Senior Database Engineer, Healthie
PostgreSQL
$160-185k
+ Stock options + Bonus
More information about location
Infrastructure for virtual-first healthcare organizations
Open for applications
Infrastructure for virtual-first healthcare organizations
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$160-185k
+ Stock options + Bonus
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower the providers and builders of the care ecosystem with the tools they need to deliver a complete virtual experience for the end-consumers.
Role
Who you are
- You have deep expertise in Amazon AWS RDS Aurora, Postgres replication, partitioning, clustering, high availability, backup, and disaster recovery strategies
- You have experience in mission-critical environments, ensuring database reliability, performance, and scalability
- Bonus points for experience in healthcare or other regulated industries
- You come with a strong foundation in designing, scaling, and optimizing Postgres deployments
- You have a strong ability to prioritize platform needs, balancing short-term fixes with long-term scalability
- You are a collaborative leader who influences without authority—people enjoy working with you because you communicate clearly and support your colleagues
- You have very strong interpersonal, collaboration, and communication skills, embodying Healthie’s core values of Respect, Reliability, and Resilience without ego
- You have a bias toward execution—you focus on getting things done and don’t let obstacles slow you down. You are full of grit and not afraid to roll up your sleeves and move quickly
- You thrive in fast-paced, problem-solving environments, constantly improving and optimizing database performance
- You are Mission-driven, excited about building infrastructure that improves patient outcomes
- You have strong proficiency in tools like Terraform, PG Bouncer, scripting, and postgres monitoring systems
- You are experienced in building and maintaining infrastructure for critically important applications
- You take initiative and problem-solve effectively, asking the right questions and finding solutions
What the job involves
- We’re hiring a Senior Database Engineer - PostgreSQL to join our Platform Engineering team at Healthie
- You’ll be a key contributor to one of the most important pieces of digital infrastructure in the healthcare space
- Our platform is growing rapidly, and we need someone who can ensure our databases scale, perform, and remain reliable
- You’ll be responsible for database infrastructure administration across production, QA, and development environments, ensuring smooth operation, monitoring performance, and maintaining automation scripts
- Your expertise in PostgreSQL will help shape how we deploy, scale, monitor, and refine our data model
- Strong familiarity with ORMs (especially Rails/ActiveRecord) is a big plus!
- You will own our Aurora databases, managing database setup, configuration, upgrades, monitoring, and troubleshooting
- You will design and execute zero or minimal downtime upgrades and disaster recovery solutions while implementing best practices for partitioning, archiving, and accessing archived data
- Measuring and optimizing system performance, capacity planning, and security instrumentation will be part of your role, along with collaborating with feature teams to facilitate schema and query improvements
- Observing application behavior to prioritize query optimizations will also be a key aspect of this position
Application process
- Quick chat with Katie, Director of Talent (15 minutes)
- Interview with John, Director of Engineering (30 minutes)
- Complete our Technical Assessment (asynchronous)
- Talk technical with Chris M (30 minutes)
- Meet with Andrew from the Platform team (30 minutes)
- Interview with Cavan, CTO + cofounder (20 minutes)
- Reference checks
Our take
The past few years have seen a substantial rise in provision and uptake of telemedicine services, with over one in five Americans now signed up. This successful reimagining of healthcare provision into something more accessible, affordable, and effective, has led to a surge of VC investment and rapid-growth success stories in the sector. Would-be startups, however, have to navigate the costly and complex process of building out core, HIPAA-compliant infrastructure.
So software and API company Healthie is filling the gap in this market. The business helps these companies build and deliver health and wellness services by providing a fully-brandable suite of telehealth, business management, and coaching tools. This means that businesses can launch and scale at a fraction of the cost, and in a fraction of the time.
It’s a broad-based set of solutions that’s won Healthie an impressive number of client organizations across over 20 different countries. This vigorous growth looks likely to continue too with its regular funding rounds. Telemedicine remains a popular healthcare tool, and as regulations on telehealth data privacy tighten, the growing number of startups in this space are likely to need more support than ever.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
52% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2024
$23m
SERIES B
Jul 2022
$16m
SERIES A
Total funding: $41.2m
Company benefits
- Stock options
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability coverages
- FSA and HSA
- Flexible vacation
- 401(k) plan with company matching
- Parental leave program
- Learning & development stipends
- Nutritional coaching
- Fitness membership budget
- Co-working subscriptions
- A laptop plus equipment stipend
- Summer Fridays
Company values
- Respect - "Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention"
- Resilience - “When the going gets tough, the tough gets going"
- Reliability - "With great power comes great responsibility"
Company HQ
Chelsea, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Erica Jain
(CEO & Co-Founder)Conducted research at the Center for Research on Prospective Health Care, moving into a nutrition program analyst role at the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and finally spent time as a healthcare consultant with BCG.
Cavan Klinsky
(CTO & Co-Founder)Founded search engine Gevva, and then worked freelance as a web designer.
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