Data Engineering Director, Zus Health
$190-220k
+ Equity
Development platform for healthcare startups
Open for applications
Development platform for healthcare startups
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$190-220k
+ 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
- With broad, evolving needs and a small team, we’re looking for a flexible, creative, and enthusiastic technical leader who is able to lead and inspire others as well as to dive in and lead by example on tough technical challenges
- Proven experience as a senior engineering leader leading successful teams in complex technical environments
- Experience developing and operating complex data engineering projects at large scale
- Passion for developing talent, you have a track record of growing your team members into management & leadership roles
- Demonstrated ability to achieve operational excellence: you can evaluate and design the right processes and systems to facilitate communications, improve execution, and ensure accountability
- Significant experience in dynamic environments such as early stage startups
- A consistent track record delivering high availability services on a public cloud platform
- Strong technical proficiency in data integration and “back end” technologies Exceptional communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to lead both on-shore and off-shore staff
- Passion for improving healthcare in the US
- A BS or MS degree in Computer Science or similar technical field
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced Engineering Director to lead our core data integration teams
- This leader will be responsible for the teams that develop, maintain and operate our services that connect to healthcare data networks, EHRs, HIEs, and other healthcare information sources
- Our evolving tech stack includes Go, Snowflake, DynamoDB and AWS
- Leading and mentoring 2-3 teams of skilled engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment
- Setting clear goals and objectives, providing guidance and support to ensure successful project delivery
- Guiding the long-term strategic direction of Zus data acquisition and integration
- Continuously improving engineering, quality, and support policies, practices, and processing for the data engineering teams
- Cultivating a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging professional growth and skill development
- Providing hands-on technical guidance and support to the team including direct code code development, ensuring the highest quality of code and system architecture
- Staying updated on industry trends and best practices to ensure the development of cutting-edge solutions
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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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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