Senior Software Engineer, Sentinel

We Breathe Life Into Data

At Komodo Health, our mission is to reduce the global burden of disease. And we believe that smarter use of data is essential to this mission. That’s why we built the Healthcare Map — the industry’s largest, most complete, precise view of the U.S. healthcare system — by combining de-identified, real-world patient data with innovative algorithms and decades of clinical experience. The Healthcare Map serves as our foundation for a powerful suite of software applications, helping us answer healthcare’s most complex questions for our partners. Across the healthcare ecosystem, we’re helping our clients unlock critical insights to track detailed patient behaviors and treatment patterns, identify gaps in care, address unmet patient needs, and reduce the global burden of disease. 

As we pursue these goals, it remains essential to us that we stay grounded in our values: be awesome, seek growth, deliver “wow,” and enjoy the ride. At Komodo, you will be joining a team of ambitious, supportive Dragons with diverse backgrounds but a shared passion to deliver on our mission to reduce the burden of disease — and enjoy the journey along the way.

The Opportunity at Komodo Health

At Komodo Health, our mission is to reduce the global burden of disease. And we believe that smarter use of data is essential to this mission. That’s why we built the Healthcare Map — the industry’s largest, most complete, precise view of the U.S. healthcare system — by combining de-identified, real-world patient data with innovative algorithms and decades of clinical experience. The Healthcare Map serves as our foundation for a powerful suite of software applications, helping us answer healthcare’s most complex questions for our partners. Across the healthcare ecosystem, we’re helping our clients unlock critical insights to track detailed patient behaviors and treatment patterns, identify gaps in care, address unmet patient needs, and reduce the global burden of disease. 

As we pursue these goals, it remains essential to us that we stay grounded in our values: be awesome, seek growth, deliver “wow,” and enjoy the ride. 

Komodo Health leverages the latest data engineering technology such as Python, Airflow/Temporal, and Snowflake to tackle some of healthcare’s biggest challenges by transforming extraordinary amounts of data into rich and meaningful insights.

As a Data Engineer on Komodo Health’s team, you will be solving complex system and data challenges while helping build and scale our data platform that powers state-of-the-art interactive product experiences. You will enable smarter, more innovative uses of healthcare datasets by designing scalable backend systems, robust data pipelines and implementing best practices.

This role will collaborate with Product Managers, Customer Success Managers and Sales to understand system and data requirements and to develop the set of necessary services and data processing steps for creating said data products and insights.

This role will be a key contributor to the scalability of the data systems across our suite of product offerings, including the design and implementation of backend services and data pipelines. This person will be a part of a team delivering data products and insights to our customers either via our suite of product applications or any other delivery mechanisms.

Looking back on your first 12 months at Komodo Health, you will have…

• Build the foundational pieces of our data infrastructure, pipelines, and data services underlying our healthcare platform or products
• Led the creation of product engineering solutions for complex business requirements across different stakeholders including engineering, product and customers.
• Designed, architected and/or implemented systems for supporting data processing tasks, like metadata, configuration and/or data pipeline inputs.
• Led the development of improvements to data infrastructure, pipelines automation, codebase quality and/or data quality.
• Ensured non-functional requirements are met, such as costs, developer experience, reliability, maintainability and operations/support.
• Demonstrated expertise in one or multiple industry standard distributed systems technologies, ie. big data and scalable backend services, as well as collaborating in the architecting and/or implementation of improvements to existing tech stack.
• Sets a high bar for technical quality and mentored other engineers to achieve the same.
• Collaborated across different disciplines for creating innovative ways to engineer data insights. 
• Collaborated with stakeholders during business planning cycles. Documenting engineering requirements and designs. Presenting and influencing other partners teams to achieve technical alignments. 

What you bring to Komodo Health (required):

• Expertise with building scalable backend services using modern frameworks such as FastAPI. 
• Expertise with industry standard distributed systems (i.e. Spark/Databricks), data pipeline tools (e.g. Airflow/Temporal) and databases (ie. Snowflake, PostgreSQL). 
• Expertise with processes and toolings in the entire software development life cycle in an agile environment, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring&alerting. 
• Solid computer science skills and proficiency in programming languages like Python. Able to leverage industry standard design patterns and  engineering best practices.
• Demonstrated track-record of delivering products and features with varying degrees of complexity, and through several iterations of product development.
• Capable of quickly building expertise on an as-need basis on a new tech stack.. 
• Experience with systems level design, including support and operations. Understand and design for non-functional concerns such as performance, cost optimization, maintainability and developer experience. Relevant experience with cloud infrastructure technologies such as AWS.
• Mentor and/or train other engineers in relevant skills and/or technologies
• Knowledge of analytics, familiarity with a variety of numerical methods/algorithms and basic level understanding of ML algorithms.

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Compensation at Komodo Health

The pay range for each job posting reflects a minimum and maximum range of pay that we reasonably expect to pay across all U.S. locations and may span more than one career level. We carefully consider multiple business-related factors when determining compensation, including job-related skills, work experience, geographic work location, relevant training and certifications, business needs and market demands.

The U.S. national starting annual base pay for this role is listed below. This position may be eligible for performance-based bonuses as determined in the Company’s sole discretion and in accordance with a written agreement or plan.$162,000—$253,000 USD

Where You’ll Work

Komodo Health has a hybrid work model; we recognize the power of choice and importance of flexibility for the well-being of both our company and our individual Dragons. Roles may be completely remote based anywhere in the country listed, remote but based in a specific region, or local (commuting distance) to one of our hubs in San Francisco, New York City, or Chicago with remote work options. 

What We Offer

Positions may be eligible for company benefits in accordance with Company policy. We offer a competitive total rewards package including medical, dental and vision coverage along with a broad range of supplemental benefits including 401k Retirement Plan, prepaid legal assistance, and more. We also offer paid time off for vacation, sickness, holiday, and bereavement. We are pleased to be able to provide 100% company-paid life insurance and long-term disability insurance. This information is intended to be a general overview and may be modified by the Company due to business-related factors.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Komodo Health provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.