Koala Health

Software Engineer

Koala Health

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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About the role

  • Own well-scoped work from requirements through release, ensuring solutions meet acceptance criteria and work effectively in real-world operational workflows
  • Break down larger initiatives into clear milestones, identify dependencies early, and proactively surface blockers and risks
  • Build production-quality, maintainable code that follows established standards and supports fast, safe iteration over time
  • Design and implement resilient solutions that account for edge cases, failures, retries, and operational realities
  • Add and maintain appropriate testing, validate changes in realistic scenarios, and document important behavior or process changes
  • Partner closely with Product, Pharmacy Operations, Customer Care, Finance, and other stakeholders to clarify requirements and deliver strong outcomes
  • Participate in code reviews, provide thoughtful technical input, and help improve engineering quality across the team
  • Support releases, monitor production outcomes, troubleshoot issues, and contribute to follow-up improvements that prevent recurrence
  • Participate in on-call and help drive incident investigation, resolution, and long-term reliability improvements
  • Apply secure coding and compliance-minded practices when working with customer, prescription, operational, and payment-related systems

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building web applications and APIs, including experience working with relational databases
  • Experience working across both front-end and back-end development
  • Strong product sense and the ability to understand business needs, stakeholder priorities, and customer experience when designing and building solutions
  • A high degree of ownership, accountability, and initiative, with the ability to independently drive projects and take responsibility for outcomes
  • Strong engineering judgment and high standards for code quality, maintainability, and long-term system health
  • Comfort working on a small, high-impact team with significant autonomy and responsibility
  • Proven ability to learn quickly, adapt to new technologies and business needs, and tackle unfamiliar challenges with curiosity and confidence
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across functions
Benefits
  • We are a remote-first company offering our employees the flexibility of working from home
  • We offer a competitive salary and a chance to take part in the company's success via equity
  • We cover medical, dental, and vision insurance with partial coverage for your partner and dependent
  • We offer unlimited PTO, a 401k retirement account, and any work-from-home tools & equipment you need to support your own office needs
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
web applicationsAPIsrelational databasesfront-end developmentback-end developmentsecure codingtestingincident investigationcode qualitymaintainable code
Soft Skills
ownershipaccountabilityinitiativeengineering judgmentadaptabilitycuriositycommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingstakeholder management