Software Developer, Clover Health
Engineering Productivity
CA$115-145k
Healthcare technology company
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Healthcare technology company
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
CA$115-145k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To improve the quality of life of our members and physicians by reducing doctor-insurer friction and increasing visibility into the health of each patient, leading to improved care.
Role
Who you are
- You have 5+ years of experience in software with proficiency in one or more common languages (e.g., Python, Go), and are comfortable working across different technical systems and concerns
- You have worked at a systems level with modern developer infrastructure and production telemetry, and can query, combine, and process data from tool APIs — ours are GitHub, Linear, GCP, Sentry, Grafana and incident.io, but equivalents like GitLab, Jira or Datadog count just as much. You have built the mechanisms that make engineering health visible, not just consumed someone else's dashboard
- You have personally instrumented hard quality metrics — several of Change Failure Rate, Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Time to Restore, Regression Rate, Release Failure Rate, PR-failure rate, code review depth, or SLIs/SLOs and error budgets — rather than just referenced them
- You have a strong product-oriented mindset, care about outcomes over output, and want to understand the "why" behind what you build to connect your work to business impact
- You have experience building and refactoring complex (often distributed) systems and possess experience with declarative infrastructure as code (IaC) deployment patterns
- You have experience with public cloud platforms such as GCP and/or AWS
- You have — or are keen to build — hands-on experience with load and performance testing (k6, Locust, Gatling, JMeter all welcome), including handling synthetic data safely so test traffic never contaminates real user telemetry
- You have AI experience in terms of testing tools and architecture. You know how to build systems with AI agents as your partners, and you possess clear strategies for strictly verifying and validating AI-generated code and infrastructure outputs before they merge
- You have excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and are able to adapt quickly to new challenges and technologies
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Software Developer, Engineering Productivity with expertise in backend infrastructure, platform engineering, and SDLC observability to join our globally distributed engineering team. You won't just write code to spec — you'll understand the business problem, engage with stakeholders, and shape the solution. In this role, your customers are our own engineers: you will act as a high-leverage technical bridge between Quality and Eng Core, building the automated safety nets and engineering telemetry required to increase deployment velocity while driving code-related incidents to zero
- Our engineering team is spread across time zones, and this role works closely with colleagues in Hong Kong. In practice that means regular early-morning or evening calls — we keep the load shared fairly, but comfort with that rhythm matters for this role
- Design and champion internal Quality Programmes: Drive engineering-wide process changes and ensure pods adopt new reliability standards without friction. You will operate with a product-owner mindset to define and evangelize the internal reliability roadmap
- Build SDLC observability pipelines: Harness the APIs across our existing stack (GitHub, Linear, GCP, Sentry, Grafana, incident.io) to collect, aggregate, and visualize engineering and quality telemetry — delivering self-service dashboards that give Engineering Managers and pod leads clear visibility into delivery efficiency and SDLC bottlenecks
- Define and enforce hard metrics: Establish and automate reporting for the Key Quality Indicators that objectively describe deployment health — Change Failure Rate, Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Time to Restore, Regression Rate, Release Failure Rate, PR-failure rate, and code review depth — creating a quantifiable baseline for platform reliability
- Architect Shift-Left Pipeline Gates: Weave automated Performance, Security, and Accessibility checks directly into the CI/CD pipeline at the PR level in tight partnership with Eng Core
- Build Real-World Load Testing: Shift load and performance testing left for every customer onboarding, validating real-world assumptions using tools such as k6, Locust, Gatling, or JMeter
- Engineer Synthetic Data & Production Canaries: Build the architecture for safe synthetic data injection to unblock heavy load-testing and live-production canaries, strictly isolating test data from authentic user telemetry
- Leverage Generative AI Tooling: Actively utilize AI assistants (e.g., Gemini, Claude, Cursor, Codex) to accelerate the development of testing frameworks, automate infrastructure code, and design advanced testing architectures
- Drive Tooling Consolidation: Lead the technical migration away from expensive, legacy testing infrastructure to a unified, AI-supported automation stack — maximizing the value of the platforms we already have rather than introducing unnecessary vendor complexity
- Help define and maintain development practices: Enable fast iteration while ensuring quality, including writing tests and documenting key implementations
- Success in this role looks like:
- You operate as a high-leverage Individual Contributor (IC) and reliability champion, effectively negotiating with engineering pods and leadership to roll out and adopt critical quality processes across the entire SDLC
- You operate with a strong bias for action—designing automated systems that actively enforce our reliability thresholds and comfortably holding the line on quality standards when deployments are at risk
- You have made engineering health measurable. Delivery efficiency and software quality are no longer subjective conversations — they are numbers on a dashboard that leadership and pod leads both trust and act on
- You have delivered impactful projects that advance our engineering roadmap, reducing toil or streamlining operations
- You have built trusted partnerships across engineering teams and contribute to the success of their projects where needed
- You proactively identify opportunities to improve how we build, deploy, and scale – bringing a thoughtful, systems-oriented lens to everything from infrastructure to process
Our take
Clover Health is a medical insurance company operating as a Preferred Provider Orgaization for Medicare Advantage, the Medicare plan for elderly American citizens. It aims to reduce the doctor-insurer friction to increase visibility into the health of patients.
Supported by Clover, physicians are able to focus on people rather than paperwork. It offers patient-centered analytics and a dedicated care management team, so it is able to rapidly identify potential healthcare risks and provide preventative care. This helps to provide a more sophisticated level of care than existing providers.
Over the years, Clover Health has performed well in a rapidly growing market, despite hitting profitability issues back in 2021. The company smartly focussed in on this issue, and is now expecting to reach profitability in 2026. With the growing number of elderly Americans, the market is only going to get bigger, presenting an opportunity for even bigger growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2019
$500m
SERIES E
May 2017
$130m
SERIES D
Total funding: $925m
Company benefits
- Paid parental leave and a life insurance policy
- Commuter benefit program
- 2 paid volunteer days for an organization of your choice
- 401(k) contributions
- Home office reimbursement for full-time employees
- 18 paid vacation days, 9 paid sick days, 10 company holidays, and a floating holiday
- Medical, dental, and vision plans; healthcare and dependent care FSA as well as a health and wellness benefit
Company HQ
Downtown, Nashville, TN
Leadership
Vivek Garipalli
(Founder & Executive Chair)They started out in Healthcare Investment Banking with Credit Suisse before joining the Blackstone Group. They also worked in Private Equity at J.P. Morgan, and co-founded Ensemble Health Partners and CarePoint Health System.
Aric Sharp
(CEO)Has a history of successfully leading healthcare start-up, turnaround, and transformation efforts in a variety of settings including physician practices, clinically integrated networks, large health systems, and insurance products.
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