Senior Software Engineer, Platform

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:

Komodo aims to build the most accessible, actionable collection of healthcare data in the industry. Our diverse clients have a range of familiarity with healthcare technicalities and we strive to provide products designed to be simple enough for a layperson while also allowing power users to explore our data with all the depth and sophistication they require.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will help lead the development of Komodo Health’s platform-enabled workflow tools.  The Komodo platform powers all of Komodo’s current and future workflow analytical applications and enables 3rd party builders to integrate with, extend, customize, or build on the platform.

Reporting directly to the Engineering Director, you will be solving complex data challenges while designing and implementing data processing and transformation at a scale that powers state-of-the-art interactive product experiences. You will enable smarter, more innovative uses of healthcare data by building robust data pipelines and implementing data best practices. This position has potential to become engineering manager.

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

• Expanded or enhanced the Platform data integration APIs
• Designed and optimized caching strategies (including, perhaps, inclusion of new data storage mediums/platforms) for processing cohort outputs and running analytics
• Recommended and implemented additional pre-calculation and caching strategies as needed to ensure that SLAs are met
• Promoted API versioning best practices and open API standards in development
• Leveraged relevant AWS services (API gateway, lambdas, among others), updating as needed to take advantage of new beneficial features in support of the API
• Partnered with product managers to understand the variety of internal and external analytic specification needs across a diverse set of use cases

You will accomplish these outcomes through the following responsibilities…

• Partnering with Engineering team members, Product Managers, and customer-facing teams to understand complex health data use cases and business logic
• Being curious about our data
• Building foundational pieces of our data platform architecture, pipelines, analytics, and services underlying our platform 
• Designing and developing reliable data pipelines that transform data at scale, orchestrated jobs via Airflow/Temporal, using SQL and Python in Snowflake
• Contributing to python packages in Github and APIs, using current best practices
• Ensure non-functional requirements are met, such as around developer experience and maintainability 
• Managed technical dependencies between different microservices to ensure smooth operations 
• Set a high technical standard overall and be a mentoring resource for others on the team and in the larger organization

What you bring to Komodo Health (required):

• Minimum of 7-8 years of experience
• Expertise with building scalable backend services using modern frameworks such as FastAPI.
• 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 Python programming language. Able to leverage industry standard design patterns and  engineering best practices