Senior Engineer, Data Solutions

Abacus Insights is a mission-driven, start-up technology company focused on transforming the healthcare payer industry, ultimately creating a more personalized patient experience, improving health outcomes, and lowering the overall cost of healthcare. Abacus Insights provides a flexible, efficient, and secure platform that organizes and exchanges healthcare data from various sources and formats, allowing our customers to uncover differentiated insights that address their clients' needs. Our employees know that they play an active role in keeping our customers' data safe and are responsible for ensuring that our comprehensive policies and practices are met.  

With our deep expertise in cloud-enabled technologies and knowledge of the healthcare industry, we have built an innovative data integration and management platform that allows healthcare payers access to data that has been historically siloed and inaccessible. Through our platform, these health insurance payers can ingest and manage all the data they need to transform their business by supporting their analytical, operational, and financial needs.  

Since our founding in 2017, Abacus has built a highly successful SaaS business, raising $100 Million by leading VC firms who have deep expertise in the healthcare and technology industries. We are solving problems of massive scale and complexity in an industry that is not only ready for disruption. We're growing quickly and would love for you to be a part of it!  

About the Role:  

As a skilled and mission-driven Senior Data Solutions Engineer, you will lead, direct, drive and participate in the day-to-day operations of a team of software, and UI/UX engineers working closely with QA engineers, product owners and business.  You provide technical leadership for multiple, diverse, and geographically distributed teams. You will coach and guide teams to enable future success. Also be a partner with engineering managers, directors and VP on strategic initiatives and future business growth opportunities especially around AI and ensuring the engineering organization can scale to meet the need.

As a member of the engineering team, you are responsible for coaching, mentoring, managing, and leading the talent within an agile environment.

You should expect to:

• Help shape the direction of our data solution features in our products. Drive the deployment of state-of-the-art data products and user experiences that directly impact on the capabilities and performance of Abacus’s products and services (e.g., Data Solution UI/UX)
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including AI engineers, data engineers, and product teams, to deliver impactful data solutions that enhance user experience with our data products
• Skillful at driving critical projects (e.g. Data products engineering and Innovation, Development Productivity and Benchmarking)
• Adept at clear, confident communication with executive staff
• Meaningful experience in the world of Data, UI/UX and AI
• Capable of credible customer interactions
• Mentoring development team members to ensure delivered solutions adhere to the software architecture strategy, coding standards, and established organizational policies and procedures
• Participating in software architectural discussions, influencing decisions, and collaborating with peers to maintain consistency across the organization
• Identifying people and process improvement strategies for the Agile/Scrum team(s)
• Communicate organizational updates to ensure teams adhere to the established policies and procedures
• Help shape the roadmap and execute its delivery
• Ensure projects are completed on time and according to our quality standards
• Facilitates communication upward around architecture, design, and implementation objectives
• Proven experience in leading software development teams or projects
• Excellent knowledge of software development and UI/UX design, QA and test automation, and experience with agile development methodologies
• Demonstrated knowledge of UI/UX, Cloud Architecture, AI Architecture, Massive Parallel Processing (MPP) compute frameworks for Data+AI platforms, and Security,
• Good understanding of Incident Management, Configuration Management, Operational efficiency and Customer Escalation Management preferred. Can manage the balance of delivering on our roadmap commitments while dealing with interruptions and client escalations
• Good experience with open source
• Coach and mentor software developers, develop staff skills, provide continuous feedback (i.e. one on ones) and are responsible for annual reviews. 
• Has relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo)
• Innovation and outside the box thinking
• Has passion and conviction and the innate ability to inspire passion in others
• Responsible for protecting, securing, and proper handling of all confidential data held by Abacus to ensure against unauthorized access, improper transmission, and/or unapproved disclosure of information that could result in harm to Abacus or our clients.

What we’re looking for:

• Full-stack development experience with strong UI/UX knowledge
• Minimum of 5 years of UI/UX experience.  Programming experience with React, JavaScript or similar UI/UX technology.  Experience with AI assisted UI/UX creation and building UI/UX on top of data systems (i.e. Streamlit and BI on top of Databricks and/or Snowflake).  Experience with dashboard creation using BI (i.e. Tableau, PowerBI, etc.)
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with Data Lakehouse, ideally Databricks.  SQL and Python query experience
• Ability to drive end-to-end UI/UX and system development, from research and prototyping to deployment and monitoring
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a passion for improving UI/UX-driven user experiences
• Strong coding and software engineering skills, and familiarity with software engineering principles around testing, debugging, code reviews and deployment
• Possesses a level of breadth and depth of software and UI/UX development experience that allows for influence and competence in technical discussions with internal and external stakeholders
• Solid understanding of roles adjacent to the software development (product management, project management, client delivery, operations etc.). Ability to adapt to these roles as defined at Abacus and work with others in these roles
• Proven record of success of driving projects towards delivering production grade systems supporting customers
• Nice to have experience with, but not required: Snowflake, FHIR, Healthcare Data exposure

Equal Opportunity Employer  

As a mission-led technology company that is helping to drive better healthcare outcomes, Abacus Insights believes that the best innovation and value we can bring to our customers comes from diverse ideas, thoughts, experiences, and perspectives. We are dedicated to building diverse teams and providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants. Abacus prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type regarding race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.