Garner's mission is to transform the healthcare economy, delivering high quality and affordable care for all. By helping employers restructure their healthcare benefit to provide clear incentives and data-driven insights, we direct employees to higher quality and lower cost healthcare providers. The result is that patients get better health outcomes while doctors are rewarded for practicing well, not performing more procedures. We are backed by top-tier venture capital firms, are growing rapidly and looking to expand our team.
Garner is entering our next phase of scale, and we are looking for engineers who can help us build the systems we need to keep up with our customer demand. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will be a key architect of our technical direction and processes, serving as a high-level problem-solver and mentor to other engineers on the team.
Main Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain data pipelines that power our business
- Collaborate across disciplines to provide timely and accurate information
- Protect our users’ privacy and security through best practices
- Support our production operations and come up with solutions to lighten the operational load
- Design and optimize for the long term while moving fast and iteratively deliver for the short term
- Ideate on new features and work with data to find new insights
- Research and work with the latest tools and technologies
- Collaborate using our tech stack, including Python, AWS, NATS, Terraform, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Snowflake, and Kubernetes.
Ideal Qualifications:
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals
- 6+ years of industry experience building and maintaining scalable high-quality software
- 3+ years of hands-on experience building data pipelines
- Expertise in Python
- Expertise in SQL
- Expertise with Kubernetes
- Expertise with workflow engines (Argo preferred, but not required)
- Experience working with back-end APIs, and distributed event-driven architectures
- Experience with one or more database systems, especially PostgreSQL
- Experience working in a team using Agile methodologies
- Familiarity with data warehousing
Why You Should Join Our Team:
- You are mission-driven, have a high sense of ownership, and want to work at a company that can change the healthcare system
- You are not afraid of challenges and love to learn
- You design and optimize for the long term while moving fast and iteratively deliver for the short term
- You love ideating on new features and working with data to find new insights
- You’re excited about researching and working with the latest tools and technologies
The target salary range for this position is $230,000-$250,000 annually. Individual compensation for this role will depend on various factors, including qualifications, skills, and applicable laws. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible to participate in our equity incentive and competitive benefits plans.
Garner Health is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and values diversity in the workplace. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Garner Health is committed to providing accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at talent@getgarner.com.
Beware of job scam fraudsters! Our recruiters use getgarner.com email addresses exclusively. We do not post open roles on Indeed, conduct interviews via text, instant message, or Teams and we do not ask candidates to download software, purchase equipment through us, or to provide sensitive information such as bank account or social security numbers. If you have been contacted by someone claiming to be a Garner recruiter or hiring manager from a different domain about a job offer, please report it as potential job fraud to law enforcement here and to candidateprotection@getgarner.com
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