Staff Data Engineer

Staff Data Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States

Our healthcare system remains frustratingly analog. When you live in a world of one-tap car rides, instant meal delivery, and unlimited streaming, why do you still have to call to schedule a doctor's appointment and fill out a clipboard in the waiting room?

NexHealth's mission is to accelerate innovation in healthcare by connecting patients, providers, and developers. We're building the infrastructure layer for modern healthcare, connecting thousands of fragmented, on-premise, and closed EHR systems into a single, modern platform that powers software, APIs, payments, and patient experiences across the ecosystem.

• Founded: 2017
• Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
• Funding: $177M Series C
• Employees: 200+
• Trusted by tens of thousands of providers and hundreds of health-tech developers — forging the infrastructure layer that modern healthcare needs

About The Role

As our Staff Data Engineer, you will own and evolve the foundational data systems that power NexHealth's analytics and unlock the next generation of customer-facing insights. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role that combines architectural influence with deep execution. We need to expand our data capabilities for scale and improve our daily operations and enable self-service. You will drive the transformation of our data infrastructure.

You will design data pipelines, refactor the warehouse architecture, and lay down the modeling foundations that enable trusted analytics across the company. This work directly supports our mission to become the API for healthcare. With access to a rich and growing corpus of medical data, you will help NexHealth become a leader in data strategy, intelligence, and customer enablement.

This role is ideal for a Staff-level engineer who has seen and built great data platforms, is not afraid of legacy, and thrives in environments where the vision is clear, the systems are evolving, and the company is depending on data to unlock its next stage of growth.

What You'll Do

• Own the Data Platform
  • Lead the architectural evolution of our data warehouse, modeling layer, and pipeline structure
  • Refactor core data models to support fast, self-serve access and shared understanding across teams
  • Build reliable ingestion and transformation systems that abstract over messy or fragmented inputs
  • Take responsibility for the structure, reliability, and extensibility of our warehouse and modeling layers
  • Replace brittle vendor-based pipelines with scalable, maintainable ingestion and transformation infrastructure
  • Build in observability, alerting, and validation to ensure the platform can scale with confidence
• Drive Strategic Data Initiatives
  • Collaborate closely with Staff-level analysts, engineers, and data consumers to unblock their workflows and enable data insights.
  • Partner with software engineers to anticipate and manage upstream schema changes and database shifts
  • Define and enforce clear data contracts and interface boundaries
  • Shape how the company can eventually leverage data science, customer segmentation, and industry-wide insights

What You'll Bring

• 7+ years of experience in data engineering or software engineering with a focus on building scalable, well-tested systems
• Advanced fluency in SQL and Python with strong instincts around modular modeling, optimization, and abstraction
• Experience building on top of a modern managed data warehouse such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift
• Proven history of taking ambiguous, fragmented data systems and turning them into reliable, documented, high-trust platforms
• Ability to operate independently at a Staff level with a high sense of ownership
• A background in strong engineering cultures or top-tier product environments where quality, velocity, and ownership coexist
• Passion for clarity, simplicity, and helping teams move faster without cutting corners

Compensation Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just the base salary component of NexHealth's total compensation package for employees. Other benefits may include stock options, an unlimited paid time off policy, and up to 100% coverage on medical, vision and dental insurance.

NexHealth Compensation Range

$177,000 - $226,000 USD

Benefits

• Full Medical, Dental, and Vision (up to 100% covered)
• 401K and commuter benefits
• Flexible PTO
• High-impact work that directly improves the healthcare experience for millions

Our Values

• Solve the customer's problems, not yours When making decisions, think from the perspective of the customer. It's easy to make decisions that make our lives simpler, but not the customers.
• Do the things others are not willing to do As a Nexer, always go after the hardest problems. Pursue things at the highest quality. Move at the fastest pace.
• Take ownership Act like a founder. Own your roles, destinies, mistakes, behavior, and our mission. The buck stops with each of us - no blaming or excuses.
• Say what's on your mind, with positive intent Be direct, proactive, transparent, and frequent in your communication.
• Default trust As a Nexer, you do not have to earn trust, trust is given to you by default. If we by default trust each other, our speed of communication, feedback, information sharing, and overall improvements will be a lot faster.
• Think in first principles We first identify the problem and then break it down to its fundamentals before diving into solutions. We constantly ask "why" to validate our assumptions.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We provide reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities to participate in the application or interview process. Contact View email address on click.appcast.io to request assistance.