Full Stack Developer III, Policy Reporter, (Remote, Canada) – Mercalis

Title of the Job: Full Stack Developer III, Policy Reporter, (Remote, Canada)

Location: Vancouver, BC

Job Description: Overview:Policy Reporter offers a suite of insights products and consulting services to enhance market access strategies and patient support initiatives. By tracking payer policies in near real time, we ensure that the largest pharmaceutical, medical device and diagnostics manufacturers, leading academic institutions and organized provider groups have the most up-to-date data and evidence-based guidance to help patients access the therapies they need. For more information, please visit .We’re a team of engaged developers who love building reliable, scalable systems that solve direct customer problems. We’re an easy-going team and have found value in being open to learning new technologies and eager to dive into our applications to tackle a wide variety of technical issues.As a team we are making significant investments into our tech stack by improving our data structure, increasing automation, scalability, and software quality. We have a challenging problem of building a comprehensive database of payer policy data and keeping it up to date.Our technology stack is JavaScript, PHP, and Go, with PostgreSQL as our primary data store. Our single page application is written in React. Many of us are full stack developers and we care deeply about building quality products. Responsibilities:

• Provide technical leadership to the team. Including, but not limited to:

• Code reviews
• Code guidance, mentorship on software development best practices as needed
• Proactively identify roadblocks — analyze situations, coordinate troubleshooting and problem solving activities, ensure proper follow up for post-incident analysis are completed and implement necessary process improvements
• Contribute to projects to achieve project goals with a mix of front-end and back-end code dependent on the specific project
• Work towards departmental goals and objectives like improving accuracy of technical project estimates, improving critical test coverage, and overall code quality
• As a project’s technical lead, collaborate with teams outside of Engineering to ensure that all stakeholders understand project goals, requirements and realistic timelines

Qualifications:

• 5+ years building a variety of web applications
• Experience working with modern frameworks such as Rails, Zend, Laravel, or Django
• Experience working with React, webpack and other modern web development tool chains
• Strong competency with the React framework on both greenfield and brownfield projects
• Writes tests early on and values decoupled easily testable code
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering discipline or equivalent experience
• Excellent debugging, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills
• Knows how to structure applications for long term maintenance and ongoing flexibility
• Great communication skills (written and verbal), and be a fast learner
• Strong understanding of common web exploits with knowledge on how to prevent them
• Experience writing and reading RESTful APIs
• Very comfortable with PostgreSQL

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package including extended health benefits, paid-time off, volunteer leave, employer-matching retirement savings, etc and company paid Employee Assistance Program
• Excellent opportunities for personal and career development.
• Collaborative and supportive Company culture

Policy Reporter’s Core Values

• Excellence
• Value & Respect
• Continuous Learning
• Ownership & Accountability
• Teamwork

Salary:$100,000 – $110,000 CADPolicy Reporter is committed to Employment Equity. Accommodations during the recruitment process are available upon request for candidates with disabilities.

Company Name: Mercalis

Salary: $100000 – 110000 per year

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