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Senior Software Engineer - Home Care

A Place for Mom

A Place for Mom

Software Engineering
New York, NY, USA
USD 130k-160k / year + Equity
Posted on Jun 12, 2025

Company Description

About A Place for Mom:

A Place for Mom is the leading online resource connecting families searching for senior care with a team of expert advisors providing insight-driven, personalized solutions. As the nation’s largest senior care advisory service, A Place for Mom helps hundreds of thousands of families every year navigate the complexities of finding the right senior care solution for their loved ones across home care, independent living, memory care, assisted living, and more. Established in 2000 as a family business, A Place for Mom employees are deeply committed to the company mission to enable caregivers to make the best senior care decisions. A Place for Mom fosters, cultivates, and preserves a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Our employees live the company values every day:

  • Mission Over Me: We find purpose in helping caregivers and their senior loved ones while approaching our work with empathy.
  • Do Hard Things: We are energized by solving challenging problems and see it as an opportunity to grow.
  • Drive Outcomes as a Team: We each own the outcome but can only achieve it as a team.
  • Win The Right Way: We see organizational integrity as the foundation for how we operate.
  • Embrace Change: We innovate and constantly evolve.

Job Description

We are looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer who will utilize a modern technology stack to update and maintain our internal core services. This role entails developing products and infrastructure as part of an engineering team composed of both developers and QA engineers.

This position reports to the Manager of Engineering - Home Care. You will leverage your knowledge and experience to Improve and maintain our Lead Platform infrastructure and Web Portals, own components of the code base, and leverage the latest technologies and design patterns. Your role will involve direct development of our products and infrastructure as well as testing and coordination with the entire Home Care engineering team.

Who you are:

The ideal candidate is a hands-on, outcome-oriented, technology-focused engineer with experience and passion to design, build, and support modern backend technologies. Additionally, they demonstrate a strong partnership with product teams and other engineering teams, ensuring alignment between technological innovation and product development goals.


What you will do:

  • Develop mission-critical projects and deliver platform capabilities end-to-end with high quality
  • Collaboratively design and build cloud native and service-oriented backend components and applications
  • Collaborate with team and peers to design complex applications, peer review code, and suggest optimization
  • Enable continuous deployment by championing quality engineering practices: linting, unit testing, e2e testing, pipeline automation
  • Collaborate with and influence product teams to build and maintain design system standards, processes, and adoption
  • Create reference material and help define engineering best practices as needed
  • Investigate and resolve any production issues from end user to service layer and work to prevent them
  • Passionately understand the user experience and create a beautiful web journey
  • Build and grow your engineering skills in different challenging areas and solve hard technical problems

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of engineering experience
  • Expert with TypeScript, NestJS and Node.js
  • Familiar with .NET from legacy Framework to Core
  • Familiar with common open source distributed middleware and components such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and MQ.
  • Thrives in fast-paced environments while building dependable, high quality solutions that scale effectively
  • In-depth knowledge of backend technologies, frameworks, and best practices.
  • Role model and champion modern ways-of-working such as Agile, DevOps and related practices, actively participate in an engineering community.
  • Takes ownership of keeping technical documentation for their features up to date.
  • Demonstrates competent problem-solving skills (e.g. debugging, analysis and instrumentation) in a context beyond code they've written


Compensation

  • Base Salary: $130-$160k + 10% Bonus
  • Benefits:
    • 401(k) plus match
    • Dental insurance
    • Health insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Paid Time Off

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Additional Information

A Place for Mom has recently become aware of the fraudulent use of our name on job postings and via recruiting emails that are illegitimate and not in any way associated with us. APFM will never ask you to provide sensitive personal information as part of the recruiting process, such as your social security number; send you any unsolicited job offers or employment contracts; require any fees, payments, or access to financial accounts; and/or extend an offer without conducting an interview.

If you suspect you are being scammed or have been scammed online, you may report the crime to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and obtain more information regarding online scams at the Federal Trade Commission.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

A Place for Mom uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit www.dhs.gov/E-Verify.