Senior Data Engineer

About Amino - What we do

The US healthcare system is built around industry interests instead of what's best for patients. As a result, patients have little visibility into cost or quality when making important healthcare decisions. We created Amino, a digital healthcare guidance platform, to give power back to the patients by matching them with high-quality, cost-effective care providers. 

Senior Data Engineer - The Role

Data Engineers at Amino are the backbone of our organization. They ingest, transform, and curate large and complex data that powers our products. We are in the process of adding new forms of data to add new product offers as well as improving our current products. In order to support this, we are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to help us lead the way toward building the most competitive and compliant healthcare guidance products on the market. 

High level priorities and projects:

• Work directly with Product Managers, Architects and senior leadership to turn high-level requirements into detailed plans.
• Integrate new vendor and internal sources of data into our ETL pipelines
• Build out the next generation of our editorial tools to create and correct data about health entities
• Modernizing our orchestration infrastructure, leveraging open source tools like dbt and Dagster

Impact you will have:

• You'll revamp and expand critical data pipelines that drive current and future products.
• You’ll mentor other data engineers.
• You’ll collaborate closely with data scientists and software engineers in adjacent teams.
• You’ll Influence the fundamentals of how we model and warehouse data that is accessed by most teams across the company.
• You’ll use modern data stack technologies to develop the foundation of Amino's next generation data assets.

Technologies you will be working 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 possess:

• You’re experienced with a variety of relational and non-relational databases
• You are comfortable writing clean, well-tested code in Python
• You have experience handling and working with large datasets and the tools to manage them
• You have worked with ETL pipelines before and are familiar with modeling and data warehousing best practices including data modeling. Experience with dbt is to maintain pipelines is preferred.
• You value and practice collaboration and feedback. You question and seek feedback on your own work and opinions.
• Your documentation and verbal communication skills are excellent. You can communicate technical vision in clear terms to your peers as well as outside of the engineering team

Bonus if you bring the following:

• Experience with Apache Airflow and Dagster
• Deep experience in the healthcare domain, specifically dealing 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: $160,000 to $180,000 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.
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• We offer full-time employees 100% paid employee healthcare premiums; dependent premium coverage depends on the plan.
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• 401(k) and FSA programs
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• 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.
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• PTO is non accrual and we expect Amino’s to take a minimum of 15 days a year. 

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, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We know the reputation and track record that the tech industry has, and work hard to be exceptional in this regard.

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, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We know the reputation and track record that the tech industry has, and work hard to be exceptional in this regard.

Our Culture

We are a small team who believes that success is a group activity. You should expect to learn from everyone at Amino, and be excited to share your knowledge. You will play a big part in influencing the shape of the product and be empowered to provide your thoughts and ideas.

We believe in collaboration, respect, and curiosity. We believe in having a growth mindset, and have a passion for solving problems that have never been faced before. Everyone’s input is valued, be it about code, data models, business models, or product ideas.

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, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We know the reputation and track record that the tech industry has, and work hard to be exceptional in this regard.

Important notice COVID Vaccination policy - May 1, 2022:

As a company focused on helping people live healthier lives, we believe that taking a cautious approach to protect each other, our wider Amino family, and our communities against COVID-19 is aligned with our mission. All Amino personnel are expected to travel to attend in-person team gatherings from time to time, Amino has therefore adopted a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy. Upon receipt of a conditional offer of employment for this role, a candidate will be required to certify their vaccination status, and the offer of employment will be conditioned upon, among other things, the applicant’s ability to provide timely certification of full vaccination against COVID-19 . Please note that, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws, Amino provides exemptions and reasonable accommodations to its vaccination-related requirements. Therefore if you are unable or unwilling to be vaccinated, such as because of medical reasons or sincerely-held religious beliefs, you may request an exemption or accommodation. If you require accommodation, the Company will evaluate your request and work with you to identify reasonable alternatives to vaccination, if available.