Backend Software Engineer, Komodo Health
$116.6-194.3k
+ Equity & bonus
Curating big data and analytics on healthcare
Job no longer available
Curating big data and analytics on healthcare
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$116.6-194.3k
+ Equity & bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To reduce the burden of disease.
Role
Who you are
- Significant experience designing APIs for use in web application development (synchronous vs asynchronous response patterns, caching strategies, graphql, etc)
- 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, ideally with experience in both
- 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, and salespeople
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer on Komodo Health’s Platform Analytics team, you will be focusing on our internal service layer used to serve a variety of axes - patients, payers, providers, etc
- You will enable complex queries supported through backend APIs, adhere to SLAs, and the underlying caching necessary to support multiple access patterns
- By exposing the power of Komodo’s data directly to consumers, and leveraging innovative caching techniques to create drillable, pivotable visualizations, you will help create a state-of-the-art interactive experience for internal and external users alike
- Looking back on your first 12 months at Komodo Health, you will have:
- Expanded or enhanced the Platform Analytic APIs
- Designed and optimized caching strategies (including, perhaps, inclusion of new data storage mediums/platforms) for processing cohort outputs and running analytics
- 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
- Leveraged relevant AWS services (API gateway, lambdas, among others), updating as needed to take advantage of new beneficial features in support of the API
- Partnered with product managers to understand the variety of internal and external analytic specification needs across a diverse set of use cases
- Ensured non-functional requirements are met, such as around developer experience and maintainability
- Managed technical dependencies between different microservices to ensure smooth operations
- Set a high technical standard overall and be a mentoring resource for others on the team and in the larger organization
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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