Get to know Engineering

Our culture is rooted in empathy and collaboration. We love building products that help our clients (seniors) as well as our caregivers (primarily women of color), both historically marginalized classes underserved by design and technology. We believe the best solutions come from leveraging different perspectives and strengths so we are constantly pulling in one another to vet our thinking. We work closely with Design and PM throughout a project lifecycle, gaining a closer view on how other teammates work through challenges, and contribute to early discussion on product approaches and implementation strategies.

Our product is a human experience (a caregiver providing care). As a product team, our job is to solve the complex logistics of delivering that experience. Here are two examples of some exciting projects we’ve worked on recently. First, a new performance view in the Honor Care Pro app: A key challenge we face at Honor is how to best manage and motivate a large, distributed workforce. One way we do this is by delivering more transparency to our caregivers to better enable them to do great work. In this project, we provided caregivers a view in their app that showed their performance on several key dimensions, giving them a clear, shared framework for evaluating their performance and celebrating their hard work. It seems small but this was a huge innovation for the industry. Another exciting project was our in-house analytics infrastructure: This was an Engineering-led project that was both technically challenging but also an opportunity for our technical leads to put on their PM hats and drive the project forward through multiple iterations. Engineers are expected to set up their own analytics for projects but we lacked the infrastructure to do this quickly and efficiently over time. We had to dig into our own pain points to uncover the simplest, impactful solution to our use cases. We didn’t need a robust system to handle a crazy amount of data for generic use, we simply needed to support our own scale of data ingestion.

We’re a team of passionate problem-solvers. We value strong, lightweight approaches that enable us to move on to the next big challenge. We prioritize simple solutions that resonate with our users, not the latest trending technologies or design. If you too like working with other people to solve complex logistical problems, care about the quality and impact of your work, and are proactive in filling in gaps you’ll accomplish a lot at Honor.

Typically we start our days reviewing some code diffs, which is a small opportunity to take a look at what other folks are working on and what other problems are being tackled. Pod stand ups happen daily in the late morning/early afternoon with your cross-functional team. Then we typically break out to do some project work, either heads down coding time or some pairing to work through Engineering designs. Overall we are meeting-lite, but may have some sprinkled throughout the day to sync on in-progress tasks or discuss future goals with PM and Product Design. Occasionally we’ll have meetings with other Engineers cross-pod to talk about larger infrastructure projects or handovers.

We are hiring talented team members that can work from anywhere in the U.S. You have the opportunity to join a team remotely or pop into a satellite office occasionally based on where you live. Either way, we’re building a new way to stay connected, share ideas, and get more done—wherever you live.