Senior Software Engineer - Front End Full Stack
- Full-Time
- Providence, RI
- VirginPulse
- Posted 3 years ago – Accepting applications
Job Description
Overview:Who is Virgin Pulse?Virgin Pulse, founded as part of Sir Richard Branson’s famed Virgin Group, helps organizations build employee health and wellbeing into the DNA of their corporate cultures. As the only company to deliver a powerful, mobile-first digital platform infused with live services, including coaching and biometric screenings, Virgin Pulse’s takes a high-tech-meets-high-touch-approach to engage employees in improving across all aspects of their health and wellbeing, every day – from prevention and building a healthy lifestyle to condition and disease management to condition reversal, all while engaging users daily in building and sustaining healthy habits and behaviors. A global leader in health and wellbeing, Virgin Pulse is committed to helping change lives and businesses around the world for good so that people and organizations can thrive, together. Today, more than 3100 organizations across the globe are using Virgin Pulse’s solutions to improve health, employee wellbeing and engagement, reduce costs and create strong workplace cultures.
Who are our employees?At Virgin Pulse we’re passionate about changing lives for good. We want to make a difference in the world by helping people be healthy so they can perform at their best, every day, at work and home. Our award-winning solutions support leading employers in improving and simplifying the employee health and wellbeing journey and engaging people in all aspects of their health. But our world-class products and programs are nothing without our people – the employees who design, build, promote, sell, test and perfect the latest innovations in workplace health and wellbeing. Our people are our top priority and we invest in their health and happiness. At Virgin Pulse, we have so much more than a strong, supportive company culture – have a shared vision for a healthier, happier world.
Virgin Pulse values and celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe in creating teams made up of individuals with various backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, inspires innovation, collaboration, and challenges us to produce better solutions. As a global employer, we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
As we are committed to diversifying our company, we strongly encourage candidates that are historically underrepresented in the tech industry to apply.Responsibilities:Who you areWe are focused on continuing the growth of our next-generation SaaS application and are looking for new Software Engineers to join our team.
As a Senior Software Engineer with a focus on Front End at Virgin Pulse you will work on a platform engineering team. You bring to the table a base understanding of many modern open-source web technologies and are dedicated to learning more. Each day you will be collaborating with Tech Leads, Product Managers, UX Designers, and other talented Engineers to deliver great solutions on an exponentially growing application.
You'll be working on platform that serves:
You should have some skills from previous experience that include:
You'll definitely be in the right place if you have experience with:
Please include a cover letter to let us know why you are applying for this role.
Security Competencies:Work to maintain system and data security at a high standard, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the Virgin Pulse application is not compromised. Adhere to industry best practice coding standards and verify all code developed at Virgin Pulse is free from bugs and security vulnerabilities such as those defined and published by OWASP.
Why work here?We believe a career should provide competitive pay and benefits, a collaborative and supportive work environment, strong employee culture and cutting-edge technology and services — so many reasons to love it here.
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Who are our employees?At Virgin Pulse we’re passionate about changing lives for good. We want to make a difference in the world by helping people be healthy so they can perform at their best, every day, at work and home. Our award-winning solutions support leading employers in improving and simplifying the employee health and wellbeing journey and engaging people in all aspects of their health. But our world-class products and programs are nothing without our people – the employees who design, build, promote, sell, test and perfect the latest innovations in workplace health and wellbeing. Our people are our top priority and we invest in their health and happiness. At Virgin Pulse, we have so much more than a strong, supportive company culture – have a shared vision for a healthier, happier world.
Virgin Pulse values and celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe in creating teams made up of individuals with various backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, inspires innovation, collaboration, and challenges us to produce better solutions. As a global employer, we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
As we are committed to diversifying our company, we strongly encourage candidates that are historically underrepresented in the tech industry to apply.Responsibilities:Who you areWe are focused on continuing the growth of our next-generation SaaS application and are looking for new Software Engineers to join our team.
As a Senior Software Engineer with a focus on Front End at Virgin Pulse you will work on a platform engineering team. You bring to the table a base understanding of many modern open-source web technologies and are dedicated to learning more. Each day you will be collaborating with Tech Leads, Product Managers, UX Designers, and other talented Engineers to deliver great solutions on an exponentially growing application.
You'll be working on platform that serves:
- Several million engaged users.
- 4,000 Clients across 190 countries, including 10% of Fortune 500 companies
- 50 billion+ consumer generated API calls a year
- Develop design patterns and contribute to and improve our internal design systems to enable a delightful user experience
- Work to implement UX patterns that are reusable, responsive, and accessible
- Be an impactful and mature contributor to the team to plan, design, and build elegant solutions
- Collaborate with software engineers, product managers, and designers, both within your team and across teams
- Deliver testable, maintainable, and high-quality code
- Share knowledge, evangelize best practices, and collaborate with web engineers throughout the company
- Design, code, and test new platform components, features, and enhancements.
- Triage, investigate, and resolve issues across our platform.
- Participate in sprint ceremonies to design solutions, estimate effort, and collaborate with the team to effectively plan work.
- 4+ years of experience in an engineering role, with passion and skill for front end UX.
- Strong communication skills and can comfortably discuss the architecture for the features you’ll propose and the ability to implement them cleanly.
- A passion and drive for learning technologies and applying them pragmatically.
- An ability to contribute to a technical discussion and the openness to listen and learn from your peers.
You should have some skills from previous experience that include:
- 4+ years of development experience and an in-depth understanding of Angular, comfortable working with JavaScript and have extensive knowledge of HTML and CSS.
- Experience working with Java
- Care deeply about usability, accessibility, and performance
- Care deeply about the user experience and know how to build user-friendly web applications
- The ability to design and implement REST API
- Experience with modern (RESTful) web applications
- Experience with Java, Kotlin, or similar language dev skills
- Experience with SQL; PostgreSQL is a plus
- Experience with common front-end technologies such as Angular, React, Pug, Bower/NPM, Grunt, etc.
- Experience writing Unit Tests
- Agile Scrum or Kanban methodologies
You'll definitely be in the right place if you have experience with:
- Spring Boot Framework
- Kotlin
- Apache Storm
- AWS
Please include a cover letter to let us know why you are applying for this role.
Security Competencies:Work to maintain system and data security at a high standard, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the Virgin Pulse application is not compromised. Adhere to industry best practice coding standards and verify all code developed at Virgin Pulse is free from bugs and security vulnerabilities such as those defined and published by OWASP.
Why work here?We believe a career should provide competitive pay and benefits, a collaborative and supportive work environment, strong employee culture and cutting-edge technology and services — so many reasons to love it here.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected class status.