Company Overview

Navigating Cancer is the pioneer in patient relationship management software and services for cancer care. The company has developed the first patient-centered oncology platform that improves the care delivery model for patients, providers, pharmaceutical manufacturers and payers. By putting patients at the center of their care, providers become economically viable in value-based payment models, payers and at-risk providers reduce the total cost of cancer care, and pharmaceutical manufacturers improve medication adherence for their life-saving treatments. Most importantly, patients receive a holistic service offering to support their individual goals and preferences.

The company is backed by industry-leading patient satisfaction ratings and currently supports over a million patients, thousands of care providers, dozens of pharmaceutical manufacturers, and several payer models nationwide to lower costs, improve patient satisfaction, and drive better outcomes.

Job Summary

As a Principal Engineer at Navigating Cancer, you will:

• Design, document, lead implementation and drive socialization of our cross-team and cross-service architecture, assisting and guiding teammates in the pragmatic, scalable, and flexible architecture to allow our data and applications platform to grow and evolve.
• Dive deep into our software platform, becoming a subject matter expert on our technical capabilities, limitations, and opportunities, and teach your teammates
• Develop a deeper understanding of the needs and challenges facing cancer patients, and develop software that can help them during one of the most difficult times in their life.
• Be a vocal leader on the team for continuous improvement, software craftsmanship, and developer productivity and happiness.

The ideal candidate will also - 

• Bring strong Health IT and industry domain knowledge to bear on difficult problems.
• Keep up to date with current trends in developing cloud and mobile first applications, and maintain a strategic perspective on our fast-moving industry.
• Has prior experience in building frameworks and platform to enable rapid data and omni-channel application development. 

Tools & Technologies

We use an ever evolving set of tools and technologies to build our platform. This role is expected to help shape and guide our current and future tool selection. Our core platform toolset currently entails;

• Ruby, both with and without Rails.
• Java and a smattering of Golang
• MySQL, Postgres, and a bit of Redis.
• Swagger, RabbitMQ, Docker, and ELK.
• A full swath of Amazon AWS offerings.
• React and Backbone.js
• Evolving big data platform

Qualifications and Skills

• 10+ years developing web applications, with experience in multiple frameworks, preferably LAMP, MERN or Rails. 
• Prior experience in architecting, designing and developing high-volume, high-performance, high-availability applications using proven frameworks and technologies.
• Familiarity with developing reusable libraries and frameworks.
• Knowledge of best practices in API development, developing data solutions and application development lifecycle.
• Expert-level knowledge & experience developing with SQL and NO-SQL databases. 
• Knowledge of web application security best practices, attack vectors and mitigation strategies.
• Excitement for the mission of Navigating Cancer and improving the lives of cancer patients. 
• Interest and ability to mentor and coach our team.

Why Work Here

We support thousands of healthcare professionals and tens of thousands of cancer patients every day. We help cancer patients get better care—and consider this a valuable and meaningful reason to come to work everyday. You get to work with leading technology, wear many hats, and contribute every day to our business success! You get to help us grow and establish ourselves as a world-class business. We are lean, agile, and lightweight. We believe in each other, believe in our work, and have fun along the way.

This position is a full time, in our downtown Seattle office. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and a fantastic work environment. Come join our team and make a difference!

Our Values

• Work with Purpose. Work together to improve the lives of cancer patients. Collaborate with team members, have passion, enthusiasm and mission for the work that we do.
• Act with Integrity. Communicate openly, be honest, follow through.
• Be Agile. Discover creative solutions, welcome change. Adapt and pursue continuous improvement.
• Seek Simplicity. Reduce complexity for our customers and patients. Simplify our products, our processes and our messages.
• Strive for Growth. Constantly strive to achieve personal, professional, and company goals. Continuous reflection, learning and achievement.