Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ELLKAY provides healthcare data management, interoperability, and connectivity solutions for healthcare organizations. The Staff Engineer - Data Platform & APIs will design and build scalable backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and cloud-native components while providing technical leadership across data engineering, API architecture, and cloud platform development.
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and platform components
- Define standards for REST APIs, asynchronous APIs, event-driven processing, batch interfaces, versioning, authentication, authorization, retries, and idempotency
- Develop reusable services for ingestion, transformation, validation, reconciliation, data access, and workflow orchestration
- Build cloud-native solutions using AWS, Snowflake, SQL, Python, Java or equivalent backend technologies
- Design services capable of supporting large-scale healthcare data processing while maintaining security, reliability, and auditability
- Establish reusable API contracts, SDKs, templates, and engineering patterns for product and platform teams
- Implement automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure integration, observability, logging, metrics, alerting, and operational dashboards
- Improve the performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency of platform services and data-processing workloads
- Partner with Data Platform, Data Architecture, Migration, LKOasis, LKOpera, eMPI, Interoperability, and AI/ML teams
- Lead technical design reviews and guide teams on backend, API, data-processing, and cloud architecture decisions
- Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards without having direct employee-management responsibility
- Investigate complex production issues and lead root-cause analysis and permanent remediation
- Create architecture documentation, API specifications, operating procedures, and reusable implementation guides
Skills
- Strong experience building enterprise backend platforms and APIs
- Hands-on data-engineering experience involving ingestion, transformation, and large-scale processing
- Experience with AWS and modern cloud-native architecture
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, API design, event-driven processing, security, and observability
- Ability to operate as a senior technical leader across multiple teams
- Healthcare data or interoperability experience is preferred but not required
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits
- Employer-paid Life and LTD
- 401k w/ matching – once eligibility is met
- Work/life balance
- Paid Volunteer Program
- Flexible working hours
- Generous FTO
- Remote work options
- Employee Discounts
- Parental Leave
- Gym membership / Exercise class stipends
- Working with talented, collaborative, and friendly people who love what they do
- Professional growth within
- Innovation environment
- On site in HQ Free daily lunches
- Hybrid workplace, offering employees flexibility in how they structure their time between in-office and remote work
- For those who do not live within 40 miles of one of our offices, remote work may be considered for candidates whose skills and experience strongly align with the role
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