Now is the time to join us!

At Virgin Pulse we value and celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe in creating teams made up of individuals with various backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Why? Because diversity inspires innovation, collaboration, and challenges us to produce better solutions. But more than this, diversity is our strength, and a catalyst in our ability to #changelivesforgood.

Who are you?

Senior Software Engineer supports and helps drive the delivery of new and enhanced features for their Product Delivery Team. They have a solid grasp of the platform, our tech stack, and trends within the field of engineering. They know dependencies with underlying systems and can fix issues in the system interfaces. In addition to developing and solving complex tasks, they aid in prioritizing development stories, provide estimates, and create subtasks to implement product features within the sprint. They take ownership in production issues that arise and actively work to a timely resolution. They may also be involved with architecture decisions for the development framework and perform code reviews

In this role you will wear many hats, but your knowledge will be essential in the following:

Design, code, and test new platform components, features, and enhancements for our web and/or mobile platforms (Swift/Java/Kotlin)
Investigate and troubleshoot complex issues across our platform
Support the team leads from an engineering perspective during sprint grooming, planning, and kick-off to help estimate stories, raise awareness and additional implementation details
Monitor and enhance platform performance tools in production
Ability to lead in software architecture discussions and actively contribute to technical discussions
Help to prioritize development user stories
Mentor and assist other engineers
Demonstrates ownership for development across team and other cross-functional teams
Ability to lead in identifying and resolving production issues
Help Identify and produce strategies to resolve technical debt
Create user stories to resolve production issues, technical debt, and opportunities for improvement

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

What you bring to the Virgin Pulse team

In order to represent the best of what we have to offer you come to us with a multitude of positive attributes including:

Ability to go beyond the functional solution to build maintainable and well-tested code
Ability to partner closely with product managers to refine the product
Effective communication skills, openness to collaborate, and enthusiasm to deliver as a part of a team
A passion and drive for learning technologies and recommend how to apply them pragmatically
An ability to lead a technical discussion and the openness to listen and learn from your peers

You also take pride in offering the following Core Skills, Competencies, and Characteristics:

4 + years in SW development role.
Deep Knowledge in Angular, JavaScript and TypeScript
Micro frontends architecture knowledge
systemJs and single-spa experience
RxJS and shared State Libraries (NgRX)
Design System Implementation
Frontend Styling and layout (CSS, HTML, Sass or Less)
Responsive UI Design
Solid understanding of the full software development life cycle
Outstanding problem-solving skills and a solid grasp of object-oriented programming
Experience developing services and APIs for web and mobile apps
Ability to articulate and champion design strategies related to scalability, maintainability, performance, security, and usability
A solid understanding of best practices for software development including testing, monitoring, and design

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you!

Why work at Virgin Pulse? 

We believe a career should provide competitive pay and benefits, a collaborative and supportive culture and cutting-edge technology and services. Virgin Pulse is an equal opportunity organization and is committed to diversity, inclusion, equity and social justice. To that end, we make a particular effort to recruit candidates from minoritized backgrounds to apply for open positions.