Senior Data Engineer

What if you could personally impact the future of healthcare? As part of the PocketHealth team, you will enable hospitals and clinics across North America — and more importantly, empower over 2 million patients — to discover a better healthcare experience.

PocketHealth is a patient-centric platform that enables hospitals and clinics across North America to share imaging records digitally with patients, instantly and securely. Through our platform, we enable patients to be active and engaged participants in their own care, and take control of their care journey. In addition to image sharing, which is the heart of the PocketHealth platform, we’ve grown our core functionality to enable sharing between hospitals and physicians, as well as instant image retrieval and automated importing capability. PocketHealth is a unified image management solution for over 800 hospitals and clinics across North America. We believe that by placing patients at the center of the record release process, data moves more ethically, easily and securely throughout the care journey, and we’re looking for passionate individuals to help make this vision a reality for millions more patients across North America.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a crucial role in architecting and developing the infrastructure that powers our data-driven solutions, ultimately enhancing the healthcare experience for more than a million patients and healthcare providers. Ideal candidates will possess a high degree of user empathy and a focus on the quality and speed of our product. Our patients simply can’t afford to wait!

In This Role You Will

• Craft and maintain data pipelines and systems to process and analyze vast amounts of healthcare data, ensuring they’re scalable and adaptable.
• Take ownership of the end-to-end data engineering lifecycle, as the first and only data engineer on the team! Having built from the ground up, you know how to ensure data quality and reliability from data ingestion to transformation and storage.
• Lead the charge in optimizing data processing and storage solutions for both performance and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand their needs and shape our data infrastructure roadmap.
• Enhancing dashboards and platforms to provide meaningful, actionable data visualization for stakeholders.
• Drive the development of advanced analytics capabilities within Looker to enable deeper insights empower our teams to make informed decisions.
• Encourage best practices in data engineering, including code reviews, testing, and documentation.
  
  

What You’ll Need To Be Successful

• 7+ years of engineering experience, including 4+ years of experience in data engineering or a similar role with a strong foundation in building scalable data pipelines and systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent/similar.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail, with a focus on delivering high-quality solutions.
• A collaborative mindset, strong communication skills and a proven ability to partner with teams across an organization while maintaining a strong sense of ownership.
• Experience with data platform and ingestion products (Nice to have: Databricks & Fivetran).
  
  

You can do amazing things at PocketHealth. You can positively impact the healthcare journey for millions of people, while building your career and developing your skills. It doesn’t have to be one or the other. It has been a part of our mission since our founding to empower patients & make healthcare accessible to all, and we know this can only be achieved with a team of diverse perspectives that is representative of the Patient & Provider communities we serve.

People love working here for these reasons and more: working remotely, our competitive salaries and benefits (including stock options for every employee!), four weeks of paid time off, unlimited paid wellness days, extended mental health coverage, and 16 weeks of parental leave top-up.

We’re proud to foster a culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we believe in caring for our employees with the same thoughtfulness we offer our Patients & Providers.

If there are ways we can support you through the recruitment process with an accommodation, please let us know by reaching out to [email protected] . Applications are accepted via posting only.