[Remote] Senior Data Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Hopscotch Primary Care is on a mission to transform healthcare in rural America by providing accessible and high-quality primary care. They are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own and evolve their data platform, ensuring data is trustworthy and accessible while collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into scalable data solutions.
Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and maintain our data model, data pipelines, and data access layer that support our care delivery, operations, and analytics in collaboration with the data platform team
- Ensure data quality & governance: implement practices that make our data trustworthy and usable for all stakeholders, from clinicians to operators
- Monitor and optimize data infrastructure: troubleshoot issues, improve system performance, and drive efficiency through automation and process enhancements
- Lead with technical depth: review code and set engineering best practices across the team
- Think big picture: design today’s infrastructure with tomorrow’s needs in mind, laying the foundation for high quality workflow enhancements as well as advanced analytics and AI
- Contribute where business needs are highest: flex across the stack, from backend data engineering to occasional contributions in frontend applications that bring data to life
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams: work with product managers, analytics, operations, and care delivery stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable data solutions
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field
- 4+ years of professional experience in data engineering and software architecture shipping production level code, preferably in healthcare services
- Strong programming skills (Python, Pyspark, or similar) with proven experience in building and scaling reusable, testable, and maintainable data pipelines
- Experience designing and optimizing data models, warehouses, and/or lakehouses
- Familiarity with modern data platforms and cloud ecosystems (ex. Palantir Foundry, DBT, Databricks, Snowflake, AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Track record of ensuring data quality, governance, and reliability
- Ability to balance high-level architecture with tactical execution
Benefits
- Paid holidays + PTO
- Company sponsored medical, dental, and vision insurance for you + your family
- FREE short-term and long-term disability insurance
- FREE $100k life insurance policy
- 401k plan with 4% company match + no vesting period
- $720 - $1,000 added to employee Health Savings Account annually for eligible health plans
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