Software Engineer (Python-Flask-AWS Focus)

As a software engineer at Picwell, you will craft and maintain our API to curate personalized health insurance recommendations. The healthcare space is richly complex, and as a software engineer at Picwell, you will develop a deep understanding of the health insurance domain and implement creative solutions to the myriad challenges it offers. You will build upon your experience developing enterprise software to design scalable architectures with dedication to consistent design patterns. You will collaborate closely with the data science team to optimize Picwell’s predictive modeling for existing and future clients. In addition, you will champion initiatives to expand Picwell’s product offerings. You will work in an agile team, coordinating with product owners, pair programming with other engineers, performing thoughtful code reviews, and mentoring junior team members.

The most important skills needed as a Software Engineer are significant experience building applications on AWS using Python and preferably Flask and Docker also.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with product managers to define and prioritize work
• Work with healthcare/economics specialists to specify complex business logic
• Collaborate with data engineers to improve our sophisticated cost-simulators
• Work with data scientists to build predictive models for production usage
• Engage in technical mentorship of your peers and junior techies
• Contribute to the iterative improvement of development processes

Qualifications

We really need you to have the following:

• Real world significant experience with Python and preferably Flask and Docker.
• Experience writing, deploying and maintaining data-driven software in production environments
• Experience with backend web and/or API development, using a number of the tools in our stack
• Practical use of version control to write software with other contributors
• Demonstrated ability to write readable, well abstracted, and testable code
• Strong communication skills and strive to be a thoughtful and empathetic colleague

You would be a great fit if some of the following also describe you:

• Enjoy writing software in a collaborative team environment (e.g. code review, pair programming)
• Worked on applications with complex domain logic and a distributed architecture
• Desire to work in dynamic environment, where you are continually learning and growing
• Get excited to develop technological solutions to societal problems
• Worked with remote teams, or would like to

Our Stack

These are the technologies that we currently use, not all of which will necessarily be central to the role. If you’re already familiar with them, awesome! If not, you’ll pick them up on the job.

• Web services built with Python & Flask as well as AWS Lambdas and Serverless components
• Version control using git and GitHub
• Application data storage with MySQL, Redis, LMDB, DynamoDB
• Analysis of large data sets in Amazon Redshift, S3
• Infrastructure hosted in AWS
• Data pipeline built with Pandas, PySpark, Luigi and Jenkins
• Configuration management with Chef
• Tests written with pytest using mocks

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive compensation, with annual bonus and stock options
• 17 days of paid time off plus 8 company holidays
• Flexible schedules and the ability to work remote when needed
• Health, vision, and dental insurance (including HSA options)
• 401(k) retirement account
• Conference, training and seminar budget
• Annual company-wide “Hack Week”
• Conference, training and seminar budget
• Slack for team communication

What We Do

Picwell is committed to empowering ordinary Americans to make good health insurance choices for themselves and their families. The sheer complexity of health insurance leads many people to essentially choose at random. This results in unnecessarily high costs for consumers and billions of dollars of waste in the healthcare system.

We use predictive analytics in combination with healthcare and behavioral economics research to reduce the choice complexity. A user’s plan options are distilled down to personalized scores, which incorporate many nuances beyond pure cost, including the user’s risk tolerance and preferred physicians. Picwell allows users to purchase a health plan that covers what they need, at a reasonable cost, with minimal stress.

Right now, we are only able to consider applicants with US work authorization not requiring visa sponsorship.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, cis/transgender status, age, marital status, parental status, veteran status, or disability status.

Our main office is located in Center City Philadelphia, PA close to multiple commuter lines.

Job Type: Full-time

Job Location:

• Philadelphia, PA 19103 (Required)