Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vector Health is a healthcare startup focused on improving access to financial aid for patients in rural hospitals. They are seeking a Data Platform Engineer to take ownership of the data backbone of their product, focusing on building data pipelines and ensuring seamless integration with their full stack environment.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end data platform: ingestion pipelines, transformations, models, and analytics
- Build scalable, HIPAA-compliant ETL/ELT pipelines using Python, SQL, and AWS services
- Design and maintain data models and schemas that power both product features and reporting
- Write and optimize queries, metrics, and dashboards to support hospitals and internal teams
- Develop data validation and monitoring systems to ensure reliability and trustworthiness
- Collaborate with full stack engineers to integrate pipelines and analytics into our Laravel/Vue product
- Contribute directly to the product codebase where data systems intersect with APIs and UI features
- Translate operational needs into data-driven features that scale with our customers
- Participate in architectural discussions on performance, scalability, and security
Skills
- 2–5 years of professional experience in data engineering, analytics, or software engineering
- Strong Python skills for data processing, pipelines, and automation
- Deep knowledge of SQL and database query optimization
- Experience designing and maintaining data pipelines, schemas, and ETL workflows
- Familiarity with backend frameworks (Laravel/PHP, Node, or similar) and willingness to work across the stack
- Understanding of cloud environments (AWS preferred) and version control (Git)
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving, collaborative, early-stage environment
- Experience with healthcare data (FHIR, HL7)
- Familiarity with data lakes, warehouses, or BI tools
- Applied statistics or ML experience to extract insights from patient/hospital data
- Exposure to DevOps practices for data (CI/CD, monitoring, infrastructure as code)
Benefits
- Hybrid role combining data engineering, analytics, and software development
- Work on a mission-driven healthcare startup
- Collaborate with a small, ambitious, and passionate team
- Grow quickly while solving challenging technical and real-world problems
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