About August Health

August is the modern platform for Senior Living operators: we empower the essential work of caring for all our elders.

Our mission is to ensure that operators centralize their resident data into our easy to use platform, allowing them to share data across their community, keep track of residents’ care needs and document progress accurately. All of this supports their bottom line and allows them to focus on providing the best care possible.

At August we strive to live our values each day, in every interaction with our customers and with each other.

• Be responsible – leave things better than you found them
• Take ownership – be decisive and take action
• Be ambitious – build something great
• Keep an open mindset – communicate candidly and welcome new ideas
• Be humble – celebrate each others’ successes and learn from our mistakes
• Stay positive – assume best intent

About the role

We're looking for an experienced backend-end developer to join us, especially someone with several years of experience building and shipping complex applications.

Our development team is a small group of very capable engineers and we like to balance building thoughtfully with getting things shipped. The position offers the opportunity to deeply understand our problem space and channel compassion for the experiences of older adults and the challenges of caregiving into building a mission-driven, elegant, and intuitive product.

Technologies we use: Scala, Play Framework, Protobuf, Kubernetes, Postgres. You don’t need to have specific experience in all of these, but the ability & self-motivation to learn them is a must.

We offer market competitive compensation based on experience and ability, including significant equity option grants. Other benefits include excellent health, dental, vision coverage, 401K, One Medical, Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, Teladoc memberships, and unlimited vacation days. The whole team works remotely.

Key qualifications

• 7+ years professional experience as a software engineer familiar with shipping thoughtfully built APIs
• Experience working in engineering organizations and familiarity with product focused software development cycles
• Ability to thrive in a startup environment that’s full of ambiguity - experience balancing tradeoffs to make complex decisions where there is no ‘right’ answer
• Good communication and personal skills; ability to interact and work well with the team
• Interest in development of company culture and its reflection in our engineering practices
• Ability & desire to mentor other engineers

About our team

Our company of 35 has technical, healthcare and company-building backgrounds. We have prior experience at companies like Apple, Google, Landmark Health, and Adobe. Together, we’ve co-founded and exited multiple companies, managed large engineering and product teams, shipped features used by hundreds of millions of users, and led clinical teams supporting thousands of patients. We are funded by a group of top tier Silicon Valley investors and are working with some of the largest senior care organizations in the United States.