Kyruus Health Software Engineering Intern
Hack.Diversity, Inc., United States

Kyruus Health’s mission is to connect people to the right care, in pursuit of our vision: a better healthcare system- one that’s transparent and accessible- where everyone gets the care they need.

At Kyruus Health, our values are at the heart of everything we do:

• We care deeply We do the right thing even if it’s the harder thing.
• We are fiercely driven We harness our curiosity to pursue continuous improvement and create simple solutions to complex problems.
• We lead with respect We celebrate the individual traits that make each of us unique and seek out diverse voices to listen and learn.
• We are accountable We do what we promise for each other and our customers.

What you will do in a Software Engineer Internship role at Kyruus Health:

• You’ll work closely with customer-facing employees on other teams to understand the needs of our customers, and set up our platform to provide the best experience for them and the patients they serve.
• Your typical day will include attending Agile standups, writing configuration files, using internal tools like Jenkins, testing your changes, and reviewing others’ changes.
• You’ll participate in and contribute to Agile team activities. You’ll triage work
• assigned to the team, ensure it’s ready to be worked on, and estimate the level of effort.
• You’ll apply Kyruus Health’s software engineering best practices, coding standards and patterns for development and deployment.
• You’ll respond to alerts about possible errors in our system. You’ll help solve outages, participate in retrospectives, and implement countermeasures to prevent similar issues from recurring.
• You’ll create tools and documentation for internal teams like Delivery to understand how our systems work and to enable them to onboard customers in a timely manner.
• You’ll report to the Manager, Engineering within the Engineering amp; Technology Division.

You’ll use your entry level experience (1+ years) and/or education in programming to:

• Help the Agile team execute on internal and external commitments on time
• You’ll use your experience in/familiarity with technologies relevant to Kyruus Health to: Improve and maintain our data pipeline and internal data management tools.
• Think creatively about how to use technology and tools to solve problems faced by our users and customers.
• Escalate issues to your Agile team in a timely manner.
• Troubleshoot issues and debug code to find the root cause of issues and develop countermeasures to address them.
• You complete your tasks reliably and on time to help the team achieve roadmap goals and customer commits.
• You collaborate with Kyruus Health employees on other teams to understand the problem you’re trying to solve, and work with them to implement solutions.
• You test your changes thoroughly to ensure that your solution meets the acceptance criteria and does not introduce bugs.
• You ask for help when you’re blocked and invest in learning from mentors as well as seek training opportunities to improve your skills as a software engineer.
• You are assigned tasks of increasing levels of complexity that you’re able to complete with growing confidence.
• You contribute to improving your team’s software development and deployment processes and are able to demonstrate a high degree of predictability and accountability in delivering your work.

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