Staff Data Engineer, PayZen
$200-237k
+ Equity
Fintech for healthcare affordability
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Fintech for healthcare affordability
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-237k
+ Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To bring financial health to healthcare.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering or related roles, with a track record of owning and delivering reliable, performant data platforms and services
- Strong grasp of concepts and methods for capturing, transforming, testing, and storing data assets in a cloud-native environment; demonstrated ability to make sound design choices, evangelize solutions, and drive implementation and adoption of a modern data architecture
- Experience solving complex data problems using SQL and Python; familiarity with Pandas, Spark, CTEs, window functions, or other data-focused libraries
- Experience designing and evolving data models (e.g., star/snowflake schemas, normalized models, data marts, semantic layers) and driving consistency and reusability across analytics and product use cases
- Prior experience in healthcare or FinTech, and familiarity with HIPAA, PHI, or financial data compliance and security practices, is a plus
What the job involves
- PayZen is on a mission to bring financial health to healthcare
- Our products improve both access and affordability for patients and cash flow & administrative complexity for medical providers
- We are trusted by a rapidly growing number of health systems, hospitals, and physician groups and are backed by leading venture capital investors, including NEA, SignalFire, Viola Group, and 7Wire Ventures
- PayZen is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to develop and oversee scalable FinTech data solutions
- In this role you’ll be responsible for evolving and implementing PayZen’s data architecture and platform strategy—including owning the technical direction for the data domain, setting standards and best practices, and driving scalable, reliable data systems that support product, analytics, and business decisions across the company
- Design and implement scalable, reliable data architectures (data warehouse, data lake/lakehouse, hybrid) and data models (e.g., dimensional, normalized, semantic layers) that support current and future product and analytics needs
- Drive data best practices, patterns, and governance (e.g., data quality, test automation, alerting/monitoring, lineage, documentation) across the organization
- Improve data pipelines, orchestration, and tooling so data is accessible, accurate, complete, and performant for cross-functional consumers
- Work with product, engineering, and business leaders to make data accessible for AI/ML, analytics, supporting clear, actionable insights and reliable foundations for decision-making and customer-facing products
- Guide and mentor other data engineers; contribute to hiring, leveling, and technical development of the data engineering function
Our take
More than half of Americans cannot cover an unexpected medical expense of $1,000. To help solve this healthcare affordability crisis, PayZen offers personalized payment options. Using AI and machine learning, patient’s data is analysed to evaluate their ability to pay, making it possible to pre-emptively support those in financial difficulty.
PayZen works for patients and medical providers. Providers can expect to get a much higher collection rate with accelerated cash flow, without having to pay software costs or program fees, whist patients receive affordable and flexible access to care without interest or fees. A patient’s debt doesn’t increase, as they never have to pay more than the cost of the service.
While the Buy-Now-Pay-Later space in healthcare is becoming increasingly overcrowded - Afterpay and Sezzle, for example, allow customers to pay their medical bills in interest-free instalments - PayZen's strong funding history puts it in a good position from which to grow. It has used funds to accelerate its mission and launch new ventures such as the "Care Card", that offers the benefits of its payment plans in the form of a physical and virtual debit card.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2024
$32m
SERIES B
Nov 2022
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $72m
Company benefits
- Hybrid Schedule: In-office Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, remote Wednesday and Friday
- Flexibility: PayZen offers discretionary time-off and 16 weeks of parental leave for US-based roles
- Connection: Team meals, collaborative spaces, and global events that foster stronger relationships
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Ariel Rosenthal
(Co-founder & CTO)Previously co-founded Zmani and Brainpickin, and served as CEO for Xprt App Solutions. Experience as a Full-Stack Developer for Houzz, IvyMark, Highcon and VideoStir.
Itzik Cohen
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously founded Clipsync and served as CEO, as well as for IGC Media and Beyonce Finance. Spent nearly 7 years as VP of Corporate Development for WebEx Communications.
Tobias Mezger
(Co-Founder & CRO)Previously spent nearly 8 years as the Principal of The Boston Consulting Group before serving as VP of Corporate Development and Strategy for Prosper Marketplace.
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