Data Engineer

About Us

InStride Health’s mission is to deliver specialty anxiety and OCD care that works for every kid, teen, young adult, and family who needs it. Through this mission, we are expanding access to insurance-based care, increasing engagement in treatment, and improving treatment outcomes. We are doing this by combining research-backed clinical care and innovative technology to eliminate the major problems with care today: difficulty finding providers, months of waiting to be seen, arduous onboarding processes, and inconsistent use of evidence-based therapies and outcomes tracking. Our vision is to become the nation’s most trusted provider of pediatric anxiety and OCD care.

Team InStride Health: Our Core Values

• Give Heart: We lead with heart, treating patients and their families the way we want our loved ones to be treated. 
• Work Smart: We find smarter ways to solve hard problems and fix the broken mental health system by leveraging technology, diversity of thought, and innovation.
• Have Humility: We leave our egos at the door, empowering our team to collaborate, celebrate diversity, and adopt a growth mindset.
• Embrace Community: We all belong. We are in this together, and we never worry alone. We believe in each other and recognize that every voice matters.

We are looking for an experienced data engineer to aid in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable data pipelines, ensuring quality and reliability. You'll significantly contribute to data warehouse architecture and implementation (schema design, ETL, optimization). This role also involves close collaboration with analytics and BI teams to meet their data needs and support impactful reporting. This is a fully remote position. 

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and efficient ETL data pipelines using various programming languages (e.g., Python, SQL) and data processing frameworks.
• Implement data quality checks, monitoring, and alerting for all data pipelines to ensure data integrity and reliability.
• Optimize existing data pipelines for performance, cost-efficiency, and error handling.
• Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of data warehouse and data lake solutions, including schema design, data modeling, and indexing strategies.
• Manage and optimize data storage solutions (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery) for optimal query performance and cost-effectiveness.
• Ensure data security and compliance within the data warehouse environment.
• Work closely with data analysts, data scientists, and business intelligence developers to understand their data requirements and provide access to reliable, high-quality data.
• Assist in troubleshooting data-related issues and support data-driven decision-making.
• Develop and maintain documentation for data models, pipelines, and data sources to facilitate self-service analytics.
• Participate in code reviews, contribute to technical discussions, and provide constructive feedback to peers.
• Help mentor junior data engineers and share best practices for data engineering principles.
• Research and evaluate new data technologies and tools to improve the data infrastructure.

What You Need to Succeed in the Role

We're looking for a Data Engineer with:

• 3+ years of experience designing, developing, and deploying robust data pipelines and data warehouse solutions into environments.
• Experience working with Healthcare data is a plus.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical information in a straightforward, easy-to-understand manner to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• The ability to identify data quality issues, architectural inefficiencies, and performance bottlenecks during code reviews.
• Proficiency in designing and building data systems that are scalable and can handle future growth in data volume and complexity.
• A strong understanding of data integration methods, including APIs, webhooks, and various data ingestion techniques.
• The ability to debug and resolve complex production data issues efficiently.
• Experience working effectively within an engineering team, providing and receiving constructive feedback through structured pull requests.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, startup environment with tight deadlines.
• A highly collaborative mindset, dedicated to the company's success, and eager to share opinions and provide thoughtful feedback.
• An understanding of project prioritization and making effective tradeoffs between essential functionalities and nice-to-have features.
• The ability to learn quickly on the job and adapt to unfamiliar tools and technologies.
• Familiarity with our specific data tech stack (e.g., Redshift, Matillion, AWS, dbt, etc.) or similar technologies is a plus.

The expected annual salary for this role is between $115,000-$135,000.  Actual starting salary will be determined on an individualized basis and will be based on several factors including but not limited to specific skill set, work experience, etc.

Why Join Our Team

• Generous benefits package (401k with match, Flexible PTO, paid holidays, 4 week paid sabbatical, 12 week paid parental leave, health benefits starting on your first day, and more)
• Opportunity to join a mission-driven company that is changing the landscape of pediatric mental health treatment
• Chance to make a far-reaching impact by helping children and families access desperately-needed, evidence-based care
• Opportunity to work with talented and experienced team members who have devoted their lives to solving this problem
• Fully virtual: work from the comfort of your home with periodic in-person retreats

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DEIB)

We want to make our clinical services available for everyone, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or how you identify. To achieve this, we recognize we must continually make progress in building a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive team. Through these efforts, we support two primary objectives at InStride Health:

1. Providing high quality patient care to families. We are in a privileged position to support families during a vulnerable time in their lives. We approach all families and each other with compassion and are most effective as a diverse team where all individuals feel valued, respected, and accepted.
2. Building a mission-driven business that lasts. Specifically, we believe our commitment to a supportive culture improves innovation, decision-making, and efficiency.

We invite you to share any additional information about yourself or your experiences that may not be reflected in your CV. Inclusion of this information is completely voluntary.

Beware of fake job postings and offers. All official communications from InStride Health will come from email addresses ending in @instride.health. We will never ask for personal information such as Social Security numbers or bank details during the application process. If you receive a suspicious job offer or communication, please contact our recruitment team directly (talent@instride.health) to verify its authenticity.