Senior Software Engineer, Data

About Nayya

Founded in 2019, Nayya is on a mission to connect people’s most important information, so they can thrive in their health and wealth. Powered by AI and advanced analytics, Nayya’s platform transforms complex benefits experiences into intuitive, seamless, and ongoing interactions—meeting people meeting people's real world needs. As a trusted platform and partner to leading employers, benefits solutions, and HR tech providers, Nayya unlocks long-term value through helping employees live more resilient lives. Backed by strategic investors like ICONIQ, Felicis Ventures, SemperVirens, Workday Ventures, MetLife Nextgen Ventures, and ADP Ventures, Nayya is ushering in the future of health and wealth for all.

Your Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Software Engineer, Data to join our growing team at Nayya. In this role, you will lead the design and implementation of scalable internal APIs and services to access and enable the organization through data. You will work on building event processing infrastructure, high volume data APIs, and integrations with third party data sources and tools. We are looking for an expert who thrives in an environment that values impatience, excellence, resilience, and courage—a leader ready to make an immediate impact on our data infrastructure in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

As a Senior Software Engineer focused on data, you will play a key role in shaping our data systems' architecture, reliability, and performance while fostering innovation and collaboration across teams. This position provides an exciting opportunity to drive technical strategy and lead efforts to solidify and scale our data platform. The team maintains several internal facing services that enable access to highly sensitive data that powers our applications.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain our API integrations and internal data services.
• Enhance our data enrichment service to integrate with external/third party data sources.
• Maintain and improve an existing Python tech stack with a focus on security and scalability for data storage and API endpoints.
• Work with the internal stakeholders to build and maintain data access patterns to high volume data stores.
• Build and maintain SDKs used in our data pipelines to interface processing at scale with SORs.

Requirements

• Experienced Python developer with four years of expertise, building efficient and scalable solutions ideally at a start-up
• Strong experience with Terraform.
• Experience with an orchestration tool like Airflow, Dagster, etc.
• Experience building and maintaining APIs to serve data to internal stakeholders.
• Experience working with dataframes in one of PySpark, Pandas, Polars, etc.
• Familiarity with one or more RDBMS.
• Experience with AWS managed services and architecture.

Nice to haves:

• Data pipeline development and maintenance experience.
• Familiarity with implementing and using Apache Spark, AWS Glue, and/or EMR.
• Experience with Apache Hudi or other data lake platforms.
• Experience with data streaming pipelines and sources.
• Experience with AWS managed data engineering solutions.
• Experience with other languages such as Go, Ruby, and Javascript.

The salary range for New York based candidates for this role is $140,000-$175,000. We use a location factor to adjust this range for candidates that are located outside of geographic region of our New York office. Placement within the salary band is determined based on experience. 

Nayya is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics