Honor exists to expand the world’s capacity to care.

We’re combining high tech with high-touch to deliver better home care for aging adults, better jobs for Care Professionals, and entirely new offerings to support the aging journey, at scale. 

Founded in 2014, and now a Series E funded “Unicorn” valued at over $1B, Honor leads the world’s largest home care network with the most advanced care platform. Our August 2021 acquisition of Home Instead has created a global company that’s revolutionizing how society cares for older adults, their families, and Care Professionals.

The Honor Care Platform combines local care and the most advanced technology to bring the highest quality care to more aging adults. 

Grow at Honor as part of a united team where everyone shows up authentically, shares ideas bravely, and solves complex problems! 

About the Work:

As a senior technical contributor, you will take a leadership role in defining the next generation of care operations systems used by caregiving business owners and employees worldwide. We're looking for seasoned engineers who are excited to refine market-leading SaaS, invent recommendation systems, and work closely with data science and data analytics to achieve new performance levels of operations and high levels of quality care.

This position is on our Growth Technology team that builds and supports systems for small businesses delivering care operations.  Hundreds of small businesses world wide depend on our systems of proprietary and market-leading software to operate their caregiving business.  You will deliver new systems and functionality to drive operations workflow with recommendations, prioritization, and automation.  We tackle processes from Home caregiver hiring to staffing assignments to demand generation and cost optimization.  

We have an exciting runway ahead of us. As Honor’s Care Platform grows quickly, building robust and scalable systems is critical. As we make strategic technical investments to modernize our system, we are looking for a senior engineer to help execute our short and long-term architecture goals.

The tech stack you'll work with includes: Python, Thrift, MySQL, AWS, JavaScript, Looker, GitHub, DataDog

About you:

  • You thrive in a diverse, cross-functional team, collaborating with people throughout the company
  • You enjoy building clean interfaces and connecting them to backend services
  • You’ve built and maintained production-grade features in Python, or have transferable experience in common languages like Node.js and are willing to learn Python
  • You know how to design relational database models, and have used a relational database at scale
  • You’ve been a key contributor to the design and implementation of large, complex projects
  • You are comfortable working in and refactoring legacy, monolithic code
  • You are a strong communicator, both verbally and in writing
  • You have experience building distributed systems and cloud services like AWS, GCP
  • You are willing to participate in an on-call rotation in collaboration with our tier 1 support team (about 7 days per quarter)

Your skills and experience include:

  • Experience working at a technology startup
  • Experience working with an RPC architecture
  • You are knowledgeable about microservice architecture and best practices
  • You are comfortable with frontend development and have experience with JavaScript frameworks like React
  • Experience leveraging observability and monitoring tools like DataDog
  • You enjoy mentoring and spreading knowledge to other engineers

Perks & benefits:

  • Remote-first work model lets you work from anywhere in the U.S. and occasionally pop into a satellite office
  • Competitive salary
  • Equity in the company
  • Comprehensive medical, mental health, dental, vision, and life insurance
  • Employer-matched 401(k)
  • Flexible PTO (manager approval)
  • Diverse environment 
  • Monthly stipend to offset home office expenses

Our range reflects the hiring range for this position.  We use national average to determine pay as we are a remote first company.  Individual pay is based on a number of factors including qualifications, skills, experience, education, and training.


Base pay is just a part of our total rewards program.  Honor offers generous equity packages that increase with position level and responsibilities, and a 401K with up to a 4% employer match.
We provide medical, dental and vision coverage including zero cost plans for employees.  Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability and Life Insurance are fully employer paid with a voluntary additional Life Insurance option.  We offer a generous time off program, mental health benefits, wellness program, and discount program.

 

Hiring Salary Range
$171,500$200,000 USD

What’s next?

Honor is remote friendly! We're hiring across the U.S., with an entirely virtual interview and onboarding process. Most of our positions are remote/work from home and do not require permanent relocation. As conditions allow, we have office space for in-person collaboration in our San Francisco Bay Area, CA, Austin, TX, and Omaha, NE hubs. If you're looking for a great job that offers you the opportunity to work from home, we'd love to talk to you.

Want to know more about why Honor is a great place to work? Check out our perks!

We value people! These four people-centric values guide the ways we work and decisions we make every day. 

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Honor is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, political affiliation or belief. 

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