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# Software Engineer (Python)

- **Company:** VCS Digital LLC
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** 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, Apache Spark, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Containerization, Kubernetes, Production Code, Terraform, Data Pipelines, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** June 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/ec00dc69-03f2-4e76-9508-7416a85c3b0c

## About the Role

* 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).

## 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.


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