our commitment to pay equity, Octave will follow Pay Transparency regulations on all open job postings. Current Pay Transparency laws require companies to include a position's salary or hourly wage range (not including bonuses or equity-based compensation) in any internal or external job posting. This requirement extends to job postings published by a third party at an employer's request.
Octave will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with Octave's legal duty to furnish information.
Starting pay for qualified applicants will depend on a combination of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. The expected salary range for this role is set forth below and this range may be modified in the future.
The salary range for this role is $155,000-$210,000.
Additionally, this position is eligible for the following benefits: company sponsored life insurance, disability and AD&D plans. Voluntary benefits such as 401k retirement, medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, dependent care and commuter/parking options are also available. Octave offers generous Paid Time Off as well as paid parental leave benefits.
Application Instructions:
Please complete the following application. Please note that the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Information questions below are used for the purposes of EEOC reporting and are optional to complete. Octave is unable to change these questions and we acknowledge that many of the U.S. Equal Opportunity Employment Information questions are not inclusive or affirming of all aspects of cultural identity. Octave is committed to an inclusive workplace environment, and this information will not inform how we approach hiring or employment.