Senior Software Engineer in Big Data- Gateway & Data Health at Arcadia io | Powderkeg

Location: Remote or Boston, MA or Pittsburgh, PA

Employment Type: Full-time

Team: Distributed/Streaming Services

Due to Covid–19 we are working 100% remotely, this includes the hiring process. When it is safe to do so, we will return to a hybrid of onsite and remote work for some positions.

Why This Role Is Important To Arcadia

In this position you will work with a big data engineering group to design, build, install and test data processes which ingest, transform, and analyze data at petabyte scale. Leveraging technologies like Apache Spark and Apache Nifi, Scylla, and DC/OS, you will build the toolset to enable Arcadia’s data integration projects on cloud platforms such as AWS. The ideal candidate would be passionate about using technologies to solve complex problems in a distributed, non-homogeneous environment.

The ideal candidate will be motivated by bleeding edge technologies and methodologies, and excited to learn and apply them to the healthcare space. They bring a strong track record in developing and delivering software through all phases of the SDLC, including cross-functional collaboration to achieve business outcomes. They are passionate about data and problem solving and excited about the potential of that data to make meaningful change in healthcare.

What Success Looks Like

In 3 months

- Understand the high-level approaches and architecture employed by Arcadia to integrate and aggregate data

- Contribute to product development on high priority features across multiple software components managed by the team

In 6 months

- Achieve a deep understanding of the approaches and architecture employed by Arcadia to integrate and aggregate data by contributing to all components managed by the team

- Contribute to the design and build of more complex and impactful features

- Actively contribute to discussions around feature/system design and grooming

In 12 months

- Continued excellence in building and deploying product features and technical improvements

- Identify opportunities to eliminate technical debt and improve development and delivery practices and efficiencies

What You'll Be Doing

  • Designing and building software components that underpin the large-scale data ingestion and transformation pipelines at Arcadia
  • Recognizing common patterns in data integration and analysis and building the tools to apply those patterns at scale
  • Collaborating with and supporting data engineers who are building and supporting data pipelines to improve the developer experience and increase productivity
  • Performing code reviews
  • Developing unit and integration tests
  • Managing code repositories
  • Utilizing CI/CD pipelines to manage software delivery and deployment
  • Providing, analyzing, and responding to software development metrics such as Feature Lifecycle and Burn Down
  • Providing feedback and recommendations to improve software development processes
  • Interfacing with Product to groom features (epic definition, story estimates, task breakdown)

What You'll Bring

  • BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent hands-on experience
  • 5+ years of commercial software development experience
  • Experience in at least one of Scala, Java, and/or Python
  • Strong object oriented and/or functional programming fundamentals
  • Experience with distributed systems and technologies (Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, etc.)
  • Experience with ETL tools (Apache Nifi, Talend, Informatica, etc.) a plus
  • Familiarity with the challenges of working with large-scale, complex data sets and data pipelines
  • Familiarity with relational and/or NoSQL databases
  • Proven ability to deliver production software, including the use of Git/GitHub and CI tools
  • Commitment to learning new skills and improving upon existing ones

Would Love For You To Have

  • Healthcare data experience, such as EHR or Claims data
  • Working familiarity with healthcare data standards (HL7 v2, CCDA, FHIR, EDI)

What You'll Get

  • Be a part of a mission driven company that is transforming the healthcare industry by changing the way patients receive care
  • Chance to be surrounded by a team of extremely talented and dedicated individuals driven to succeed
  • Competitive compensation and amazing benefits including unlimited FTO
  • A flexible, remote friendly company with personality and heart
  • Employee driven programs and initiatives for personal and professional development
  • Be a member of the Arcadian and Barkadian Community

About Arcadia

Arcadia.io helps innovative healthcare systems and health plans around the country transform healthcare to reduce cost while improving patient health. We do this by aggregating massive amounts of clinical and claims data, applying algorithms to identify opportunities to provide better patient care, and making those opportunities actionable by physicians at the point of care in near-real time. We are passionate about helping our customers drive meaningful outcomes. We are growing fast and have emerged as the market leader in the highly competitive population health management software and value-based care services markets, and we have been recognized by industry analysts KLAS, IDC, Forrester and Chilmark for our leadership. For a better sense of our brand and products, please explore our website, our online resources, and our interactive Data Gallery.

This position is responsible for following all Security policies and procedures in order to protect all PHI under Arcadia's custodianship as well as Arcadia Intellectual Properties. For any security-specific roles, the responsibilities would be further defined by the hiring manager.

Job Summary
  • Job Title
    Senior Software Engineer in Big Data- Gateway & Data Health
  • Company
    Arcadia io
  • Location
    Burlington, MA
  • Employment Type
    Full time
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