Senior Staff Engineer (Tech Lead) Back End

Company: Apixio
Location: San Mateo
Posted on: January 9, 2021

Job Description:

The opportunity at Apixio:Apixio is a mission-driven data science company passionate to make the practice of medicine more science than art. We are looking for an experienced Staff Backend Engineer, who shares our vision, to join our winning team and help us make a difference.About you:

• You are smart, technically excellent and are passionate about backend systems, databases and extracting insights from data
• You enjoy connecting the dots in complex domains and care about data quality
• You have a drive to make the healthcare industry betterResponsibilities
  • You will be responsible for building and maintaining modern data pipelines that make data available and accessible to the entire company. The team works closely with Data scientists, Product Managers, Business analysts and other key parts of the business to understand their data requirements and build appropriate solutions and platforms.
    • You will be responsible for building and maintaining scalable and fault tolerant microservices to enable a real time streaming platform. You would understand the right patterns of breaking up a problem domain into communicating microservices architecture.
      • As a Staff Engineer you will lead by example, build a culture of technical excellence within the team. You will act as a tech lead for a small team of Software Engineers and take ownership over the quality of deliverables and future roadmap.
        • You will be expected to gain expert understanding of our complex domain model. You will be encouraged to come up with strategies to simplify our models, identify and fix data redundancies and inconsistencies.Qualifications
          • 7+ years of server side Software Engineering
          • 5+ years of experience building ETL pipelines
          • 5+ years of experience with databases - both SQL and noSQL
          • 3+ years acting as a Tech lead for a team of 3+ engineers
          • Experience with technologies like Cassandra, Kafka, Hbase, Hive, Parquet, Impala, Presto, Redshift, Bigquery is nice to have
          • Experience in converting business requirements into technical designsWhat Apixio can offer you
            • Meaningful work to improve the healthcare industry
            • Great compensation package
            • Exceptional benefits, including medical, dental and vision, FSA
            • 401k with matching
            • Generous Vacation Policy
            • Subsidized Gym membership/Wellness ProgramWhen we return to the office:
              • Catered lunches Monday-Friday
              • Parties, picnics and Friday Happy Hour
              • Free Parking
              • Modern open office in beautiful San Mateo, CAFor details on how we protect your information when you apply, please see our Privacy Notice

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