Senior Back End Software Engineer, Rally Connect

Rally Health, Inc. helps people take an active role in their health care. We use clinical data, customized recommendations, and continual rewards to help consumers make positive lifestyle choices and navigate every touchpoint of the health care continuum. With offices in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Chicago, Rally Health features an executive team that has been working to transform the industry since 2010.

The Rally Connect team is building a next-generation provider search tool which will help our mission of making healthcare easy and affordable for all of us by providing an intuitive experience that connects individuals and families to the best care at the best price for their needs. We’re building an ecosystem of distributed services using Scala / Akka / Play web applications communicating over HTTP and a distributed message bus and deployed on AWS with Chef, Mesos, and Docker. Join a fun and agile team of talented engineers, learn new skills, and architect successful solutions that can keep up with our high rate of growth!

* **Have a passion to reinvent health care**; to make it better for the consumer and optimized for our partners * **Eager to gain valuable experience** and grow quickly, along with the rest of us, as we roll our product out to our millions of eligible users * **Want to make a difference**. The products we build as we grow have the opportunity to revolutionize the way people interact with healthcare

**Experience relevant to this role:** * An understanding of the challenges with scaling in complex, distributed systems * Familiarity with SOA and the ability to debug errors within a distributed services environment * Java (4+ years), C# (4+ years), or Scala (2+ years) * Familiarity with both NoSQL and RDBMS databases, especially their strengths and weaknesses * Working in a high-traffic production environment with strict SLA requirements * Building, shipping and scaling REST-ful services * Solid computer science fundamentals, problem solving, and analytical skills * Clear communication skills and a strong sense of ownership of seeing things through **Bonus points for having experience with:** * Developing, monitoring and managing distributed applications under heavy traffic * Functional programming * Programming with the actor model * AWS (configuring, deploying, managing, monitoring) services and distributed applications * Understanding various SDLC processes including agile (i.e. scrum) * Distributed systems architecture experience, with API contract definition * Chef or similar (Ansible, SaltStack, etc)