Remote Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Summary

Join a team of ambitious Dragons at Komodo Health to reduce the global burden of disease by generating medically related patient cohorts and ensuring timely performance for all types of cohort generation requests.

Requirements

• 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
• Experience designing APIs for use in web application development (synchronous vs asynchronous response patterns, caching strategies, etc)
• 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 of drawbacks of each for specific types of read patterns (‘data lakes’ like S3/Hive-based systems, RDBMS, MPP platforms, KV/doc stores, etc)
• Strong communication with engineers, product managers, data scientists, and commercial teams

Responsibilities

• Promote API versioning best practices and open API standards in development
• Partner with product managers to understand the variety of internal and external cohort specification needs across a diverse set of use cases
• Ensure non-functional requirements are met, such as around developer experience and maintainability
• Manage tasks at an epic level to both raise the standard of engineering and continue to move new & existing functionality to meaningful mini/micro-services
• Set a high technical standard overall and be a mentoring resource for others on the team

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package including medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401k Retirement Plan
• Prepaid legal assistance
• Paid time off for vacation, sickness, holiday, and bereavement
• 100% company-paid life insurance
• Long-term disability insurance