Software Engineer
Posted 10 Mar 2025
Advertised as “Senior Software Engineer”
BranchFactor Summary
The original posting with the fluff stripped out
- Expected experience
- 6+ yrs
- Management level
- People management
- Employment
- Remote
- Visa sponsorship
- Not offered
No salary listed for this role.
Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare. Guided by our mission to make the world’s health data secure, accessible and actionable, we provide critical data solutions for organizations across the healthcare ecosystem - including providers, health plans, researchers, and life sciences companies. From fulfilling a single patient’s request for their medical records to powering the AI revolution in healthcare, Datavanters are building the future of how data is connected and used to improve health.
By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a driven and highly collaborative team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare.
Senior Software Engineer
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead major initiatives that advance Datavant’s platform scalability and reliability. You’ll drive technical design, coach peers, and ensure system-wide quality and consistency.
What You’ll Do
- Own architectural design and end-to-end delivery for key systems or migrations.
- Partner with Product, Infrastructure, and Security teams to set technical direction.
- Design scalable microservices and guide system decomposition initiatives.
- Drive performance optimization, observability, and reliability improvements.
- Mentor engineers at multiple levels and enhance team culture through best practices.
Tech Stack You’ll Work WithSenior engineers at this level are expected to leverage Datavant technologies effectively, demonstrate fluency across the stack, and use their architectural experience to design systems that are scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable within Datavant’s platform. Your work will span Datavant’s core platform technologies, including:
- Backend: Python, Go, Java; microservices; REST and GraphQL
- Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js
- Infrastructure & Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda), Docker, Kubernetes; IaC tools
- Data: Snowflake, Spark, SQL; S3 for raw data
- ETL & Pipelines: Airflow/Glue
- Streaming: Kafka or Kinesis
- Observability: DataDog, Grafana, CloudWatch
- Security: OAuth2/SAML, encryption, tokenization, zero-trust architecture
What You Bring
- 6+ years of professional experience developing and scaling distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in system design, cloud-native architectures, and backend frameworks.
- Proven record of leading major technical projects from inception to launch.