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Overview: who is virgin pulse? virgin pulse, founded as part of sir richard branson’s famed virgin group, helps organizations build employee health and wellbeing into the dna of their corporate culturesAs the only company to deliver a powerful, mobile-first digital platform infused with live services, including coaching and biometric screenings, virgin pulse’s takes a high-tech-meets-high-touch-approach to engage employees in improving across all aspects of their health and wellbeing, every day – from prevention and building a healthy lifestyle to condition and disease management to condition reversal, all while engaging users daily in building and sustaining healthy habits and behaviorsA global leader in health and wellbeing, virgin pulse is committed to helping change lives and businesses around the world for good so that people and organizations can thrive, togetherToday, more than 3100 organizations across the globe are using virgin pulse’s solutions to improve health, employee wellbeing and engagement, reduce costs and create strong workplace cultures.
Who are our employees? at virgin pulse we’re passionate about changing lives for goodWe want to make a difference in the world by helping people be healthy so they can perform at their best, every day, at work and homeOur award-winning solutions support leading employers in improving and simplifying the employee health and wellbeing journey and engaging people in all aspects of their healthBut our world-class products and programs are nothing without our people – the employees who design, build, promote, sell, test and perfect the latest innovations in workplace health and wellbeingOur people are our top priority and we invest in their health and happinessAt virgin pulse, we have so much more than a strong, supportive company culture – have a shared vision for a healthier, happier world.
Virgin pulse values and celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employeesWe believe in creating teams made up of individuals with various backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, inspires innovation, collaboration, and challenges us to produce better solutionsAs a global employer, we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate poolAs we are committed to diversifying our company, we strongly encourage candidates that are historically underrepresented in the tech industry to apply.
Our technology our next generation saas platform is using an exciting mixture of technologies: large scale, public-facing websites built in angular/angular2 and leveraging tools like pug, grunt and npm to make things automated and repeatableOur java/kotlin-based rest api is built on spring boot and hibernate which serves traffic to both web and mobile consumersWe’re using a combination of both postgresql, cassandra and redisRedis, specifically, is used extensively in a distributed locking system, responsible for supporting real-time data processingWe use machine learning to personalize, recommend, and monitor services on our platformOur ml applications are packaged as containers with restful interfacesAll of this uses amazon web services extensively for stability and high availability.
We practice continuous integration using teamcity; as a result we have continual smaller releases to our environments (development, qa, staging, production), with integrated unit tests and code coverage analysis while eliminating the risk taken on with only a few large releases/product updatesResponsibilities: who you are you are an up and coming, skillful software professional who has the desire to become an associate software development engineer in test who is capable of performing testing and quality assurance for our growing engineering teamYou will be responsible for creating and implementing automation tests to ensure quality and expected functionalityYou seek to work with others to best understand business requirements in order to develop corresponding test plans, test cases and test data, as well as execute manual testing scenarios when appropriateFocus, enthusiasm, a dedication to excellence and constant desire to learn are all personal characteristics you possess which are highly valued in the vp organization.
In order to represent the best of what we have to offer you come to us with a multitude of abilities in order to successfully contribute to the teamYou are able to skillfully:
Develop new automation tests and contribute to continuous delivery
Work with affected business and user areas to develop and document detailed test suites using our behavior driven development model.
Provide project management with software testing effort estimates for project planning and scheduling purposes.
Thoroughly analyze test execution results to ensure that the work products comply with approved design and documented requirements.
Report all defects discovered using defined defect reporting processes.
Actively participates in requirements and design reviews, release readiness reviews and other inspections.
Participate in the coordination and monitoring of software development activities including all related meetings, walkthroughs, technical reviews, testing, and problem resolution.
Assist in the gathering and analyzing of testing metrics and suggests process improvements to improve the software development and testing processes including performance testing and monitoring.
Prioritize and delegate projects and tasks as needed.
Coordinate with business stakeholders and escalate issues as needed.
Provide ongoing process improvement and efficiency metrics for the department.
Be adaptable enough to work on whatever is necessary to finish tasks
Qualifications: what are we looking for in a new hire: hiring is the most important thing a growing business needs to do wellWe look for engineers who have the following three attributes: they are technical, versatile, and data driven.
Since each engineering team operates with a high degree of autonomy, the work to deliver software involves many functions from sprint to sprint with a model of `build it, run it`As we hire, we are looking for engineers who are good communicators and can do more than just writing codeVersatility and making decisions based on data are important attributes of working in engineering.
You will:
Design and test new platform components, features, and enhancements for our platform
Collaborate with agile cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
Triage, analyze and improve app performance in production
Participate in sprint ceremonies to design solutions, estimate effort, and collaborate with the team to effectively plan work
Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
Monitor platform performance tools in production and raise awareness to team
You are someone with:
1+ years of development experience in java, angular or similar tech stacks
Outstanding problem-solving skills and a solid grasp of object-oriented programming
Solid understanding of the full software development life cycle
Strong communication skills, openness to collaborate, and enthusiasm to deliver as a part of a team
A passion and drive for learning technologies and applying them pragmatically
An ability to contribute to a technical discussion and the openness to listen and learn from your peers
You should at least be familiar with:
Experience with modern (restful) web applications
Experience with java, kotlin, angular, or similar language dev skills
Experience with sql; postgresql is a plus
Experience with common front-end technologies such as angular, react, pug, bower/npm, grunt, etc.
Experience writing unit tests
Agile scrum or kanban methodologies
What makes you stand out:
Spring boot framework
Cassandra / redis
Aws/sns/sqs/rds
Terraform / puppet / ansible
Maven/gradle
Understanding software architecture in the cloud (aws and/or salesforce health cloud)
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Security competencies: work to maintain system and data security at a high standard, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the virgin pulse application is not compromisedAdhere to industry best practice coding standards and verify all code developed at virgin pulse is free from bugs and security vulnerabilities such as those defined and published by owasp.
Why work here? we believe a career should provide competitive pay and benefits, a collaborative and supportive work environment, strong employee culture and cutting-edge technology and services — so many reasons to love it here.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected class status.
