Remote Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join a team of ambitious Dragons at Komodo Health and contribute to reducing the global burden of disease. As a member of the team responsible for standardized approach to healthcare cohort generation, you will ensure timely performance for all types of cohort generation requests and design optimized caching strategies.

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

• Medical
• Dental
• 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