Description:

Honor is a company focused on expanding the world’s capacity to care for aging adults through a combination of high technology and high-touch services.
The company was founded in 2014 and is now a Series E funded “Unicorn” valued at over $1B, leading the world’s largest home care network with an advanced care platform.
The Honor Care Platform aims to provide high-quality care to more aging adults by integrating local care with advanced technology.
The role of Staff Backend Engineer (Core Services) involves designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable distributed systems.
The Core Services team focuses on building abstractions for problems such as Identity & Access Management, Eventing service, Communication Service, and Location Service.
The ideal candidate will work with diverse, cross-functional teams and will have the opportunity to create a significant impact on the future evolution of Honor’s Care Platform.

Requirements:

Candidates must have at least 6 years of professional experience within a product-centric company.
Experience in designing and implementing large, complex projects is required.
Candidates should be comfortable working with and refactoring legacy, monolithic code.
Strong verbal and written communication skills are essential.
Experience in building and maintaining production-grade features in Python or transferable experience in languages like Node.js is necessary, with a willingness to learn Python.
Candidates should have experience building distributed systems and cloud services such as AWS or GCP.
A focus on leading through influence, empathy for customers, and a commitment to building impactful solutions is required.
Experience in defining, instrumenting, and measuring standards for quality, security, scalability, and availability is important.

The position offers a remote-first work model, allowing employees to work from anywhere in the U.S. with occasional visits to a satellite office.
Competitive salary and equity in the company are provided.
Comprehensive medical, mental health, dental, vision, and life insurance coverage is included.
An employer-matched 401(k) plan is available.
Flexible PTO is offered, subject to manager approval.
The company promotes a diverse environment, with women comprising more than half of the workforce and management team.
A monthly stipend is provided to offset home office expenses.