Senior Backend Software Engineer, Komodo Health
Curating big data and analytics on healthcare
Open for applications
Curating big data and analytics on healthcare
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To reduce the burden of disease.
Role
Who you are
- Significant experience optimizing data retrieval processes supporting API output, as above, ideally within a low query volume / high data volume environment
- Demonstrably deep experience with Python
- Demonstrably deep experience with relevant ‘big data’ processing either via Spark or through a modern MPP database like Snowflake or Redshift at TB to PB scale
- Experience designing APIs for use in web application development (synchronous vs asynchronous response patterns, caching strategies, etc)
- Experience with separate caching/cache invalidation strategies, particularly tiered strategies for highly variable unit volumes of data
- Experience with multiple relevant data storage platforms, and the ability to understand the benefits of drawbacks of each for specific types of read patterns (‘data lakes’ like S3/Hive-based systems, RDBMS, MPP platforms, KV/doc stores, etc)
- Understand and design for non-functional concerns such as performance, cost optimization, maintainability and developer experience
- Strong communication with engineers, product managers, data scientists and commercial teams
What the job involves
- As a Senior member of the team responsible for Komodo’s standardized approach to healthcare cohort generation, you are ensuring that every product in our catalog has a standard, performant approach to meeting their core data needs
- You are responsible for the backbone data retrieval and transformations required by our internal service layer used to serve cohort generation along a variety of dimensions - patients, payers, providers, etc
- This role is primarily backend-focused, but ties into the end-to-end function of the complex cohort generation queries served through the cohort generation API, ensuring adherence to SLAs, and for the underlying caching necessary to support the variety of distinct access patterns across our entire product suite
- Expanded or enhanced the UCC API’s internal data model to ensure timely performance for all types of cohort generation requests
- Designed and optimized caching strategies (including, perhaps, the inclusion of new data storage mediums/platforms) for cohort output, differentiated as needed to serve multiple distinct read patterns from consumers
- Recommended and implemented additional pre-calculation and caching strategies as needed to ensure that SLAs are met
- Promoted API versioning best practices and open API standards in development
- Partnered with product managers to understand the variety of internal and external cohort specification needs across a diverse set of use cases
- Ensured non-functional requirements are met, such as around developer experience and maintainability
- Managed tasks at an epic level to both raise the standard of engineering and continue to move new & existing functionality to meaningful mini/micro-services
- Set a high technical standard overall and be a mentoring resource for others on the team
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Komodo Health has built a healthcare map, an artificial intelligence and data analytics tool that tracks the healthcare encounters of well over 300 million patients. The service helps providers, pharmaceutical companies, and scientists identify opportunities for intervention and care improvements. It also helps them to analyze how products are performing in the market, identify at-risk patient groups, study the effectiveness of treatments, and detect patterns in drug and patient behavior.
Komodo Health’s comprehensive platform helps customers to better understand health and it is challenging the fragmentation of healthcare that contributes to inconsistent, unsatisfying results for both patients and providers. It has used its considerable amount of funding to focus on accelerating growth through further innovation and development of its enterprise technology platform, application suite and core data assets.
Komodo Health made cuts to its core team at the end 2022 as part of a restructuring following a large equity funding round. This is very likely to be part of a push for profitability as it gears up for an IPO. With its business strategy realigned, it is resuming hiring in all areas to continue to develop its product and grow its market share.
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2022
$200m
LATE VC
Mar 2021
$220m
SERIES E
Total funding: $514m
Company benefits
- Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Mobility across San Francisco and New York City Offices
- Paid Family leave
- Flexible working hours and flexible paid time off policy
- Personal wellness stipend
- 401(k) employer match
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Be Awesome: Be present. Respect your peers. Help foster a community of trusted relationships with your co-workers. Be someone people want to be around. Be creative and resourceful. Be accountable. Have integrity. Be passionate about contributing. Stay positive. Be open, honest and humble.
- Seek Growth: Challenge yourself and your peers. Grow as a person. Crave learning and development opportunities. Support healthy, constructive debate that advances our thinking and planning, and drives us forward as an organization. Stay nimble.
- Deliver “wow”: Always strive to exceed expectations, with your team, your customers and shareholders. Always work to deliver high quality through flawless execution. Build innovative solutions that create exceptional value. Focus on outcomes. Reward outperformance.
- Enjoy the Ride: Love being at work. Embrace change. Listen to and support your colleagues. Share. Learn from mistakes. Celebrate successes. It’s a marathon not a sprint, value the journey. Stay healthy physically and mentally.
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Founders
Arif Nathoo
(CEO)Studied Medicine at Harvard. Former Associate Principal at McKinsey & Co for 7 years. Became a Senior Advisor for 2 years.
Web Sun
(President)Previously worked in Sales and Marketing at Merck&Co. VP of Business Development at Campbell Alliance.
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