Senior Software Engineer

Abacus Insights is a mission-driven, rapid growth-stage technology company focused on transforming the healthcare payer industry, creating a more personalized patient experience, improving health outcomes, and lowering the overall cost of healthcare. Abacus Insights provides a flexible, efficient, and secure platform that organizes and exchanges healthcare data from various sources and formats, allowing our customers to uncover differentiated insights that address their clients' needs. Our employees know that they play an active role in keeping our customers' data safe and are responsible for ensuring that our comprehensive policies and practices are met. 

With our deep expertise in cloud-enabled technologies and knowledge of the healthcare industry, we have built an innovative data integration and management platform that allows healthcare payers access to data that has been historically siloed and inaccessible. Through our platform, these health insurance payers can ingest and manage all the data they need to transform their business by supporting their analytical, operational, and financial needs. 

Since our founding in 2017, Abacus has built a highly successful SaaS business, raising more than $81 Million by leading VC firms who have deep expertise in the healthcare and technology industries. We are solving problems of massive scale and complexity in an industry that is ready for disruption. We're growing quickly and would love for you to be a part of it! 

About the Role: 
Do you have a passion for the craft of software engineering? Our engineering team is looking for a motivated, versatile, and naturally curious Software engineer who is excited about using cutting edge cloud technology to better the US healthcare industry. This is a fantastic opportunity for an engineer to join a world-class engineering team and work cross functionally with other teams within our company: Executives, Product, Implementation, Delivery, Customer Success, and Sales, to help solve our customers' most challenging business and operational needs. 

Specific Duties include the following:  

• Develop and implement virtual, high performant cloud solutions which conform to US healthcare security standards by leveraging a broad level of experience across platforms like AWS, Azure, Databricks and Snowflake, realized through analytical work with end users, product managers and software/data architects.
• Build data processing pipelines leveraging AWS/Azure, Airbyte, Databricks, Snowflake and DBT
• Write PySpark, Python, and SQL code to meet requirements for clients or internal teams.
• Deploy code using CI/CD frameworks.
• Be able to critically analyze and review peer-authored designs and code.
• Employ exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to see and solve issues before they affect business productivity.
• Troubleshoot client reported incidents, identify root cause, fix, and document problems, and implement preventive measures.
• Optimize the performance and cost of data processing workflows.
• Demonstrate deep working knowledge of Airflow, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, APIs and data connectors and troubleshoot issues related to each.
• Drive the technical excellence of a team, mentor other team members and lead by example.
• Identify area of technical investments, work with stakeholders to prioritize them onto the roadmap and lead efforts to implement such investments. 

What We’re Looking For: 

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related IT discipline.
• 5+ years of commercial software development experience  
• 3+ years of building or using cloud services in a production environment (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.).
• 2+ years of building ETL data pipelines at scale with Spark/PySpark and Databricks
• Strong programming skills (Python, Java, or other OOP Languages).
• Go-getter with self-starter mindset.
• Someone who stays current with emerging technologies and development techniques
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; strong analytical, problem solving, organization and prioritization skills 

Equal Opportunity Employer 
As a mission-led technology company that is helping to drive better healthcare outcomes, Abacus Insights believes that the best innovation and value we can bring to our customers comes from diverse ideas, thoughts, experiences, and perspectives. We are dedicated to building diverse teams and providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants. Abacus prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type in regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.