Senior/Staff Software Engineer - Life Sciences

Datavant is a data platform company and the world’s leader in health data exchange. Our vision is that every healthcare decision is powered by the right data, at the right time, in the right format.

Our platform is powered by the largest, most diverse health data network in the U.S., enabling data to be secure, accessible and usable to inform better health decisions. Datavant is trusted by the world’s leading life sciences companies, government agencies, and those who deliver and pay for care. 

By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a high-performing, values-driven team. Together, we’re rising to the challenge of tackling some of healthcare’s most complex problems with technology-forward solutions. Datavanters bring a diversity of professional, educational and life experiences to realize our bold vision for healthcare.

Datavant protects, connects, and delivers the world’s health data to power better decisions and advance human health. We are a data logistics company for healthcare whose products and solutions enable organizations to move and connect data securely. Datavant has a network of networks consisting of thousands of organizations, more than 70,000 hospitals and clinics, 70% of the 100 largest health systems, and an ecosystem of 500+ real-world data partners.

By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a highly collaborative, remote-friendly team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare. We hire for three traits: we want people who are smart, nice, and get things done. We invest in our people and believe in hiring for high-potential and humble individuals who can rapidly grow their responsibilities as the company scales. Datavant is a distributed, remote-first team, and we empower Datavanters to shape their working environment in a way that suits their needs. 

At Datavant we value Engineers who problem-solve, build, and understand the methodologies and underlying concepts of software engineering. As a Software Engineer, you will be a major factor in growing our healthcare data ecosystem solution for our clients. Don’t know our tech stack well? We view technology as a means to solving problems and getting things done, we value talent over the current tech stack. You will provide hands-on resources who can work on the architect and design level while helping other team members. You will start meaningful work from day one and will be in a stretch role that can propel your career to higher levels.

What You Will Bring to the Table: 

• 2+ years of engineering experience writing software and refactoring the small parts (source code) as well as the big parts (services, applications, and whole systems).
• Willingness to learn new technologies, given the appropriate time and training.
• Experience creating at least one production system that grew to a size where you had to revisit some of your own design choices.
• A desire to continually grow in your professionalism, knowledge, and skill
• A willingness to center patients, healthcare providers, and the other people who depend on us as you make decisions.

The Impact You Will Make:

• Contribute to design, implementation, and overall development of your products
• Guide and mentor other engineers while developing cutting-edge solutions for our health data ecosystem
• Own substantial projects, take on more responsibility with fewer rules, and act like an owner
• Drive innovation and deliver valuable data solutions for our clients
• Work with our modern tech stack including Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Snowflake, AWS, Azure, and more
• Help contribute to our awesome tech blog - click here to check it out!

We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters where every Datavanter is empowered to bring their authentic self to their work. We are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

Our compensation philosophy is to be externally competitive, internally fair, and not win or lose on compensation. Salary ranges are developed with the support of benchmarks (competitive San Francisco rates for US-based roles) and industry best practices. 

We’re building a high-growth, high-autonomy culture. We rely less on job titles and more on cultivating an