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Doximity | Software Engineering, Data Science, DevOps | San Francisco (SOMA) or Remote | Full-time

We are the largest social network for doctors. What we do:

- Help doctors connect with each other, quickly and easily

- Keep healthcare professionals up to date by rapidly delivering clinical and impactful news, so they can focus on what matters the most -- their patients

- Help doctors refer patients quicker, build a referral network and recruit other doctors to their practice or health system

Where we stand:

- 70% of US doctors on the network

- 240 employees, half of which at SF SOMA office

- 60 engineers, 75 with data

- 1st in SF, 6th in US on Deloitte's 2016 Technology Fast 500 (https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/us/Documents/...)

Where to apply:

- Data Engineer http://grnh.se/kldfi61

- Data Integration Engineer http://grnh.se/nwmk3v1

- DevOps Engineer http://grnh.se/yq4xkr1

- Ruby on Rails Engineer http://grnh.se/8h1u2c1

- Android Software Engineer http://grnh.se/x078d61

- Test Automation Engineer http://grnh.se/62u4so1

- ... and more https://work.doximity.com/positions

Personal Note:

I've been with this company for almost 7 years and know many people here going on their, 3rd, 4th and 5th year anniversaries. It's the first place I've felt at home to work on stuff I love and continue to excel at my craft.

I’m also extremely proud of our founding team. Jeff Tangney is a second time founder. Our co-founders Nate Gross & Shari Buck have great experience and foresight in the medical industry. Just today, Huffington Post featured Shari Buck on being a female co-founder and the lessons she’s learned while building Doximity: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/5-things-i-wish-someone-...

I'm more than happy to have a personal chat with anyone about the company or any interested role, connect with me on LinkedIn and let me know it's via this post: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeybalachandran


I'm one of those software engineers happily approaching my 4th year anniversary at Doximity. It's a great place for career growth, with an emphasis on mentorship and promoting from within. Feel free to email bmanns at doximity.com or book a call at https://calendly.com/benmanns/hnjobs for a perspective from a remote Sr. Software Engineer.


Doximity (https://www.doximity.com) - San Fransisco, CA - Remote or Onsite - Permanent - Full Time

Ruby on Rails engineers, preferably full stack and helps to have experience in Go and JavaScript. https://doximity.theresumator.com/apply/jobs/details/I4u6BD

Doximity's passion for working with physicians is what helped us grow to No 1. We believe that when doctors are connected, patients benefit and the medical sector works better. Listening to what physicians need and then building simple tools to solve complex problems is what we do. Our vision is a future where medical communication is effortless — fast, simple, seamless and secure.

Doximity is made of developers, doctors, scientists, start-up founders, non-profit founders, ping-pong players, professional waterskiers. We're diverse - in fact, we're multilingual. Ruby is our preferred language, of course. While we're already the No. 1 network for physicians, we're not even close to being done with our goals.

We talk about our technology on our blog:

Engineering Stack: https://engineering.doximity.com/pages/engineering-stack

On-boarding: https://engineering.doximity.com/articles/software-engineeri...

Automating Workflows: https://engineering.doximity.com/articles/automating-workflo...

I'm involved in the hiring process, reach out to me on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeybalachandran) or via e-mail at jbalachandran@doximity.com. You won't be talking to any recruiters :)

Happy New Year,

Jey Balachandran


I'm working at Doximity with Rails and Go. Great team, interesting technical problems, and we actually make a difference in the medical care of others.

Some physician testimonies:

I was searching for clinical trials for one of my patients with severe eczema refractory to many therapies. In my search, I was referred to a nearby expert. Instead of calling the department, or trying to search through the many webpages of the hospital, I found the physician on Doximity and simply sent her a message via Doximity on my iPhone and got my patient set up with the clinical trial manager within a matter of hours.

I had a young gentleman with a vague brain surgery history who was brought in to my community ER by ambulance. He had altered mental status so he was unable to give me any information on his condition or history. Luckily EMS said he had surgery at a neighboring academic center. I contacted medical records at the other hospital but they said there was no record of the patient. Using Doximity I snapped a photo of the patient's wristband and face sheet. Turns out his DOB was wrong. Medical records faxed back his records just in time for me to arrange transfer before the patient lost his airway.

In addition to Jey, feel free to contact me on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmanns) or email at bmanns@doximity.com if you want a perspective from a remote engineer.


I joined Doximity earlier this year as a remote developer and I couldn't be happier. It's really cool having a true SF startup experience while still being outside the Bay Area.

If you're a Rails/JS developer out on the market, feel free to email me your resume and Github as well (skhan@doximity.com).

Unlike most startups you read about on TechCrunch, Doximity is already profitable and we're scaling fast (over 60% of US physicians on our medical network and 120+ people in the company). Our engineering team works hard at building software solutions for this lucrative market.

Lots of very talented full-stack engineers on our team, as well as a team of data science experts. Great opp for any solid Rails/JS developers looking for a change.

Sayem Khan

http://linkedin.com/in/sayemkhan | http://github.com/sayem


I have 2 questions:

1) Are you open to developers outside the US? I'm currently in Poland. 2) I have programming and test automation experience, but with Ruby on Rails I'm just a beginner (I'm not using it at work, just for personal projects). Are you open to "Rails rookies" too?


I've been at Doximity for over 5 years and can say it's an incredible company. Great team, challenging problems for a great cause.

Feel free to contact me as well if you'd like to find out more, bmiranda@doximity.com


You have a typo in "Francisco"


Doh! Unfortunately the post is over 2 hours old and not able to edit it :(



Spaces in your names should be encoded/decoded as %20.


30 minutes later I noticed my fan went into overdrive. Opened up Activity Monitor and noticed this: http://cl.ly/image/0Q3g3Q2b0V1j

It uses a minimum of 70% CPU after several minutes of usage. Needs to be fixed. Closing and re-opening the application solves it for 5-10 mins, then back to the same.


Jey. Please let us know config of your system & version of flutter u are using. Thanks for the feedback.


Love it. Volume controls would be nice, and I'm glad it's in the works.

Even with the limited functionality, I'd gladly pay for this.


Thank you. Good to know.


+1 for tig, you can also brew install tig


Thanks for writing this article and good luck with your venture. I'm not a doctor but my company works in healthcare and deals with the same physician related problems. So believe me when I say, I understand your pain.

Passing along patient information is a tricky subject due to HIPAA-compliancy. Most patient information is transmitted via fax machines and doctors are alerted of incidents through pagers, often carrying multiple. This technology is archaic and considering 75% of US physicians own some sort of Apple product there has to be change. In particular, physicians need better forms of communication that saves them time.

I'm hoping this changes as it will impact us all. It isn't going to happen overnight but with more and more physicians pushing for change in this area, one can only hope it happens sooner. If you're interested in what my company does, check out our website at https://www.doximity.com and our blog http://blog.doximity.com/ talks about similar problems.


I'd also recommend this book! Worth the read.


I used to do the same, recently I switched to MacVim. I found using Vim in Terminal/iTerm2 slowed down drastically after I worked with it for 10-15 minutes. Opening a file would take 1-1.5s, compared to MacVim which was instantaneous. I thought it was tied to a plugin, tried going barebones and still the same problem. (Although removing vim-rails sped it up a tiny bit.) Unable to diagnose it any further, I had to switch to MacVim.

Anyone else had similar problems and managed to resolve? Here is my dotfiles if you're curious https://github.com/jeyb/dotfiles.


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