Staff Software Engineer, Data

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead the technical vision for the ELT platform over a multi-quarter timeframe.

• Develop design documents for significant projects and set standards for design efforts.

• Decompose vague initiatives into actionable tasks for both senior and junior engineers.

• Collaborate with product teams, leadership, and cross-functional engineering groups to align business objectives with platform strategies.

• Offer architectural insights throughout the codebase and make decisions involving trade-offs across projects.

• Identify systemic risks, scaling limitations, and potential reliability failures, and adjust the roadmap accordingly.

• Provide constructive feedback on pull requests and design documents.

• Mentor and guide senior engineers, establishing growth trajectories for engineers at all levels.

• Set benchmarks for code quality, testing, observability, security, and compliance with HIPAA regarding PHI handling.

• Lead efforts in responding to complex incidents and drive follow-up work to prevent future issues.

• Utilize Claude Code and other AI-enhanced tools, define team practices for AI usage, and refine team workflows.

• Take ownership of and enhance the ELT platform that powers IntusCare’s DataHub product and internal analytics.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of professional experience in software or data engineering, demonstrating technical leadership with increasing scope.

• Profound knowledge of SQL and Python.

• Extensive hands-on experience with Airflow or a similar orchestrator, dbt or another modern transformation framework, and cloud data warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift.

• Experience in resolving scaling issues at the warehouse, data, and infrastructure levels.

• Significant expertise in at least one related domain such as data platform architecture, HIPAA-compliant data handling, or reliability engineering.

• Proven capability to foresee design flaws, edge cases, scaling challenges, and organizational risks.

• A history of managing a technical roadmap, converting business objectives and product requirements into deliverable design documents, and guiding multiple engineers through to delivery.

• A proven track record of mentoring engineers.

• Comfortable working across application boundaries, infrastructure, deployment tools, observability, and incident response.

• Strong judgment in utilizing AI-assisted development and establishing team-wide practices.

• Commitment to rigorous testing protocols.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• A pragmatic approach to long-term investments, technical debt, and delivery.

• Familiarity or experience with HIPAA-compliant management of protected health information.

• This position is not eligible for sponsorship; candidates must reside within the United States.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Flexible working hours and remote work options.

• Opportunities for professional growth and development.

• Generous paid time off and holiday policy.