Software Engineer (Python)

VCS Digital LLC
United States
about 1 month ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
8 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Airflow Amazon Web Services Amazon S3 Big Data Clinical Data Repository Code Review Continuous Integration Relational Databases Python (Programming Language) Query Optimization Standard Sql
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Apache Spark Backend Event Driven Architecture Containerization Kubernetes Production Code Terraform Data Pipelines Docker Microservices

Job description

  • Build and maintain scalable backend services, APIs and batch/stream data pipelines in a healthcare data environment.
  • Develop and optimize calculation/risk engines that process large volumes of claims and clinical data.

  • Write well-tested, production-grade code and participate in code reviews, CI/CD and on-call rotation.

  • Partner with product and data teams to translate requirements into reliable, performant services.

Requirements

  • Python * SQL * AWS
  • Strong production experience building services and data pipelines; relational database design and query optimization; deploying and operating workloads on AWS (e.g., ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3).

  • Experience with large-scale data processing (Spark, Airflow, dbt or similar).
  • Healthcare / claims / EHR data exposure.
  • Microservices, event-driven architecture, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
  • Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).

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