Full Stack Engineer
Datavant
Datavant is a data platform company and the world’s leader in health data exchange. Our vision is that every healthcare decision is powered by the right data, at the right time, in the right format.
Our platform is powered by the largest, most diverse health data network in the U.S., enabling data to be secure, accessible and usable to inform better health decisions. Datavant is trusted by the world’s leading life sciences companies, government agencies, and those who deliver and pay for care.
By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a high-performing, values-driven team. Together, we’re rising to the challenge of tackling some of healthcare’s most complex problems with technology-forward solutions. Datavanters bring a diversity of professional, educational and life experiences to realize our bold vision for healthcare.
We're open to candidates across a range of experience levels, from junior to staff-level engineers, who are excited to contribute to our Full Stack team.
Why join our tech team?
- You’ll collaborate with other engineers on all matters that impact the Engineering team, including building technology/product vision.
- You’ll have the opportunity to mentor and/ or learn from highly-skilled colleagues, by performing code reviews, driving initiatives and contributing to technical designs.
- The team works on a technical stack which includes both cloud and on-premise deployments, big-data ingestion and analytics, distributed systems, and algorithmic complexity.
DESCRIPTION
As a science-driven healthcare analytics company with a rapidly growing customer base, we are seeking a Full Stack Engineer to strengthen our applications team in Barcelona.
As a software engineer, you will contribute to all parts of the software development lifecycle, including design, development, documentation, testing, and operations. You will play a key role in defining problems, designing solutions, and executing to achieve results. You will collaborate with other engineers to lead continuous improvements, refactoring, and rearchitecting to meet the growing expectations of our legacy system.
You will also partner cross-functionally with our product and science teams to provide insights on technology advancements contributing to increased scalability, reliability, and availability for Aetion’s platform.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Enrich one of our rapid-cycle full-stack analytic applications.
- Develop and document highly performant and scalable component and software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; and following the software development lifecycle.
- Works across Engineering to address issues, identify technical debt, and lead cross-cutting initiatives.
- Provide expertise on devising technical solutions, and make shrewd judgment calls on when and how to invest in tactical vs. strategic solutions.
- Implement automated tests to validate changes to the codebase, and generally to increase overall coverage.
- Provide insights and suggest technology advancements for the codebase’s scalability, reliability, and availability.
- Lead by example to elevate engineering practices; Mentor, guide, and develop less senior engineers.
- Document each aspect of a system or application as a reference for future upgrades and maintenance, as well as faster onboarding of new hires.
- Collaborate closely with our product, design, and science teams to understand the needs of our clients.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- 3+ years of proven developer experience, highly proficient with TypeScript.
- Experience with high proficiency with front-end frameworks such as React, Angular, or similar.
- Ability to demonstrate understanding of system design, data structures, and algorithms.
Preferred Qualifications
- Agile Methodology experience leveraging CI/CD.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and deployment lifecycles.
- Experience with big datasets.
- Ability to prioritize, communicate well, design for repeatability and scalability, exude ownership, and dig beneath the hood with technology.
- Enthusiastic about working in highly collaborative team environments, including partnering with product teams to find creative solutions for challenging engineering problems.
PERKS of joining Datavant in Barcelona
- 25 vacation days.
- Daily in-office lunch stipend (and a fully stocked kitchen).
- Sabbatical opportunity after five years of employment.
- Commitment to professional development opportunities.
- Employee-led initiatives including annual company-wide innovation day & DEI resource groups.
- Comprehensive private health coverage w/ out-of-network reimbursements options.
- Peer & company recognition programs.
- Monthly educational lunch & learns.
To ensure the safety of patients and staff, many of our clients require post-offer health screenings and proof and/or completion of various vaccinations such as the flu shot, Tdap, COVID-19, etc. Any requests to be exempted from these requirements will be reviewed by Datavant Human Resources and determined on a case-by-case basis. Depending on the state in which you will be working, exemptions may be available on the basis of disability, medical contraindications to the vaccine or any of its components, pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions, and/or religion.
This job is not eligible for employment sponsorship.
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