Staff Software Engineer, Appointment Management
Zocdoc
AWSJavaScriptMicroservicesNode.jsReactScala
Salary
💰 $180,000 - $250,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Architect mission-critical workflows: design, build, and maintain stateful, end-to-end systems ensuring data integrity (idempotency, reconciliation, audit trails) and compliance
- Iterate rapidly: ship incremental, production-ready features in days; prototype, gather user feedback, refine
- Own your domain: act as technical product lead for core platform areas; set standards for code quality, observability, testing, operational excellence
- Delight and empower customers: partner with Product and Support to translate user pain points into scalable solutions
- Push the limits with AI: leverage AI to automate previously impossible tasks and create new user experiences
Requirements
- Experienced systems architect: designed and delivered large-scale, stateful architectures (data modeling, clear schemas, end-to-end reliability)
- Distributed-transaction specialist: implemented two-phase commits, sagas, idempotency, compensating actions
- Deep transactional-pipeline expertise: reconciled workflows with audit trails and automated recovery for financial/compliance operations
- Reliability-first mindset: observability, fault tolerance, graceful degradation
- Scalability & performance focus: caching, queueing, rate-limiting, tuning for growth
- Strategic thinker & communicator: break down trade-offs, document designs, align stakeholders
- Bias toward action & high standards: rapid prototyping, iterate on feedback, production-ready releases
