Software Engineer

Company: Chapter: Medicare Made Simple
Location: Walton
Posted on: February 24, 2021

Job Description:

About ChapterEvery morning, 10,000 Americans wake up and begin their first day of retirement. Chapter is re-inventing the way that Americans transition into retirement, starting with Medicare. We are re-authoring the aging narrative by enabling Americans to age with purpose and security and to define their best chapter. For most people, Medicare is boring, bureaucratic, and confusing. But choosing the right Medicare coverage is tremendously important - traditional Medicare leaves seniors responsible for at least 20% of medical costs and doesn't cover prescription drugs, dental, hearing, or vision care. And more than 10,000 coverage options exist nationwide, with each senior often facing 50+ options in their location alone.
The RoleWe're looking for a product-focused full stack software engineer to join as a member of our core team. You will join a tight-knit team and be empowered to shape the direction of technology and culture of the company.
What you'll need to be successful

• Strong proficiency with Javascript and React.js. Proficiency with TypeScript and Java preferred.
• Knowledge of data structures and ability to build user-facing applications that improve data quality over time
• Superlative positional empathy with a strong understanding of how technical decisions impact the user of what you're building.
• Passion and excitement for the cause: to re-define how Americans age and transition into their next chapter.
• Skill and comfort working in a rapidly changing environment with dynamic objectives and iteration with users.
• Comfort with ambiguity. While starting from a blank slate is challenging, you find it exciting, rewarding, and empowering. You are able to build products from the ground up.
  Some of the things you can look forward to at Chapter You will build features across the platform - from user-facing web applications, data modeling engines, and integrations with disparate third-party systems to data pipelines and internal tools that dramatically improve our ability to deliver amazing customer experiences. You will establish technical strategy and direction and will also support growing and developing a world-class engineering team. There are so many important problems to solve that directly impact the lives of the 10,000 Americans entering retirement every day.
  
  • Ownership over large areas of the product
  • Build and improve product features like enhancements to our recommendation engine
  • Influence the technical direction of the organization. Our current tech stack is React,
  • Java, and MySQL, hosted on Google App Engine. You will help us decide what technologies to add and how we scale
  • Collaborate with the team to brainstorm new features and products - and write the code that brings them to life
    We are an equal-opportunity workplace. We are deeply committed to building an inclusive workplace for people of all races, ages, gender identities, sexual orientations, religions, and ethnicities.
    

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