Senior Software Engineer

Role Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead major initiatives that advance Datavant’s platform scalability and reliability. You’ll drive technical design, coach peers, and ensure system-wide quality and consistency.

What You’ll Do

• Own architectural design and end-to-end delivery for key systems or migrations.
• Partner with Product, Infrastructure, and Security teams to set technical direction.
• Design scalable microservices and guide system decomposition initiatives.
• Drive performance optimization, observability, and reliability improvements.
• Mentor engineers at multiple levels and enhance team culture through best practices.

Tech Stack You’ll Work With

• Backend: Python, Go, Java; microservices; REST and GraphQL
• Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js
• Infrastructure & Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda), Docker, Kubernetes; IaC tools
• Data: Snowflake, Spark, SQL; S3 for raw data
• ETL & Pipelines: Airflow/Glue
• Streaming: Kafka or Kinesis
• Observability: DataDog, Grafana, CloudWatch
• Security: OAuth2/SAML, encryption, tokenization, zero-trust architecture

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience developing and scaling distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in system design, cloud-native architectures, and backend frameworks.
• Proven record of leading major technical projects from inception to launch.
• Strong collaboration with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, Infrastructure, Security).
• Commitment to data integrity, privacy, and operational excellence.

Leadership Qualities & Mindset

• Provides architectural leadership and technical clarity. Identify systemic issues and drive cross-team solutions.
• Inspire confidence through technical expertise and build talent through thoughtful mentorship.
• Balance innovation with pragmatic execution and long-term maintainability.
• Act with humility, integrity, and focus on team success.
• Drive alignment between engineering goals and business outcomes.

Core Value Expectations

• Earn trust through high-quality architectural decisions and transparent leadership.
• Obsess over customers by prioritizing reliable, secure, scalable systems.
• Prioritize growth over comfort by tackling complex, ambiguous technical challenges.
• Win as a team by facilitating alignment and resolving cross-team challenges.
• Rise to the challenge by owning key initiatives and elevating organizational excellence.

Why This Role Matters

As a Senior Software Engineer, you ensure the engineering organization’s systems are resilient, maintainable, and aligned with Datavant’s mission to securely connect healthcare data. You play a central role in advancing architecture and engineering culture.

Compensation

The estimated total cash compensation range for this role is: $180,000 — $220,000 USD.

Health and Safety Requirements

To ensure the safety of patients and staff, many of our clients require post-offer health screenings and proof and/or completion of various vaccinations such as the flu shot, Tdap, COVID-19, etc. Any requests to be exempted from these requirements will be reviewed by Datavant Human Resources and determined on a case-by-case basis.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Datavant is committed to a work environment free from job discrimination. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.