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 on the Platform team, 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
Lead hands-on the design, implementation, and maintenance of highly scalable, high-quality backend APIs, services, and the most complex features of the data platform.Significant experience designing APIs for use in web application development (synchronous vs asynchronous response patterns, caching strategies, graphql, etc)
Significant experience optimizing data retrieval processes supporting API output, as above, ideally within a low query volume / high data volume environment.
Demonstrably deep experience with Python, GraphQL
Demonstrably deep experience with relevant ‘big data’ processing either via Spark or through a modern MPP database like Snowflake, ideally with experience in both
Experience with separate caching/cache invalidation strategies, particularly tiered strategies for highly variable unit volumes of data
Experience with multiple relevant data storage platforms and the ability to understand the benefits and drawbacks of each for specific types of read patterns (‘data lakes’ like S3/Hive-based systems, Iceberg, RDBMS, MPP platforms, KV/doc stores, etc)
Understand and design for non-functional concerns such as performance, cost optimization, maintainability, and developer experience.
Strong communication with engineers, product managers, and salespeople.

Location: US PST time zone only

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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.

$153,000—$238,000 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.