Software Engineer (C++)

Company: Suki
Location: Redwood City
Posted on: June 2, 2021

Job Description:

What we want to accomplish and why we're hiring youSuki is creating a new category in the health tech space - the digital assistant. We are going to be the voice user interface for healthcare. What does that mean exactly? Currently doctors use their electronic medical record system to track patient encounters (a digital version of the old paper charts you use to see in the doctor's office and on TV). These systems can be hard to navigate and creating medical notes in these systems can be very time consuming. Time that a doctor would rather have to spend with patients. This is the problem we're solving right now! Doctors that use Suki spend 50%less time on administrative tasks and we are striving to do even more.We are a product driven company. Suki has one product running as a single service and we are focused on making that world class. Our platform team consists of DevOps, security, platform and back-end engineers that are committed to reliably and securely scaling our cloud platform to enable the rest of our engineering team. The team enables other engineering teams to work efficiently and provide standardized tooling, including monitoring, logging, etc.. We own the voice stack that powers the digital assistant.Our tech stack includes:Terraform, Kubernetes, GoLang, Python and various GCP services and we're going to scale it to support millions of hours of real-time streaming voice.What will you do everyday?You'll figure out the best way to standardize everything and constantly look for ways to make improvements. You will work directly on the platform that powers our microservices. You'll help scale our platform for thousands of doctors and help improve usability. You'll implement a microservices architecture and you'll use Cto do it all. And you'll be magnificent.Ok, you're sold, but what are we looking for in the perfect candidate?Expertise:You know how to code. You understand our tech stack and can be productive with it. In other words, you've done this before.Action oriented:You love to build. You like to ship fast and quickly iterate.Creativity:You enjoy listening to user feedback and then building product in novel ways. You're resourceful and enjoy finding alternate paths to success.Problem solving: you use data to help point you in the correct direction. You optimize relentlessly. You think business and engineering problems are like puzzles and you stick with them until they are solved.Humility:You're humble and love working in a team without ego to deliver productsAdaptability: You thrive in a fast-moving organization that uses light-weight process and cutting-edge technology to have a huge impact.Confidence:You trust your abilities and you're ready to push yourself to the next level.Requirements*3years experience in a software engineering roleProficient in C/C++Proven ability to build and maintain distributed backend services for ML/AI ApplicationsExperience taking product technical design from inception to productionStrong grasp of CS fundamentals including algorithms, data structures and design is preferred*Requirementsis such a strong word. We don't necessarily expect to find a candidate that has done everything we've listed, but you should be able to make a credible case that you've done most of it and are ready for the challenge of adding some new things to your resume.Tell me more about SukiSeries B raised this year!On a roll:Announced major partnerships with GoogleGreat team: Founded, managed and backed by successful veterans of Google and Apple in tech and UCSF and Stanford in medicine. We have technologists and doctors working side by side to solve difficult problems.Great investors:We're backed by Venrock, First Round Capital, Flare Capital Partners, Marc Benioff and others.Huge market:Disrupting a massive, growing $30billion market for transcription, dictation and order entry solutions - our vision is to become the voice user interface for healthcare, bringing innovation that relieves the administrative burden on doctors instead of adding to it.Great customers:Help our doctors save time in their day so they can focus on providing great care.Impact:A fun and exciting start-up culture that empowers its people to make a huge impact.Please note: this position is in Redwood City, CA and at this time we cannot support relocation or visa transitions. Accordingly, applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.Suki is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to building a company that fosters inclusion and belonging and reflects the diverse communities we serve across the country. We know we are stronger this way and we look forward to growing our team with these shared values.SDL2017

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