Virtasant is a leading cloud consulting services provider. We heavily focus on lift & shift, cloud-native development, cloud cost optimization, and migration services. As a consulting company, we often face the challenge of creating an engineering team in a matter of a week or two. To do that, we have created a secondary support business that runs a talent network and provides staffing services.Our client is a healthcare-focused company that builds software designed to make the process of expediting healthcare plans and approving procedures in record time so that both patients and doctors can focus on what's more important - health.The positionThis is a fantastic opportunity to join a high-caliber software engineering team that is growing quickly. You will build impactful healthcare technology on a modern technology stack, by excelling in building new functionalities that support our client's teams to evolve product offerings and clinical intelligence.It's a fully remote (of course!), full-time position for candidates in Africa or Eastern Europe who can either work on EST office hours (check what time it is in New York, for instance, and compare to your own to see what's the difference) or the candidate's local office hours. The candidate chooses.ResponsibilitiesWork on fast-paced, collaborative, agile teams to build and enhance a growing software platform togetherResponsible for end to end feature releases and platform enhancementsActively support the technical design process, bringing your expertise and analysis to help make data-driven decisionsContribute heavily to feature design, development, testing, and delivery of our client's cloud platform and web applicationsSupport all parts of our client's platform from the database to the frontendContinuously discover, understand, and implement new technologies & services to maximize development efficiencyContribute to a culture committed to testing, quality, and attention to detail by supporting best practices such as writing and maintaining comprehensive test coverageActively participate in ensuring our client maintains a disciplined approach to healthcare securityFoster a community of mentorship for junior engineers on your teamYour Background & RequirementsBachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent experienceExperience working on software development teams, building and deploying full-stack web applicationsPassionate about building quality products and want to own product development end-to-end, with excellent design and development standardsCollaborate closely with teammates in product and design to build applications providing healthcare practitioners with the highest quality user experienceExperience with common software development practices such as version control, unit testing, and CI/CDTeam player, interested in working in a fast-paced startup environmentA minimum of 4 full years of experience in the software development lifecycleExperience with data pipelines or applications using Java or Groovy or KotlinExperience building applications using React and TypeScriptHands-on experience leveraging test frameworks such as Cypress, Jest, Mocha, JUnit, or CucumberHands-on experience building applications on NoSQL technologiesHands-on in-depth experience building and maintaining services using either MongoDB Elasticsearch or KafkaYou can start as soon as possible, ideally immediatelyYou are located in either Africa or Eastern EuropeYou can work either ET (USA Eastern Time) office hours OR you can work your local office hours (it's up to you!)Nice To HavesPrior experience in healthcare and life sciencesFamiliarity with healthcare interoperability standards (HL7, FHIR)Experience with integration engines (like Mirth Connect, Mulesoft, etc.) for healthcare data exchange and transformationExperience with common software development practices such as version control, unit testing, and CI/CD (the team uses GitHub Actions)What We OfferRemote, full-time (40h/week)Monday to Friday, either USA Eastern Time office hours or your local office hours (up to you!)Long-term, no end date independent contractor agreementPayment in USD, by-weekly or monthly - your choice