Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Key Skills

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Apache Hive, API, Data science techniques, Database, Optimization, Python Programming

Job Description

The Opportunity at Komodo Health:

The generation of a medically related patient cohort is the gateway to all the work we do at Komodo Health.

Team: As a member of the team responsible for Komodo’s standardized approach to healthcare cohort generation, you are ensuring that every product in our catalog has a standard, performant approach to meeting their core data needs.

Mission: This role is primarily backend-focused, but ties into the end-to-end function of the complex cohort generation queries served through the cohort generation API, ensuring adherence to SLAs, and for the underlying caching necessary to support the variety of distinct access patterns across our entire product suite.

Looking back on your first 12 months at Komodo Health, you will have accomplished…

• Expanded or enhanced the UCC API’s internal data model to ensure timely performance for all types of cohort generation requests
• Designed and optimized caching strategies (including, perhaps, the inclusion of new data storage mediums/platforms) for cohort output, differentiated as needed to serve multiple distinct read patterns from consumers
• Recommended and implemented additional pre-calculation and caching strategies as needed to ensure that SLAs are met
• Transformed our internal service layer used to serve cohort generation along various dimensions - patients, payers, providers, etc. through successful retrieval of our data

You will accomplish these outcomes through the following 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

What you bring to Komodo Health (required):

• 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.

Additional skills and experience we’d prioritize (nice to have)…

• Demonstrably deep experience with relevant ‘big data’ processing either via Spark or through a modern MPP database like Snowflake or Redshift at TB to PB scale.
• Understand and design for non-functional concerns such as performance, cost optimization, maintainability, and developer experience.

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

This position will 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.