Staff Software Engineer, Komodo Health
Platform
$191-298k
More information about location
Curating big data and analytics on healthcare
Open for applications
Curating big data and analytics on healthcare
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$191-298k
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To reduce the burden of disease.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum 10+ years of experience
- Proven experience architecting and leading the implementation of complex, scalable, and highly available distributed platform services and infrastructure
- Extensive, hands-on expertise with cloud platforms (AWS strongly preferred, with deep knowledge of its core compute, storage, networking, and managed services like S3, EC2, ECS/EKS, IAM, Lambda, VPCs)
- Proficiency in containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes), including experience with service mesh, custom controllers, or advanced deployment strategies (e.g., using ArgoCD, Helm)
- Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles and tools, particularly Terraform
- Expert proficiency in core platform languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java, Scala) and relevant frameworks (e.g., FastAPI, Pydantic)
- Advanced application of data structures, algorithms, OOP, and design patterns to build robust, scalable systems
- Deep experience designing and maintaining critical APIs (REST, gRPC) with versioning best practices (e.g., OpenAPI)
- Strategic experience with diverse data storage solutions (e.g., SQL/NoSQL databases, data warehouses like Snowflake, data lake concepts/technologies like Iceberg)
- Proven experience with event stream processing (e.g., Kafka) and designing event-driven architectures or distributed workflow systems (e.g., Temporal, Airflow)
- A proactive approach to identifying and filling gaps in technical understanding and processes
What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer on the Platform team at Komodo Health, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the backbone of our technology.
- You will be responsible for designing, building, and scaling the foundational services and infrastructure that empower all our engineering teams to innovate rapidly and reliably.
- This is a high-impact role where you'll leverage your deep technical expertise and leadership skills to drive the evolution of our core platform, directly contributing to Komodo's mission.
- You will own critical components, influence architectural direction, and mentor fellow engineers, tackling complex challenges that are crucial to our success
- This is an individual contributor role
- Within the first 12 months, as a Staff Software Engineer on the Platform team, you will have made a significant impact on Komodo Health's technical foundation and engineering capabilities. You will have:
- Architected and Delivered Foundational Platform Enhancements:
- Spearheaded the architectural design and led the implementation of at least one major new platform service or critical infrastructure upgrade (e.g., related to data processing, orchestration, API gateways, or core data service frameworks) that demonstrably improves scalability, reliability, or developer velocity for multiple engineering teams
- Driven the adoption of new technical strategies and frameworks for key platform domains, such as our data infrastructure (enabling robust integrations with services like Snowflake, Databricks, AWS S3) or our core deployment and orchestration pipelines (e.g., leveraging Temporal, Airflow), resulting in streamlined operations and enhanced capabilities
- Elevated Engineering Standards and Operational Excellence:
- Established and championed new engineering best practices, API design standards (including versioning and OpenAPI adoption), or architectural patterns across the Platform domain and influenced their adoption more broadly within Engineering, measurably improving code quality, system observability, and documentation
- Led initiatives to significantly enhance our automated testing frameworks, CI/CD processes, and operational monitoring for critical platform services, directly contributing to higher standards of reliability and faster, safer deployments
- Provided Key Technical Leadership and Strategic Influence:
- Successfully led highly complex, cross-functional platform initiatives from strategic conception and architectural definition through to successful launch and adoption, effectively collaborating with product management, application engineering teams, and other senior stakeholders
- Become a recognized owner and subject matter expert for key platform systems or components, providing authoritative technical guidance, authoring comprehensive design documentation, and articulating a clear future vision for their evolution
- Proactively identified and mitigated significant technical risks within the platform, and played a key role in resolving complex, ambiguous technical challenges that had a broad impact
- Fostered a "Bar Raiser" Culture of Growth and Engineering Excellence:
- Consistently pushed for improvement in engineering standards by actively mentoring engineers at all levels, championing advanced software design principles (e.g., Inversion of Control, Repository Pattern), and setting a higher bar for software design, implementation quality, and code review practices across platform teams
- Played a pivotal role in attracting, assessing, and integrating top-tier engineering talent by serving as a key interviewer and "bar raiser" in the hiring process, ensuring new hires significantly contribute to the team's expertise and Komodo’s "Seek Growth" value
- Driven Innovation and Enabled New Capabilities:
- Partnered with product managers and engineering leaders to translate evolving business needs into robust, scalable platform solutions, potentially enabling new product features or lines of business by enhancing core technical capabilities
- Researched, prototyped, and advocated for the adoption of innovative technologies or methodologies that provide a clear advantage to Komodo's platform and engineering velocity
Our take
Komodo Health has built a healthcare map, an artificial intelligence and data analytics tool that tracks the healthcare encounters of well over 300 million patients. The service helps providers, pharmaceutical companies, and scientists identify opportunities for intervention and care improvements. It also helps them to analyze how products are performing in the market, identify at-risk patient groups, study the effectiveness of treatments, and detect patterns in drug and patient behavior.
Komodo Health’s comprehensive platform helps customers to better understand health and it is challenging the fragmentation of healthcare that contributes to inconsistent, unsatisfying results for both patients and providers. It has used its considerable amount of funding to focus on accelerating growth through further innovation and development of its enterprise technology platform, application suite and core data assets.
Komodo Health made cuts to its core team at the end 2022 as part of a restructuring following a large equity funding round. This is very likely to be part of a push for profitability as it gears up for an IPO. With its business strategy realigned, it is resuming hiring in all areas to continue to develop its product and grow its market share.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Dec 2022
$200m
LATE VC
Mar 2021
$220m
SERIES E
Total funding: $514m
Company benefits
- Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Mobility across San Francisco and New York City Offices
- Paid Family leave
- Flexible working hours and flexible paid time off policy
- Personal wellness stipend
- 401(k) employer match
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Arif Nathoo
(CEO)Studied Medicine at Harvard. Former Associate Principal at McKinsey & Co for 7 years. Became a Senior Advisor for 2 years.
Web Sun
(President)Previously worked in Sales and Marketing at Merck&Co. VP of Business Development at Campbell Alliance.
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