About Amwell and what they do
So Amwell is a leading digital health care company that's been around for 15 years. It is our mission to bring affordable quality health care to patients anytime of day, anywhere in the world. It's through our online web based platform that we can connect these patients that are seeking health care to the providers, including our vast network of providers on our platform. through mobile and web, we enable providers to do nearly everything they can do in a traditional brick and mortar doctor's office, from E prescribing, to making referrals to writing sick slips to do documentation in the largest EMR systems to pulling up visit history and prior medical history, including medications and allergies. We bring all of these provider workflows into the visit for the providers, essentially optimizing the online video experience for healthcare. It's why providers love us, it's why patients love us. And it's why Amwell continues to be at the forefront of this industry.
Tech stack and interesting projects engineers get to work on
So I love talking about our tech stack. And it's probably because I've worked for some companies where I was less excited to talk about our tech stack. We have a very modern technology stack here, our next-generation platform is built entirely in the cloud, we leverage AWS and its many managed services for all of the things that we don't want to build ourselves. So things that are undifferentiated, heavy lifting, we focus instead on a building the best in class, audio-video experience, and all of the integrations and such that I mentioned previously, our tech stack is modern, we use a very traditional microservices architecture, we have services built in both Java and Node. And we do some serverless stuff with lambdas and AWS, as well, our single page applications, and we have many of them. And these are the applications that are consumed by our services. We use a modern JavaScript application scale web technology, mostly TypeScript, and Angular. And again, heavily embedded in the AWS ecosystem for even our shared infrastructure. So even our infrastructure is infrastructure as code. And we deploy our shared infrastructure, just like we deploy other code through automation through our GitLab pipelines all the way out to the AWS environment.
What to expect during the interview process
The interview process at Amwell is very standard, very streamlined. We have been growing significantly over the last two years. So we've invested a lot in making the interview experience, streamlined, efficient and effective from both our side of things on the hiring side. And also for the candidates themselves. We traditionally start internally with our recruiting team, essentially doing a initial phone screen to qualify the resume to talk a little bit more about the company similar to what I'm doing today, talking about the roll. And from there, it's really usually an depending on seniority three to four, interviews, 30 to 45 minutes, a piece, we will, as an interviewing team, really plan to cover different material, we'll have at least one to two technical interviews where again, we're not looking for the syntax, we're not looking for an exact match with the technology that we use in our modern technology stack. We are looking for problem solvers for candidates that are comfortable thinking on their feet ask good questions, and that seem really interested incapable of learning the technology that we're we're working with.
How Amwell invests in their engineers
So we invest heavily in our engineering talent. We focus a lot around professional development, it is important to our success as a company, and it's usually very important to the great engineering talent that we bring on staff. We do lots of different types of training, technical trainings, leadership trainings, we have training budgets for hackathons, for things like conferences, local and in virtual these days as well. We just this past year actually went through a very hands-on AWS training for all of our engineering staff, over 500 people in engineering these days, all the way from the most senior managers, down to the lowest level engineers on staff. We did this bootcamp of both the developer track and the DevOps track, and even offered anyone that was interested the opportunity to go through the AWS certification at the close of that training, we feel it's absolutely important to stay on top of technology trends, to make sure everyone on staff, including those managers that may not even be working as closely ENCODE, understand the technology that we're doing so that we can make good decisions that we can essentially invest in the right type of technology, and help us scale as we continue to grow as a company.
About Amwell's culture
The culture at Amwell is highly collaborative, we have really three core values, one team, customer first and deliver awesome, and I think that sums up the type of environment, we have very well, we essentially have very little hierarchy, we are really trying to reduce the barriers to, for folks to work together on our most challenging problems, our most important initiatives, we encourage free thinking we want folks to raise their hand and offer suggestions. We encourage taking risks, we we think with risks, there is often lots of great innovation, there are rewards that come out of taking those risks. And sometimes those risks need to be more calculated depending on on the initiative, of course, but we encourage that we want folks to take that risk, if they're going to fail. We want folks to fail fast and pivot and make adjustments. And we encourage that type of behavior because that's essentially how we, how we grow, how we learn, and how we produce a better product at the end of the day.
Why now is the ideal time to join
Now is the best time to join Amwell we are going through exponential growth. We are building the most exciting platform that exists in the digital healthcare world. We are changing the way that healthcare is received. We are in a market that is growing that one of our biggest barriers in the past years ago was skepticism around telehealth, and that skepticism is is no more we are now a global company working with the best engineering talent and in every time zone. We are innovating and developing this best in class next generation using the most modern technology stack that is out there. We are in this continuous learning type environment where we're encouraging all of this engineering staff to take on those risks that I mentioned and to essentially help us remain and grow in this digital healthcare transformation.
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