Phare Health is on a mission to fundamentally reimagine healthcare payments by making reimbursement transparent and fair (/phare). We specifically focus on the most complex AI challenges that require novel R&D, with a team that blends AI researchers and engineers with clinicians, and payment experts.Founded by former leaders from DeepMind and Google Health and backed by General Catalyst, we’re scaling quickly - join us!
The RolePhare's delivery team is looking for a Software Engineer to own data ingestion to implement Phare’s platform at partner provider and payer systems. You’ll work closely with customer IT teams to integrate Phare via HL7, X12, SFTP, and API pipelines, resolving data fidelity issues along the way.
This is a hands-on role at the intersection of healthcare data, systems integration, and architecture. You’ll bridge our cutting-edge AI product with real-world health data infrastructure to ensure we can deliver a smooth, reliable experience for our customers.
What You’ll Do
Use Python and other object-oriented programming languages extensively
Participate in the core team leading end-to-end integration with provider and payer IT teams, from requirements gathering to go-live
Design and implement data pipelines (HL7, X12, SFTP, APIs) to connect EHR, claims, and payer systems into Phare
Set up validation & quality checks for integrity and accuracy of ingested data
Monitor data pipelines and services to ensure data is available reliably
Resolve data fidelity, transformation, and mapping challenges to ensure accurate, usable inputs for Phare’s models
Collaborate with Phare’s engineering, product, and data science teams to align technical integration and product requirements, improve data processing efficiency, reduce latency, and enhance overall system performance
Troubleshoot issues effectively across internal and external stakeholders
Document integration architectures and contribute to building repeatable, scalable integration playbooks
Ensure compliance with healthcare security and privacy standards, including HIPAA and data governance best practices
Problem Solver: Able to debug messy healthcare data and build solutions that are robust, scalable, and compliant
Systems Thinker: Experience architecting or scaling integrations that balance reliability, performance, and security
Collaborator: Skilled at working with customer IT teams, clinical/operations stakeholders, and internal product/engineering peers
Startup Mindset: Comfortable in a fast-moving environment, eager to take ownership and shape integration processes as we scale
Bonus Points
Experience with cloud-based integration platforms (AWS/GCP, Mirth, Redox, etc.)
Familiarity with cloud-based data workflows and scheduling/orchestration frameworks (e.g. Apache Airflow) is a plus
Familiarity with healthcare claims data and reimbursement workflows (e.g., in EHRs, claims, payer systems, or healthcare APIs)
Hands-on experience with HL7, X12, FHIR, SFTP pipelines, and healthcare interoperability standards
Exposure to data validation, analytics, or ML-driven use cases
Work side-by-side with world-class founders from DeepMind, Google Health, and Stanford
Help build a category-defining company tackling one of the most broken parts of healthcare
Grow into a leadership role as Phare scales, with potential to shape integration strategy and lead a growing team.
Benefits
Competitive salary (top-of-market depending on seniority, $150-220k) + equity
401(k) with company match
ICHRA health insurance plan tailored to your needs
Flexible PTO + bonus birthday day off
Hybrid New York HQ, with remote flexibility and “work from anywhere” up to 1-month/year
Collaborative team culture with 3-days/week at SoHo HQ (fully-remote considered on exception), regular outings, and twice-a-year offsite events
Hiring Process
Initial application
Intro call – discuss your background, career goals, and our mission
2 x Technical interviews – coding for real-world data challenges, and systems design
References – we ask for two
Culture interview – ways of working and chance to ask questions
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What We Do
Phare Health is bringing hospital administration and revenue cycle management into the large language model era. The firm develops AI technology for the back office to address the systemic challenges of healthcare finance and, by doing so, lead the industry in improving outcomes for hospitals, clinicians, and patients. Phare Health is backed by some of the best healthcare systems and investors in the world, with a founding team from DeepMind, Google and NYU.
