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We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the eCommerce Engineering team at eHealth. This role will help design and build the company’s next-generation eCommerce experience. The eCommerce experience team delivers consistent, high quality and intuitive user experience across multiple surfaces. This team develops essential pillars of the eCommerce experience – unified schema using backend-for-frontend pattern, a modern component library and style library that’s part of an organization-wide design system. Using Backend-for-frontend, implemented in GraphQL, this team delivers a modern and extremely flexible network layer for frontend to integrate with. Component library and style library enables delivery of high quality, consistent experience at scale. This team also establishes best practices, standards and patterns for frontend development. The scope of this role includes multiple product areas – tools, shopping and customer center.

The role can 100% remote or hybrid from Santa Clara, Gold River, or Austin offices.

Attributes we are seeking

You have proven industry experience in software design and development. You are a solution-centric, results-oriented, and experienced Software Engineer. You want to “build what’s right, not what’s easy.” You will work with other engineers in a collaborative environment to improve the overall quality while achieving timely delivery of projects. You are ambitious, talented, and driven to make the team and project successful.

How you will make an impact

Deliver features/projects for e-commerce solutions across multiple customer channels and devices --Work with talented team of engineers to deliver top quality on challenging projects to delight customers and business stakeholders -- Collaborate with leaders in Engineering, Product Management, UX, and Design and Marketing teams giving input on what is both intuitive and feasible -- Contribute towards establishing development standards & evaluating technology choices -- Work in an environment where we move quickly, are always learning, and enjoy a challenge.

Basic Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or similar field

• 5+ years of working experience in rapid product development

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise with architecting and developing JavaScript ecosystem using NodeJS, ES6 standards

• Understanding of microservices architecture

• Experience with Web performance audits and optimizations

• Understanding of important performance metrics and performance enhancement techniques

• Experience collaborating with Product managers to help identify dependencies and break down features into individual engineering tasks

• Experience with CMS such as WordPress

• Experience collaborating with multiple engineering teams to deliver projects on time and with high quality

• Help developers with code review and technical challenges

• Identify and communicate project risks to the stack holders and suggest mitigation strategies

• Experience with implementing GraphQL

• Previous experience working with a large engineering team on a complex web application

• Familiarity with modern JavaScript frameworks such as Backbone, React, and Vue.js

• Experience with Oracle, MySQL & MongoDB

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eHealth is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity to all employees and applicants and to prohibit any discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. The foundation of these policies is our commitment to treat everyone fairly and equally and to have a bias-free work environment.

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