Senior Data Engineer
9am.healthTelemedicine company
United StatesSenior
Human Capital
Cigna Ventures
7wire Ventures
Leaps by Bayer
StartUp Health
Define Ventures
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows in Python using AWS Glue, Apache Spark, Airflow, or equivalent orchestration tools.
- •We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our lean, high-impact Data & Analytics team.
- •You will own and evolve the data platform that powers clinical operations, business intelligence, and AI initiatives.
- •Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows in Python using AWS Glue, Apache Spark, Airflow, or equivalent orchestration tools.
- •Write production-grade Python code for DWH logic, reporting jobs, data transformations, and internal tooling, following software engineering best practices (testing, code review, CI/CD).
- •Develop and optimize analytical data models (dimensional, OBT, or hybrid) that serve self-service BI and advanced analytics use cases.
- •Build and maintain dashboards, explores, and semantic layers in Looker and/or Tableau; serve as the analytics infrastructure owner ensuring data quality and governance.
- •Contribute backend application code in Java (Spring Boot) or Python to support data-intensive features, API integrations, and internal services.
- •Requirements 10+ years of professional experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or a hybrid data/backend software engineering role.
- •Strong software engineering background: this role requires someone who can write, test, debug, and ship production code, not just query data.
- •Expert-level Python: deep experience building production data pipelines, ETL logic, and reporting systems in Python.
- •Expert-level SQL: window functions, CTEs, recursive queries, query optimization, and performance tuning at scale.
- •Hands-on experience with AWS data services, specifically Glue, S3, Redshift, Athena, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, and IAM.
Required skills
PythonSQLAWSSparkAirflowdbtLookerJavaSpringRedshiftAthenaCloudFormationIAMAnthropic APIKubernetes
Nice-to-have skills
JavaSpringTerraformDockerCI/CDKubernetes
Domain expertise
healthcare
Benefits & perks
Health insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, Flexible PTO, Work from home options, Professional development budget
Tech stack
PythonSQLAWSSparkAirflowdbtLookerJavaSpringRedshiftAthenaCloudFormationIAMAnthropic APIKubernetesCI/CDDocker