Staff Engineer, Zus Health
Data Engineering
$150-180k
+Equity
Development platform for healthcare startups
Open for applications
Development platform for healthcare startups
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$150-180k
+Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To catalyze healthcare's greatest inventors by maximizing the value of patient insights - so that they can build up, not around.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking an experienced engineer to join our Data Acquisition (DA) team
- Are a self-starter who is ready for the fast and dynamic nature of an early stage startup
- Have initiative and can get things done independently
- Have experience building significant data pipelines
- Enjoy owning complete microservices from the infrastructure up
- Have deep experience building backend software in any language (we use mostly Go with a bit of Node)
- Have some experience working with: deployment technologies (Github actions, CodeDeploy, CircleCI), cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef)
- Are excited to ~ finally! ~ enable a true digital revolution in healthcare
- Thrive amid the changing landscape of a growing and evolving startup
- Enjoy collaboration and solving unique problems
Desirable
- Experienced in building and running large-scale systems in the cloud
- Experienced in building services and APIs used by third-party developers
- Knowledgeable about application security
- Experienced in working with healthcare data and APIs
- Familiar with the FHIR standard
What the job involves
- Engineers at Zus have the opportunity to collaborate directly with our founding product and engineering leaders to bring our vision to the nation’s healthcare entrepreneurs
- This team is responsible for collecting health data from a broad range of internal and external sources and making that data useful for users of the Zus platform
- The DA team is globally distributed with engineers across the US as well as a European team in Poland
- The engineer joining this team will build tools that interact with external health data networks to collect information about our patients and load it into the Zus data stores at high volume, as well as services used by customers and internal stakeholders to request that data
- You will work on data pipelines that operate on large scale data using a variety of AWS services (Step Functions, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, etc)
- You will also be responsible for multiple RESTful services that are used both internally and externally. Go is our language of choice, although we also have some components written in NodeJS. The team is responsible for deploying, maintaining, and operating its pipelines and services
- Build complex data pipelines
- Build microservices connecting to third party APIs
- Provide technical leadership, contributing to the architecture and design of the teams systems
- Coach others to become better engineers
- Partner with product managers and other Zusers
Our take
Whilst the healthtech sector is growing fast, the kind of tech needed to build within each healthcare field can be radically different. The result has been that most of these companies develop in a vacuum, with time and resources wasted on unnecessary duplications of tools, data, and backends. Zus is looking to remedy this health data isolation issue by building a shared development platform for healthcare startups.
The idea is that companies will benefit from shared data in the backend - thus bringing down the cost and delays currently involved in setting up individual new companies. Whilst the healthtech boom of recent years is showing signs of abating, at least in the US, it’s still a strong and fertile market with plenty of room for innovation. This should keep interest high for capabilities like those offered by Zus.
Moreover, the company is led by HealthTech veteran Jonathan Bush. His tenure at athenahealth saw it ultimately sold in a $17B private equity deal after becoming a leading healthcare network service provider. With this expertise, a market-accelerating proposition, and impressive partnerships, Zus is becoming an important player.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
131% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2023
$40m
EARLY VC
Jun 2021
$34m
SERIES A
Total funding: $74m
Company benefits
- Equity for all employees
- 401K plan - Complete with generous company match
- Excellent care options - Includes medical, dental, and vision
- Work from wherever - Be it from home, our office, or a hybrid of the two
- Flexible PTO - Hitting reset is strongly encouraged
- Zus-sponsored events - Remote employees are 100% included
Company values
- Building For Builders - Our tools and services are designed to accelerate builders. Innovation in healthcare happens when digital healthcare startups can get their ideas to market. Everything we do must deliver value to those who are innovating
- Dream Big, But Execute Fast - Speed wins the day. To tackle a big problem right, you’ve got to start by breaking it down. We strive to deliver value early and iterate all we can
- A Community Of Collaboration - The more we learn, the more we succeed. We revel in sharing our knowledge with others
Company HQ
Downtown, Boston, MA
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Leadership
Jonathan Bush
(CEO)Originally an army medic, before consulting for a spell and then taking up an MBA at Harvard Business School. Subsequently founded athenahealth, and spent over two decades at the helm as CEO.
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