Senior/Principal Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails, React)
Published on June 21, 2024
FORM Health is a virtual obesity medicine clinic delivering multi-disciplinary evidence-based obesity treatment through telemedicine. Obesity impacts more than 40% of the US adult population, and although historically only about 1% of patients received medical treatment for their disease, the field of Obesity Medicine is entering a period of rapid growth. FORM provides high-quality expert care and leverages technology to enhance the patient experience. All FORM patients work closely with their physician-led care team, which also includes advanced practice professionals and Registered Dietitians. Through our proprietary mobile app patients engage in regular video visits, as well as text messaging, photo journaling, digital data transmission, and customized educational materials. We hold ourselves to the highest standards of clinical care, and to treating every individual with empathy and respect.
Founded in 2019, FORM is a venture-backed innovative startup with an experienced clinical and leadership team. Our mission is to empower patients and be leaders in Obesity Medicine driving impact at a national scale. We are deeply invested in our core value to put patients first, and also deeply committed to creating a culture where every employee is valued and we learn and improve together. See what employees say about working at FORM here.
If you are passionate about helping people improve their health through weight loss, are open to innovative care solutions, and looking for a flexible work opportunity, join our team!
Form Health delivers medical treatment of obesity through telehealth.
Obesity impacts 40% of the US adult population, but only about 1% of patients receive medical treatment for their disease. Form Health makes medical treatment available to everyone.
Form Health helps people lose weight in a medically-supervised environment. Our physicians look at the whole patient and develop an individual, medical approach, including medications when appropriate. All of this: virtual MD visits, interactions with Registered Dietitians, group interactions, meal tracking, and more, is delivered securely via an app on the patient's phone.
We launched four years ago on iOS and Android and need an experienced back-end or full-stack engineer to:
- Develop back-end services and clinical tools with Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, Node (AWS Lambda), GraphQL, and ReactJS
- Drive and support experimentation and rapid iteration of a telemedicine product at scale
- Collaborate with other developers: native mobile, web, back-end/full-stack, and data engineers
- Collaborate with stakeholders to support rapid iteration of internal tools to help our business operations scale efficiently and create better experiences and outcomes for our patients
- Inform technical, product, process, hiring, and architectural decisions (including build vs buy)
- Continuously improve infrastructure (AWS), GraphQL APIs (Apollo Server), data modeling (PostgreSQL, Snowflake), integrations, and other services
Your contributions with have a massive impact building a world-class product, service, and team. We support patients in their weight loss journey and their clinical care teams with integrated chronic care and a mobile app with features like:
- Secure, HIPAA-compliant meal photo sharing, video chat visits, and text messaging
- Personalized content delivery (meal plans, timely resources, daily tips)
- Data collection and visualization
- Gamification to drive engagement
- A/B experiments and feature flags to deliver and measure impact continuously
- Much more on our roadmap
Things that are important to us:
- Creating a welcoming and safe place for patients
- Protecting patients’ privacy and the safety of their data
- Simplicity and quality
- Continuous learning and improvement
- Minimizing waste
- Growth and scalability
- Advancing the state of the art in telemedicine