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# Staff Back-End Engineer: Data

- **Company:** Helm LLC
- **Location:** Columbus, OH, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $150,000 - $225,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Query Performance, Artificial Intelligence, BigQuery, Cloud Computing, Code Review, CouchDB, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Stores, Data Systems, Cursor, Database Queries, Linux, Github, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, DataOps, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Google Cloud, Data Build Tool (dbt), Backend, Build Management, Kubernetes, Sentry, Data Management, Gsuite, Claude, Google Gemini, Terraform, GPT, Data Pipelines, Docker
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/staff-back-end-engineer-data-columbus-oh--f84f740d-31c8-40cb-bb6b-4ac0a068e9c6

## About the Role

Startup, Insurance, Health Insurance, Patient Care, Co-Payments, Health Plan Membership, Health Plan, Machine Tool, Data Quality, Data Management, * 5+ years in backend or data engineering

 * Strong Python proficiency
 * Strong SQL skills, particularly in PostgreSQL and BigQuery
 * Experience designing and maintaining automated data pipelines
 * Experience with data quality frameworks, validation, and monitoring
 * Docker/Kubernetes
 * Google Cloud Platform, * Go proficiency
 * Experience with additional data stores at scale (CouchDB, CockroachDB, or similar)
 * Health insurance or claims processing experience
 * Terraform/Terraform Cloud
 * Incident management and response experience
 * Start-up experience, * Self-directed and comfortable working across systems to find and fix data problems
 * Mission-driven - motivated by making healthcare simpler and more transparent
 * Willing to ask questions and admit what you don't know
 * Systems thinker - you see how data flows through an organization and instinctively look for ways to make it better

Internal Tools/Technology

 * Cursor / Linear / GitHub / Notion / Whimsical
 * Slack / Google Workspace / Zoom
 * incident.io / Sentry
 * Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini - we are an AI-forward engineering team
 * macOS / Linux

## Description

* Design and build automated data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes
 * Improve data quality, validation, and monitoring across production systems
 * Build internal tooling that accelerates engineering workflows and reduces manual data operations
 * Work across PostgreSQL and BigQuery to optimize storage, query performance, and data modeling
 * Collaborate with engineering teams across the org to understand data needs and build scalable solutions
 * Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions
 * Contribute to the on-call rotation for data systems
 * Support data governance and access control practices to ensure compliance with HIPAA and other regulatory requirements across data systems
 * Maintain clear documentation for data pipelines, schemas, and system dependencies to support team knowledge sharing and operational continuity
 * Experience with dbt (data build tool) or similar SQL-based transformation frameworks