Software Engineer, Komodo Health

• Experience designing APIs for use in web application development (synchronous vs asynchronous response patterns, caching strategies, etc.)
• Experience optimizing data retrieval processes supporting API output, as above, ideally within a low query volume / high data volume environment
• Demonstrably deep experience with Python
• Demonstrably deep experience with relevant ‘big data’ processing through a modern MPP database like Snowflake
• Understand and design for non-functional concerns such as performance, cost optimization, maintainability and developer experience
• Strong communication with engineers, product managers, and salespeople

Desirable

• As a member of Universal Cohort Creator (‘UCC’), the team responsible for Komodo’s standardized approach to healthcare cohort generation, you are ensuring that every product in our catalog has a standard, performant approach to meeting their core data needs
• You are responsible for the backbone data retrieval and transformations required by our internal service layer used to serve cohort generation along a variety of axes - patients, payers, providers, etc
• This role is primarily backend-focused, but ties into the end-to-end function of the complex cohort generation queries served through the cohort generation API, ensuring adherence to SLAs, and for the underlying caching necessary to support the variety of distinct access patterns across our entire product suite
• Looking back on your first 12 months at Komodo Health, you will have…
• Expanded or enhanced the UCC API’s internal data model to ensure timely performance for all types of cohort generation requests
• Partnered with product managers to understand the variety of internal and external cohort specification needs across a diverse set of use cases
• Managed technical dependencies between different microservices to ensure smooth operations
• You will accomplish these outcomes through...
• Performing updates to the UCC codebase to support product requirements
• Participating in the agile development process
• Collaborating with Data Engineers on the team to ensure correct pull-through of new assets, or changes to assets
• Triage of incoming support requests from our downstream engineering teams