Senior Data Acquisition Engineer

Summary

Join Zus, a shared health data platform, as a Senior Engineer on the Data Acquisition team. You will collaborate with founding leaders to build tools interacting with external health data networks, collecting patient information and loading it into Zus data stores. This role involves building complex data pipelines and microservices, utilizing AWS services like Step Functions, Lambda, DynamoDB, and S3. You will provide technical leadership, coach other engineers, and partner with product managers. The ideal candidate is scrappy, experienced with operationally stable data pipelines, and enjoys working in a fast-paced startup environment. The position offers competitive compensation, robust benefits, and the opportunity to contribute to a digital revolution in healthcare.

Requirements

• Have experience with operationally stable and cost efficient data pipelines
• Enjoy owning your work and seeing it deploy safely in production
• Have experience building backend software in any language (we use mostly Go with a bit of Node)
• Have some experience with at least one of the following: deployment technologies (Github actions, CodeDeploy, CircleCI), cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef)
• Are in the Boston metro and excited to collaborate in person on a hybrid schedule, or are remote (EST/CST) but willing to travel for in person collaboration occasionally

Responsibilities

• Build complex data pipelines
• Build microservices connecting to third party APIs
• Provide technical leadership, contributing to the architecture and design of the teams systems
• Coach others to become better engineers
• Partner with product managers and other Zusers

Preferred Qualifications

• Experienced in building and running large-scale systems in the cloud
• Experienced in building services and APIs used by third-party developers
• Knowledgeable about application security
• Experienced in working with healthcare data and APIs
• Familiar with the FHIR and/or TEFCA standards

Benefits

• Competitive compensation that reflects the value you bring to the team a combination of cash and equity
• Robust benefits that include health insurance, wellness benefits, 401k with a match, unlimited PTO
• Opportunity to work alongside a passionate team that is determined to help change the world (and have fun doing it)