Job description
ABOUT THIS POSITION
As an Advanced Application Engineer in the Patient Payments organization at Waystar, you will solve problems that affect real people. You should care deeply about how your users interact with your application and how other engineers will iterate on your code. You should also be passionate about using modern technologies, removing tech debt, and improving processes. Instead of asking “Why is this the way it is?”, you ask “How can I make this better?”
The FinTech team is responsible for building full stack payment applications for both health system staff and patients. The team works closely with Product to bring new features to market to best support the needs of enterprise health systems and engage with patients through a Best in KLAS experience. The payment services utilize modern web technologies to facilitate payment processing, integration with financial institutions and reporting.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
What you'll be doing:
- You will join a team of full stack engineers to build new features for our payment applications, as well as support and maintain them
- You should expect to move up and down the software stack, writing Go, server-side PHP and the SQL statements for the products you release
- Collaborate with Product and other engineering teams to solve difficult problems and design new features
- Scope out technical designs that enable your team to execute on proposed solutions
- Upgrade legacy apps and code to modern frameworks and technologies
- Mentor/assist teammates and promote a culture of learning and teaching
- Embrace an agile development process that emphasizes test automation, code reviews, and fast release cycles
- Be a communicator! Have opinions and the ability to justify them - we want to know what you think
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
What we're looking for:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field preferred (or equivalent experience)
- 2+ years of professional full stack development experience
- Object-oriented programming (we’re mostly Go and PHP)
- Relational databases (we use MySQL)
- Unit and integration testing methodologies
- Distributed system architecture and asynchronous processing using queues (AWS SQS)
- Automated production logging, monitoring and alerting
- Agile development
- JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and/or MVC Frameworks helpful
ABOUT THE TEAM
The Engineering + Product Development team at Waystar leads the product and software development, digital transformation, and data security efforts across the company. As a leader in healthcare technology, the department creates and manages cutting-edge, cloud-based solutions to help solve the industry’s financial and administrative challenges — enabling them to better focus on their patients and communities. The department offers a variety of positions. Roles include application engineers (.Net, PHP, Java), data science and analytics developers, product managers, project managers, architecture engineers, cloud and DevOps engineers, database administration, UX/UI, security, compliance, and management level roles. We make possible in Healthcare IT what was previously viewed as technically impossible.
ABOUT WAYSTAR
Through a smart platform and better experience, Waystar helps providers simplify healthcare payments and yield powerful results throughout the complete revenue cycle.
Waystar’s healthcare payments platform combines innovative, cloud-based technology, robust data, and unparalleled client support to streamline workflows and improve financials so providers can focus on what matters most: their patients and communities. Waystar is trusted by 1M+ providers, 1K+ hospitals and health systems, and is connected to over 5K commercial and Medicaid/Medicare payers. We are deeply committed to living out our organizational values: honesty; kindness; passion; curiosity; fanatical focus; best work, always; making it happen; and joyful,
Waystar products have won multiple Best in KLAS® or Category Leader awards since 2010 and earned multiple #1 rankings from Black Book™ surveys since 2012. The Waystar platform supports more than 500,000 providers, 1,000 health systems and hospitals, and 5,000 payers and health plans. For more information, visit
waystar.com
or follow
@Waystar
on Twitter.
WAYSTAR PERKS
- Competitive total rewards (base salary + bonus, if applicable)
- Customizable benefits package (3 medical plans with Health Saving Account company match)
- Generous paid time off starting at 3 weeks + 16 holidays, including your birthday and volunteer time
- Paid parental leave (including maternity + paternity leave)
- Education assistance opportunities and free LinkedIn Learning access
- Free mental health and family planning programs, including adoption assistance and fertility support
- 401(K) program with company match
- Pet insurance
- Employee resource groups
Waystar is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate, value, and support diversity and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
This applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
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