Lead Software Engineer
Datavant is a rapidly growing healthcare technology company with a mission to connect the world’s health data. By eliminating data silos in the healthcare industry, we aim to unlock opportunities to accelerate clinical data exchange, medical research, and help organizations design better ways to facilitate access, affordability, and quality of care leading to better patient outcomes.
By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a highly collaborative, fully remote team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare. We look for 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 (no office locations) and we empower Datavanters to shape their working environment in a way that suits their needs -- learn more here!
At Datavant we are excited to meet engineers who problem solve, build, and understand the methodologies and underlying concepts of software engineering. As an experienced leader, you will join the team with the autonomy and decision rights to immediately begin shaping our healthcare data ecosystem for our clients. Our goal is to connect the world’s health data and as a Lead Engineer you will work on the architecture and design level solutioning of our product while also driving implementation and helping to mentor other team members. If you are looking for a rapidly growing engineering team focused on delivering meaningful impact through innovative technology solutions, this is the team and role for you!
You Will:
- Lead the engineering, scalability and overall development of your products
- Guide other engineers in growing the most cutting edge solutions for our health data ecosystem
- Work with Product and other business groups to drive innovation and deliver for our clients
- Stay abreast of current technology trends and leverage best practices to develop our groundbreaking solutions
- Work with our modern tech stack including: AWS, Python, Javascript, Java, Git, Snowflake and more
What You Will Bring to the Table:
- Exceptional ability to write scalable, production-ready code
- Strong competence in building and scaling data flows
- Great at working with non-artificial intelligence: good team player, and exceptional communicator
- Readiness to thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Excitement about the ambiguity of an entrepreneurial, rapidly growing company, and able to juggle many projects and responsibilities code reviews, disseminating requirements to the team
- 6+ years of experience writing production ready code, performing code reviews, and working on full stack design and architecture of applications
- Demonstrated experience with leading projects, migrations, leading from the front
- Bonus points if you have experience with healthcare interoperability ie. FHIR, HL7 and IHE profiles
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 environment where anyone can contribute, the best ideas win, and personal growth is driven by expanding impact and less by title. This means we default to simple job titles (e.g., Software Engineer) rather than complex ones (e.g., Senior Software Engineer). The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job. The estimated salary range for this role is $180,000 - $350,000.
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