Staff Backend Engineer, Honor

Core Services

$191-220k

+Equity

AWS
GCP
Python
Node.js
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Austin
San Francisco Bay Area
Honor

In-home care network

Open for applications

Honor

In-home care network

501-1000 employees

HealthcareB2CMarketplaceAge-techWellbeing

Open for applications

$191-220k

+Equity

AWS
GCP
Python
Node.js
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Austin
San Francisco Bay Area

501-1000 employees

HealthcareB2CMarketplaceAge-techWellbeing

Company mission

To change the care industry by building the first-of-its-kind care network and expand the world’s capacity to care.

Role

Who you are

  • We seek a seasoned backend engineer with experience designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable distributed systems
  • The ideal candidate is driven by providing business value through influence, engagement & adoption of their solutions, is comfortable working with systems at varying maturity levels, and appreciates making nuanced tradeoffs
  • You thrive in a foundational role supporting diverse, cross-functional teams as your customers, and possess exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills
  • You have at least 6 years of professional experience within a product-centric company
  • You’ve been a key contributor to the design and implementation of large, complex projects
  • You are comfortable working in and refactoring legacy, monolithic code
  • You are a strong communicator, both verbally and in writing
  • You’ve built and maintained production-grade features in Python or have transferable experience in common languages like Node.js and are willing to learn Python
  • You have experience building distributed systems and cloud services like AWS, GCP
  • You value leading through influence, have empathy for your customers, and take pride in building solutions that drive impact through enthusiastic adoption
  • You have experience defining, instrumenting and measuring standards for quality, security, scalability, and availability with a focus on delivering business value
  • You have experience working with an RPC architecture
  • You work at or have worked at a technology startup and familiar with the challenges of evolving platform maturity
  • You have first hand experience navigating multiple distributed architecture patterns

What the job involves

  • Core Services is one of the important pillars of the platform, with the north star of building the right abstractions for patterns of problems such as Identity & Access Management, Eventing service, Communication Service, Location Service, etc.
  • We build solutions that support other engineering teams and also work on some customer-facing products
  • You will join a small team of highly skilled, enthusiastic, and passionate engineers with an opportunity to create an outsized impact and contribute to the future evolution of Honor’s Care Platform

Application process

  • Please submit your resume, a cover letter explaining your suitability for the role, and any relevant project or work samples
  • Entirely virtual interview and onboarding process

Our take

Longer life expectancy and an aging population has resulted in the significant growth of the home-based care industry, as nearly 90% of people over the age of 50 wish to live in their homes as long as possible.

Honor is a technology-enabled home care company that partners with local care agencies, who leverage its infrastructure to handle back-office functions such as billing, scheduling, and staffing. The company currently provides non-medical home care services to people across the United States, supporting over 100,000 care professionals.

Boasting the world's largest home care network, the company's advanced care platform is revolutionizing how society cares for older adults. Powering over 1 million hours of care each week and with a number of key leadership hires announced over 2024, Honor is well set to see continued growth.

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Insights

Led by a woman
Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

8% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Oct 2021

$70m

SERIES E

Oct 2020

$140m

SERIES D

Total funding: $322m

Company benefits

  • Remote-First Work Model
  • Company Equity
  • Comprehensive Benefits - Including Health, Mental Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance for You and Your Family
  • 401k Matching
  • Generous Vacation Policy
  • Corporate Giving & Volunteering Programs
  • Paid Parental Leave

Company values

  • We Value People - Everything we do revolves around people
  • Care Starts With Connection
  • Great Solutions Demand Empathy
  • When You Grow, We Grow
  • Our Differences Propel Us

Company HQ

Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Seth Sternberg

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Studied at Yale and has an MBA from Stanford. Started out as an M&A Lead at IBM, and co-founded Meebo in 2005. Was a Product Management Director at Google.

Sandy Jen

(Co-Founder)

Studied Computer Science at Stanford and co-founded Meebo, acting as its CTO. Was an Engineering Manager at Google, and is also a current Board Member of Ultimate Impact.

Monica Lo

(Co-Founder & Strategy & Operations)

Studied at Dartmouth, Stanford and Harvard Kennedy. Was an Associate at A.T. Kearney and Manager of Strategic Initiatives at Safeway.

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