Senior Java Engineer, PulsePoint
Healthcare marketing data company
Posted today
Healthcare marketing data company
201-500 employees
Posted today
201-500 employees
Company mission
To use real-time clinical data to help boost the healthcare industry and improve patient outcomes.
Role
Who you are
- Independence and strong ownership of business problems and their technical solutions
- Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking
- Strong Communication and inter-personal skills
- Mastery of algorithms, data structures and performance
- Experience in performance optimization (CPU, Memory, IO) and high-scale (>500 req/sec)
- Experience with open-source projects and tools (e.g. apache projects, maven, Spring, tomcat/glassfish)
- Experience with Agile, tight interaction with business and operations (DevOps)
- Experience with automated testing (TDD, Mocking, Unit/Functional/Integration)
- Expert Knowledge of Internet technologies/and protocols
- Expert knowledge of the Java language, platform, ecosystem, and underlying concepts and constructs
- Knowledge of common design patterns (IoC, GoF – not J2EE Pattern Library)
- B.S. in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering (or professional experience)
- Basic knowledge of Python a plus, but not critical
What the job involves
- Some major projects the Exchange team is currently working on: continuing to scale our core exchange platform, honing the intelligence of our optimization, cutting feedback time for business intelligence, and aggressive automation
- Currently, the PulsePoint Exchange:
- Handles hundreds of thousands of transactions per second, billions of times each month
- Evaluates, selects, and optimizes ad-serving based on advanced statistics and machine learning
- Returns responses collected from dozens of parties in milliseconds
- Constantly evolves to meet market demands that change in days and weeks, not months/years
- Factors thousands of data points in every serving decision
- We’re small enough you can own something and have a direct impact, but big enough that you don’t have to do it alone
- We care deeply about quality and doing the right thing, but have a strong focus on business value and time to market – and believe that focusing on the first part enables the second
- Developers have technical management (who are technical and write code), as well as direct access to business, product, and operations (and they have access to us)
- Lastly, our engineers have lots of empowerment and freedom of action (but we don’t water down our responsibilities or expectations)
- Some tools we use:
- GIT, Maven, TeamCity, JIRA, Confluence, Crucible, Intellij, Redis
- Some practices we’ve adopted: TDD/unit-testing, continuous integration, code-reviews, Scrum
- Things we’re working on: cloud-computing, event-driven IO, self-healing systems, analytic databases
- We like open source: Spring, Hadoop (we run the NYC Hadoop Meetup), Jetty, Linux, Memcache
- Developers get fast boxes, with multiple monitors, and can choose Windows or Linux
- We keep a library of technical books (several hundred) and haven’t had problems buying additions
- What we value as a team:
- Code built for Performance and Scale
- Solid engineering practices (e.g. design patterns, automated testing, fault-tolerant systems, KISS)
- Leveraging Open Source
- Agile development and tight interaction with business/operations
- Automated testing
- Developers who can navigate around a Linux box
- Passion, technical expertise, and personal accomplishment
- Rolling up your sleeves and getting things done
Our take
PulsePoint is a healthcare tech provider that uses real-time data to provide insight into patients. It uses machine learning and programmatic automation to better understand this data, enabling clinical diagnoses and solutions to be delivered more quickly and accurately.
With its range of analytics solutions, PulsePoint aims to improve predictive aspects of healthcare. The company recently launched its Signal technology, which draws together a range of physician-to-patient data, enabling healthcare organizations to cross-reference with their own information to gain fresh insight.
The global Big Data market for healthcare is expected to be worth $78 billion by 2027, according to an analysis by Emergen Research, and PulsePoint is setting out to be a big part of this growing sector. Having been acquired by Internet Brands in 2021 but remaining an independently run entity, it will benefit greatly from the expertise and market reach of its parent company and their portfolio of health media companies, including WebMD and Medscape.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2013
$3m
EARLY VC
Jan 2013
$3m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $15.5m
Company benefits
- Dollars and Sense: 401(k) match
- Happy + Healthy: Comprehensive medical plans, affordable medical, dental and vision options, 100%-paid life & disability insurance
- Break a Sweat: Free virtual fitness classes, Better Yourself Wellness program
- Always Learning: Generous annual tuition reimbursement, ongoing team trainings
- Take a Load Off: Paid vacation, sick time, and company holidays (including a floating holiday)
- Good Ol' Fun: Team-building events, happy hours, holiday celebrations, and more!
Company HQ
Midtown East, New York, NY
Leadership
Sloan Gaon
(CEO)Qualified as an Attorney before moving into Management roles at TurboChef, RegistryPro, MIVA, and more organizations. They then left their role as General Manager of GrubHub in March 2012 to found PulsePoint in July 2012.
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