Lead API - Business Services Engineer

February 14

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Progyny, Inc.

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Progyny, Inc. is a company that provides comprehensive reproductive health benefits with a focus on fertility, family building, and women's reproductive health. Their services include flexible and equitable fertility benefits such as IVF, IUI, adoption, and surrogacy, catering to a global workforce. Progyny is dedicated to achieving superior clinical outcomes and exceptional member experiences through their data-driven model. They offer an extensive network of providers, ensuring high-quality, accessible care. Progyny supports over 460 companies with varied industries, aiming to redefine employer benefits with solutions that encompass every stage of life, from preconception to menopause.

healthcare • medical • financing • fertility • egg freezing

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🤝 B2B

🧘 Wellness

📋 Description

• Direct (hands-on) participation in the implementation of data services frameworks, patterns, and non-functional support capabilities • Ability to guide engineering resources towards optimal models of modern software engineering, incorporating quality and time-to-market objectives pragmatically • Leadership of software engineers to guide towards next evolution of their career objectives, with consistent principles and servant leader mindset • Implementation of next generation interoperability capabilities with pragmatic balance of cutting edge vs. ‘tried-and-true' technology frameworks • Role model and influence a proactive approach to anticipating challenges for team to intentionally navigate to optimal outcomes • Work in conjunction with engineering leadership to incorporate strategic objectives and define work plans and resource mobilization models for team • Ensure effective execution by self and team to achieve delivery objectives • Provide strategic input and influence with internal and external stakeholders in the domain of general data interoperability (APIs, streaming, batch) • Mentor junior engineers in modern software engineering models that focus on contract-first development, shift-left of design and test functions, and distributed software development and release collaboration models • Mentor engineers and stakeholders in the development and deployment constraints and patterns for scalable platform API edge services

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years working in high-volume data services use cases (API, data mesh, microservices, etc.) • 10+ years in software development for moderate-to-large organizations with mature information technology and software engineering practices • 5+ years working in software Director role, with management and team leadership responsibilities • 5+ years experience with API development and data access patterns using Node.js and relevant data access models/frameworks (Express, Nest.js, etc.) • Experience with service contract models for synchronous and asynchronous API/RPC (ex: OpenAPI/Swagger, AsyncAPI) • Proven implementation experience and familiarity with variety of data exchange models, including HTTP or RPC-based APIs, streaming / event subscription models (SSE, Webhook), and batch exchange models • Deep knowledge of data exchange / API patterns and various models and tool suites for implementation (enterprise service bus, service mesh, edge API/transport gateways) • Familiarity with design patterns and architecture models relevant to data exchange (service-oriented architectures, event-driven architectures, data vs. Integration layers, etc.) • Experience in various API gateway and service proxy models, and associated security patterns • Experience in non-functional scaling patterns for data services (caching, stateless service design, referent models/HATEOS, and others)

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid family and parental leave • fertility and family building benefits (including egg freezing, IVF, and adoption support) • family care fund and Parents’ Employee Resource Group • Health, dental, vision and life insurance options for employees and family • Free in-person, virtual and text-based mental health and wellness support • Paid time off, including vacation, sick leave, personal days and summer flex time • Company equity • Bonus program • 401(k) plan with company match • Access to on-demand legal and financial advice • Company social events • Flex days (3 days a week in the office) and onsite meals and snacks for employees reporting into our NY office