Backend Developer

NovuHealth is the health care industry’s leading marketing and behavior change platform, designed to enable health plans to better understand, motivate and connect with members. Leveraging clinical and behavioral best practices, rewards, incentives, and personalized communication, NovuHealth is the most cost-effective, seamless way to reach and influence high-value member behaviors.

Novu is a growing health care technology company that offers health insurers, providers and employers a platform designed to help consumers make better decisions and live longer, healthier lives. We are expanding wisely but aggressively and are looking to add the best of the best to our engineering team.

- You enjoy working with colleagues you can rely on and learn from, and you bring a lot to the table yourself. - You are motivated by measurable daily progress and can lead by example. - You are willing to leave your ego at the door and are open to learning from those around you, but you are also comfortable vigorously debating the right approach to solving problems. - You value an engineering culture rooted in collaboration, humility, trust, responsibility and learning. - You stay up to speed on new technologies and introduce them to your teammates. - You are an elite developer who loves working with others of the same caliber. - You possess 2+ years of professional programming experience and are an excellent communicator and collaborator, especially with non-technical coworkers. - You have a strong background creating secure, RESTful API as well as thread-safe asynchronous processes. - You are very comfortable around relational databases and SQL, especially Postgres, and enjoy the challenges found in developing with large data sets.

- Knowledge of XML and JSON for data interchange - Demonstrated understanding of object-oriented design - Experience working with Ruby on Rails - Basic understanding of front-end technologies and platforms such as CoffeeScript, HTML5, and SASS, as well as iOS and Android - Experience working within a scrum agile process