BlueChew Looking for Front End Developer at Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area Full Time

Bluechew / Meds.com is a leader in the fast-growing direct-to-consumer telemedicine industry. We have built strong brands and efficient operations to service a large and growing customer base. We have a world-class engineering team and culture. Our software engineering team has built a vertically integrated direct-to-consumer infrastructure with in-house telemedicine e-commerce platforms, proprietary pharmacy software, and end-to-end handling of electronic prescriptions.

Join the team and report to the CTO for this full-time front-end engineer role. The main leaders of the team are the CTO and VP of Technology, both with PhD degrees. They have built an innovative and practical engineering culture.

Some Technologies We Use

• Programming languages: TypeScript, SQL, JavaScript, Python, Go, Sass
• Databases: SQL and no-SQL, Big Query
• Frameworks, key libraries, and runtime: Angular, Node JS, AWS Chime, Free Switch
• Infrastructure: Google Cloud, AWS, and on-premises servers
• Project management: Azure DevOps

Some Distinguished Projects We Have Accomplished

• A proprietary telemedicine system with an integrated electronic health records system, web-based video calls, and SIP-based phone call-to-web conversion.
• A complete pharmacy software handling large-scale production and fulfillment.
• An e-commerce system with numerous integrated services, such as shipping, payment, emails, etc.

Responsibilities

• Build clean and intuitive UI components, UX flows in close collaboration with the product team for key business areas, including patient-facing sites, medical and pharmacy portals, etc.
• Maintain, debug, and fix issues for frontend codebases
• Produce high quality code for peer review, and provide detailed peer review for code changes to the frontend by others.
• Help manage certain online services, such as content management systems and SAAS shopping sites.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Math, Science, Engineering, Economics, other highly quantitative disciplines, or equivalent experience.
• Thousands of hours working with non-routine problems with some of these technologies: CSS, Sass, JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, HTML.
• A passion for building clean and intuitive UI/UX on the web, and a keen eye for design.
• A strong appetite for learning new programming paradigms, and ability to digest them.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate has a passion for clean and intuitive design, and the technical caliper to build them for the web. Usually, passion and caliper reinforce each other. They have spent more than 2 years tirelessly building highly dynamic and interlinked web pages. In that process, they have gained exposure to the vast array of open-source tools for web development. Among these, they have mastered a few tools and libraries, and are in the journey of mastering more. They have learned through building how important good design is, how critical good code is, and how hard to produce either. Therefore, they ensure they have enough time to think deeply about the problems at hand in order to produce both good design and good code.

Highlights of the Position

• Highly competitive pay, pleasant work environment, and work/life balance
• Be on the ground floor for launching new direct-to-consumer medications.
• Be on the cutting edge of both telemedicine and software engineering.
• Be a core member of the only software engineering team.

The Interview Process

• Round 1: phone call with our HR department
• Round 2: a 1-hour take-home test with a sequence of small coding challenges, if the virtual interview with HR went well.
• Round 3: one-hour technical interview using JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
• Final round: on-site visit to our Austin office or video interview with CEO, CTO, and senior Product Manager.

We are looking for top talent that wants to make a measurable impact in an exciting, fast-paced environment. This role is full-time in our Austin office (not remote, not hybrid).