Job Description
Title: Data Engineer
Location: Anywhere in the United States
About Amino – What We Do
At Amino, we are a leading innovator in healthcare, empowering individuals to take charge of their healthcare journey. Our powerful digital tools help navigate and unlock the full potential of health plan options. With Amino’s cutting-edge solutions, health plan members can easily understand and make informed decisions about their benefits, considering factors such as available programs, provider network quality, and cost.
We are excited to announce that we have recently secured additional funding to fuel our growth and continue developing market-leading navigation tools. As part of this journey, we are looking for a talented and driven Data Engineer to join us. You will play a vital role in helping millions of people understand and optimize their health plan options.
The Role
As a Data Engineer at Amino, you will be at the heart of our organization. Your primary responsibilities will involve processing, transforming, and organizing large and complex datasets that power our products. We are expanding our data sources and enhancing our current offerings, and we need a Data Engineer to help us build competitive and compliant healthcare guidance products.
Key Priorities and Projects:
- Collaborate with Product Managers, Architects, and senior leadership to translate high-level requirements into detailed plans.
- Integrate new data sources from vendors and internal systems into our ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines.
- Enhance our editorial tools for creating and maintaining accurate data about health entities.
- Modernize our orchestration infrastructure using open-source tools like dbt and Dagster.
Impact you will have:
- Revamp and expand critical data pipelines that drive our existing and future products.
- Mentor other junior data engineers and share your expertise.
- Collaborate closely with data scientists and software engineers in related teams.
- Influence the foundational aspects of data modeling and warehousing, benefiting various teams across the company.
- Utilize modern data stack technologies to build the foundation for Amino’s next-generation data assets.
Technologies you will work with:
Snowflake, Python 3, dbt, Docker, AWS, Looker, Databricks, Spark, Jenkins CI/CD, Airflow, Dagster, Terraform, PostgreSQL, RDS, Elasticsearch, and Kinesis.
Skills and Experience you should possess:
- Familiarity with various relational and non-relational databases.
- Proficiency in writing clean and well-tested code using Python.
- Experience handling and working with large datasets and the associated tools.
- Previous exposure to ETL pipelines and familiarity with data modeling and data warehousing best practices (experience with dbt is preferred).
- Strong collaboration and feedback skills, with a willingness to seek and incorporate input from others.
- Excellent documentation and verbal communication skills, capable of conveying technical concepts to peers and non-technical stakeholders.
Bonus Skills:
- Experience handling PHI or PII
- Deep understanding of the healthcare domain, particularly with healthcare claims data.
We offer
- We’re committed to helping you achieve your best work in a supportive, growth-oriented environment. We have seriously big goals, and expectations are high and we’ll equip you with the tools and resources you need to be successful.
- Expected base salary: $150k to $180k plus standard company benefits and a generous option grant. Amino values transparency and has included the reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this full-time role at any approved US location. Individual pay is determined by a range of factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, licensure or certifications, and other business and organizational needs. Amino does not typically hire at or near the top of a salary range.
- We offer full-time employees 100% paid employee healthcare premiums; dependent premium coverage depends on the plan.
- 401(k) and FSA programs
- This position, like all roles at the firm, will have a good deal of autonomy. We’re a remote-first team and have designed our culture for a balance of synchronous and asynchronous work with people operating from all over the country. To support your remote office, we provide every new Amino with a generous office set-up allowance plus a monthly stipend for internet/phone.
- PTO is non accrual and we expect Amino’s to take a minimum of 15 days a year.