Senior Backend Developer

Overview 

Guidepoint’s Qsight group is a fast-growing data & analytics division of Guidepoint Global, servicing key markets in the healthcare space and beyond.  We streamline and synthesize data that our industry-leading clients use to make business decisions.  Come join us, to help us scale our successful data platform to new levels. 

As a Senior Backend Developer, you will help us reimagine the web experience of our flagship products, using the latest technologies and tooling.  As an early member of a new team, your contributions will have a profound influence.  This position is perfect for someone who loves a challenge and has come from a fast-growing company.

This is a hybrid position based out of Pune, India.

What You’ll Do 

Development 

• Build and maintain robust cloud-native APIs, services, and integrations
• Utilize Auth0 and API Gateway to authenticate and authorize HTTP requests
• Collaborate with frontend developers, data engineers, and dev-ops engineers
• Optimize and troubleshoot applications for performance, reliability, and scalability

Performance 

• Identify and address performance bottlenecks to ensure optimal speed and responsiveness of web applications
• Implement and advocate for best practices in performance optimization
• Collaborate with DevOps engineers on solutions for telemetry and observability

Coding and Programming 

• Rapidly iterate on features – writing elegant, reliable, and maintainable code
• Stay updated on the latest AWS cloud technologies and incorporate them into the development process
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback
• Engage with engineering and clients to resolve technical issues
• Mentor junior developers and contribute to a collaborative and innovative team culture

What You Have 

• Proven expertise in building and maintaining production backend web solutions
• Expertise with creating REST-ful backend services
• Expertise with AWS be backend technologies, patterns, practices –with Route 53, CloudFront, Lambda, EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, IAM
• Fluent in high language, such as Python or JavaScript
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code – CDK, Terraform
• Expertise with Agile SDLC practices
• Practical knowledge of cross-browser development and browser compatibility
• 4+ years of relevant experience
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent
• Meticulous, organized, proactive, critical thinker, with high level of attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

You may be a great candidate if you 

• Are passionate about writing high quality code
• Enjoy refactoring and leaving code in a better place than when you found it
• Want to make a huge impact on a brand new, innovative platform
• Are an excellent communicator
• Take pride in ownership and driving projects to completion
• Are passionate about building products
• Are great at learning something new
• Function independently with minimal oversight but also on a team
• You want to work on a new codebase with a fresh stack

 What We Have 

• Competitive compensation
• Employee medical coverage
• Central office location
• Entrepreneurial environment, autonomy, and fast decisions
• Casual work environment

About Guidepoint 

Guidepoint is a leading research enablement platform designed to advance understanding and empower our clients’ decision-making process. Powered by innovative technology, real-time data, and hard-to-source expertise, we help our clients to turn answers into action. 

Backed by a network of nearly 1.5 million experts and Guidepoint’s 1,300 employees worldwide, we inform leading organizations’ research by delivering on-demand intelligence and research on request. With Guidepoint, companies and investors can better navigate the abundance of information available today, making it both more useful and more powerful. 

At Guidepoint, our success relies on the diversity of our employees, advisors, and client base, which allows us to create connections that offer a wealth of perspectives. We are committed to upholding policies that contribute to an equitable and welcoming environment for our community, regardless of background, identity, or experience. 

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