Senior Staff Full Stack Engineer
Honor exists to expand the world’s capacity to care.
We’re combining high tech with high-touch to deliver better home care for aging adults, better jobs for Care Professionals, and entirely new offerings to support the aging journey, at scale.
Founded in 2014, and now a Series E funded “Unicorn” valued at over $1B, Honor leads the world’s largest home care network with the most advanced care platform. Our August 2021 acquisition of Home Instead has created a global company that’s revolutionizing how society cares for older adults, their families, and Care Professionals.
The Honor Care Platform combines local care and the most advanced technology to bring the highest quality care to more aging adults.
Grow at Honor as part of a united team where everyone shows up authentically, shares ideas bravely, and solves complex problems!
About the Work:
We’re seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to join our team and work on the product that powers our operations team in delivering high-quality home care. As a full-stack engineer, you’ll collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define, design, and implement solutions that address both immediate needs and long-term goals. This role requires someone who thrives in ambiguity, can tackle technical debt, and delivers innovative products that make an impact.
The ideal candidate is motivated by delivering business value and thrives in environments where systems may vary in maturity. They are comfortable navigating and making thoughtful tradeoffs in complex technical decisions. You will join a small, talented team of passionate engineers, where your contributions will play a key role in shaping the future evolution of our home care operations platform.
Responsibilities:
- Own the end-to-end design and development of features in a full-stack environment.
- Collaborate closely with product management and cross-functional teams to translate business needs into technical solutions.
- Address and navigate technical debt while delivering scalable, high-quality products.
- Drive continuous improvement and innovation within the product space.
- Mentor and guide other engineers, contributing to a culture of technical excellence.
Qualifications:
- Strong proficiency in Python, React, and AWS.
- Proven ability to work through ambiguity and solve complex problems.
- Experience managing technical debt while delivering new features.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a deep understanding of how to work effectively in a remote environment.
- A commitment to owning work from end to end.
The tech stack you'll work with includes: Python, Thrift, MySQL, AWS, JavaScript, Looker, GitHub, DataDog
About you:
- You thrive in a diverse, cross-functional team, collaborating with people throughout the company
- You enjoy building clean interfaces and connecting them to backend services
- 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 know how to design relational database models, and have used a relational database at scale
- 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 have experience building distributed systems and cloud services like AWS, GCP
- You are willing to participate in an on-call rotation in collaboration with our tier 1 support team (about 7 days per quarter)
Your skills and experience include:
- Experience working at a technology startup
- Experience working with an RPC architecture
- You are knowledgeable about microservice architecture and best practices
- You are comfortable with frontend development and have experience with JavaScript frameworks like React
- Experience leveraging observability and monitoring tools like DataDog
- You enjoy mentoring and spreading knowledge to other engineers
Perks & benefits:
- Remote-first work model lets you work from anywhere in the U.S. and occasionally pop into a satellite office
- Competitive salary
- Equity in the company
- Comprehensive medical, mental health, dental, vision, and life insurance
- Employer-matched 401(k)
- Flexible PTO (manager approval)
- Diverse environment
- Monthly stipend to offset home office expenses
Our range reflects the hiring range for this position. We use national average to determine pay as we are a remote first company. Individual pay is based on a number of factors including qualifications, skills, experience, education, and training.
Base pay is just a part of our total rewards program. Honor offers generous equity packages that increase with position level and responsibilities, and a 401K with up to a 4% employer match.
We provide medical, dental and vision coverage including zero cost plans for employees. Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability and Life Insurance are fully employer paid with a voluntary additional Life Insurance option. We offer a generous time off program, mental health benefits, wellness program, and discount program.
Hiring Salary Range
$225,000 - $250,000 USD
What’s next?
Honor is remote friendly! We're hiring across the U.S., with an entirely virtual interview and onboarding process. Most of our positions are remote/work from home and do not require permanent relocation. As conditions allow, we have office space for in-person collaboration in our San Francisco Bay Area, CA, Austin, TX, and Omaha, NE hubs. If you're looking for a great job that offers you the opportunity to work from home, we'd love to talk to you.
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We value people! These four people-centric values guide the ways we work and decisions we make every day.
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Honor is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, political affiliation or belief.
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