Software Engineer II

Summary

Waystar is a company that simplifies healthcare payments through a smart platform and better experience. They are seeking a Software Engineer II to join their team, responsible for building scalable software frameworks, supporting web applications, and mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• You will join a team of full stack engineers to build new features for our web applications, as well as support and maintain them
• You should expect to move up and down the software stack, writing client-side JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, server-side PHP and the SQL statements for the products you release
• Collaborate with Product, UX and other engineering teams to solve difficult problems and design new features
• Scope out technical designs that enable your team to execute on proposed solutions
• Upgrade legacy apps and code to modern frameworks and technologies
• Mentor junior engineers and promote a culture of learning and teaching
• Embrace an agile development process that emphasizes test automation, code reviews, and fast release cycles
• Be a communicator! Have opinions and the ability to justify them - we want to know what you think

Skills

• 2+ years of professional full stack web development experience
• Object-oriented programming (we're mostly PHP)
• Relational databases (we use MySql)
• Modern JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, React, or Vue (we use Vue)
• JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and/or MVC Frameworks
• Unit and integration testing methodologies
• Distributed system architecture and asynchronous processing using queues (AWS SQS)
• Automated production logging, monitoring and alerting
• Agile development
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred (or equivalent experience)

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 2+ years of professional full stack web development experience
• Object-oriented programming (we're mostly PHP)
• Relational databases (we use MySql)
• Modern JavaScript frameworks such as Angular, React, or Vue (we use Vue)
• JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and/or MVC Frameworks
• Unit and integration testing methodologies
• Distributed system architecture and asynchronous processing using queues (AWS SQS)
• Automated production logging, monitoring and alerting
• Agile development

Nice to Haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred (or equivalent experience)

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards (base salary + bonus, if applicable)
• Customizable benefits package (3 medical plans with Health Saving Account company match)
• We offer generous paid time off for our non-exempt team members, starting with 3 weeks + 13 paid holidays, including 2 personal floating holidays.
• We also offer flexible time off for our exempt team members + 13 paid holidays
• Paid parental leave (including maternity + paternity leave)
• Education assistance opportunities and free LinkedIn Learning access
• Free mental health and family planning programs, including adoption assistance and fertility support
• 401(K) program with company match
• Pet insurance
• Employee resource groups