Application Engineer, Waymark
$138-230k
Salary range varies depending on location. + Stock Options
Healthcare services for Medicaid patients
Job no longer available
Healthcare services for Medicaid patients
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$138-230k
Salary range varies depending on location. + Stock Options
21-100 employees
Company mission
To bring the best healthcare to people with Medicaid benefits.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a highly experienced Engineer to join the Data Engineering team in leading the effort to build ML/AI and Analytics-driven workflows and applications
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years focusing on data-intensive applications
- Expert-level proficiency in Python and at least one compiled language (e.g., Elixir, Java)
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud computing, and relational databases
- Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
- Strong background in software architecture, best practices including code quality-driven design and system optimization and scaling
- Knowledge/familiarity of (or direct experience with) machine learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch) and MLOps best practices
- Proven track record of leading complex technical projects and mentoring other engineers
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to navigate ambiguity in technical challenges
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
Desirable
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- Healthcare experience with healthcare data, privacy, and/or systems including claims and/or electronic health record data, FHIR/HL7, etc
What the job involves
- This role will sit between multiple teams - our engineering teams (data and web app) and our analytics and data science teams
- This role is critical in bridging the gap between exploratory data analysis and enterprise-grade data solutions to best serve our healthcare professionals
- Collaborate across multiple teams to understand complex algorithms, including ML/AI-driven workflows and build supporting infrastructure to scale, maintain, and integrate into our user-facing application
- Operate autonomously either alone or with other engineers leading the solving of problems across engineering and other Waymark teams
- Handle multiple ongoing efforts at once and have clear communication to others at Waymark on timelines, needs and blockers
- Design and develop reusable frameworks and libraries to streamline the process of operationalizing this work (ML/AI-driven workflows among others)
- Mentor and guide engineers in best practices and data system design
- Evaluate and integrate new technologies to improve our capabilities
Our take
Over 80M people in the U.S. receive healthcare coverage from Medicaid (and that’s only predicted to grow). However, in reality, that care is provided by an immensely fragmented group of privately run primary care providers (PCP).
Waymark is improving care through building technology and infrastructure services for these providers. For example, where local doctors need to connect with local pharmacists to manage a diabetic medicaid receiver’s insulin swings, communications and prescriptions will all be executed through the Waymark platform.
After a series of successful pilots, Waymark is looking to scale significantly after its 2022 investment of $45 million. That means racking up dozens of contract relationships with PCPs and using the data from tens of thousands of patients to further refine the product for national scale impact.
As Waymark’s leadership admits, there are many chasms on the road from academic publication to implementation at scale. However, the widespread enthusiasm for adopting systems that will help Medicaid fulfil its potential for millions of Americans will give the company confidence as it moves forward.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2023
$22m
EARLY VC
Jan 2022
$45m
SERIES A
Total funding: $67m
Company values
- We are bold builders | We believe the greatest challenges in care delivery can be solved when we harness the power of community and technology. We are not constrained by what others believe is possible, because we create solutions and we deliver care based on first principles
- We are humble learners | We seek feedback and perspectives different from our own, and welcome challenges to our conclusions. We see, in the diversity of our teams and partners, a set of experiences, perspectives and talents that make each of us better, and all of us better. We seek the wisdom that comes from facing challenges with patience, empathy, and generosity
- We experiment to improve | We actively seek data to inform decisions and to assess our own performance. We experiment and obsessively collect data as we test hypotheses and try new approaches. We measure and document our successes and our failures. In doing so, we celebrate the learning that comes from failures, and strive to make every success reproducible
- We act with focused urgency | Our commitment to our mission drives us to tirelessly pursue results. We run through walls to grow our impact, to serve and to do it better than we did before. And, we say ‘no’ to distractions that take us away from our focus on catalyzing improvements in outcomes for patients receiving Medicaid
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Sanjay Basu
(Head of Clinical)Dr. Basu received their education from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Oxford University (as a Rhodes Scholar), and Yale before completing their residency in internal medicine at the University of California in San Francisco. Dr. Basu has published over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles. Co-founded Possible Health and serves as a Fellow at Imperial College London and an Associate Professor at University of Toronto.
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