For more than 20 years, PointClickCare has been the backbone of senior care. We’ve amassed the richest senior care dataset making our market density untouchable and our connections to the healthcare ecosystem exponentially more powerful than those of any other platform.
With Collective Medical & Audacious Inquiry, we’ve become the most expansive, full-continuum care collaboration network, offering care teams immediate, point-of-care access to deep, real-time insights at every stage of a patient’s journey.
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Position Summary
As a Senior Software Engineer at PointClickCare, you will be part of a focused team with the ability to have a significant impact on the performance, scalability, and reliability of our Data Platform.
You’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to identify bottlenecks, analyze system behavior, and propose performance enhancements. In addition, your contribution to a performance engineering culture, ensuring engineers are building in performance during the design phase is key to success. This role provides an opportunity to work with cutting edge cloud technologies as PointClickCare continues to expand its use of public cloud. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and have a passion for optimizing software systems, we’d love to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to quality products: The engineer will work on performance, stability, scalability, and reliability of the Data Platform.
- Drive performance initiatives: The engineer will design, develop, and implement performance enhancements for the Data Platform.
- Develop performance test suite: The engineer will plan, scope, schedule, and execute performance testing initiatives for the Data Platform.
- Consult with development SMEs: The engineer will collaborate with development subject matter experts to define performance metrics and goals.
- Advise on scalability and performance strategies: The engineer will provide guidance and recommendations to engineering teams on how to optimize system performance and scalability.
- Communicate performance insights: The engineer will present and explain performance findings, solutions, and best practices to peers and cross-functional groups.
- Develop performance tools and infrastructure: The engineer will assist in maintaining and provisioning performance test environments and creating automated performance solutions.
What Qualifications We’re Looking For
- Experience with distributed computing tools like Apache Hudi, Trino, Map Reduce and other big data technologies.
- Experience with distributed storage systems like HDFS, S3, etc.
- Familiarity with Hadoop, Spark, or other distributed computing systems.
- Understanding of data partitioning and sharding techniques.
- Knowledge of distributed computing principles and how they apply to large-scale data processing.
- Experience writing clean code that performs well at scale using languages such as Java/Kotlin/C#/Go.
- Experience in scripting languages such as Python.
- Knowledge of relational databases (e.g. Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL).
- Solid experience writing RESTful API endpoints.
- Absolutely love TDD and have working knowledge of it.
- Proficient in GIT.
- Experience using system and performance monitoring tools (e.g. New Relic, DataDog).
- Excellent organization, critical-thinking and personal leadership skills
- Self-starter with the ability to deliver with minimal supervision.
- Being okay with the uncomfortable feeling that comes from learning new things.
- Team player.
- Analytical mind with problem-solving aptitude.
- Proven experience as a great Engineer.
- Degree in Mathematics or Computer science or related experience
- Recent hands-on experience in Performance Engineering and/or Software Engineering.
- Experience tackling performance problems related to data.
Bonus Points For
- Exposure to data lakehouse technologies like Azure Data Lake, Hive, Trino etc…
- Experience with Spring Boot, Cloud infrastructure development.
- Experience with Jenkins CI/CD pipeline.
- Experience working on a SaaS product.
- Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Bash or Groovy.
- Experience in JMeter, LoadRunner.
- Understand systems environments like shared resources, components and services, CPU, memory, storage, network, etc.
- Has mentored others in a professional setting.
It is the policy of PointClickCare to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, religion, national origin, status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by law. PointClickCare welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please contact recruitment@pointclickcare.com should you require any accommodations.
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