Data Engineer

Position Description 

RubiconMD allows primary care clinicians to gain access to insights from medical specialists, so they are empowered to make better decisions for their patients. As a Data Engineer, you will help us design and expand systems that collect, manage, and transform raw data into usable information for analytical tools. In this role, you will work as part of a small team to establish and evangelize a data-driven culture. This team works with the engineering and product teams closely and will support non-engineering functions as well to utilize data for experimentation and improvement for all teams. 

Key responsibilities: 

• Managing and designing ETL system to ingest and transform data for  purposes of analysis and reporting; ensures monitoring, alerting, and high availability of the system to all data consumers both internal and external

• Write Airflow DAGs to execute tasks and collaborate with other engineers on solutions to deploy and update machine learning models 

• Use sound agile development practices (version control, testing, code reviewing, etc.) to develop and deliver data products

• Manage process and strategy for 3rd party data ingestion and export

• Help drive optimization, testing, and tooling to improve data quality

• Translate business needs into data requirements, with attention to detail

• Analyze, tune, troubleshoot and support the data infrastructure ensuring the performance, integrity, and security of data

• Collaborate with other engineers to build and evolve data models in various components of the data stack

• Implement data validation methods and data analysis tools

Desired skills and experience: 

• 1-4 years of experience as a data engineer/architect

• Experience with programmatic workflow systems (Airflow, Luigi)

• Strong Python skills

• Proficient in at least one of the SQL dialects (Redshift, PostgreSQL)

• Confidence and excitement around designing and improving ETL systems with associated methodology and approach required; experience building ETL systems a plus

• Independent self-starter

• Knowledgeable about data modeling, data access, and data storage techniques

• Understands the value of partnership within teams

• Experience supporting business intelligence/analytics platform

• Experience in data modeling, data governance and data discovery tools

• Interest in taking on learning and leadership opportunities that will arise

Compensation

The target salary range for this position is $125,000-140,000 and we anticipate that most qualified candidates will fall near the middle of this range. Compensation for the successful candidate will be determined by the candidate’s unique combination of knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. This role is also eligible for employee benefits and other compensation.

Our Hiring Philosophy

RubiconMD’s founding mission is to democratize medical expertise, so that all patient populations have access to the care they need. In order to deliver on this, we focus on empowering primary care providers, who we believe are the key to a thriving, equitable health care system. It’s no small order, but we can achieve it with the right team. That’s why we hire people with drive and leadership, who are also highly accountable—to each other, to the providers we serve, and to the impact we exist to make.

RubiconMD is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination against persons of any kind on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, nation of origin, age, disability, and genetics.

**COVID-19 vaccination is a condition of employment unless there is a legally protected reason for an accommodation.