SmarterDx, a Smarter Technologies company, builds clinical AI that is transforming how hospitals translate care into payment. Founded by physicians in 2020, our platform connects clinical context with revenue intelligence, helping health systems recover millions in missed revenue, improve quality scores, and appeal every denial. Become a Smartian and help optimize the way the healthcare system works for everyone. Learn more at smarterdx.com/careers.
Role
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to advance our clinical AI by building scalable pipelines and infrastructure for data ingestion, processing, and analysis. You'll integrate and standardize diverse healthcare data (clinical, coding, billing) and design resilient, fault-tolerant frameworks and data models leveraging AWS (S3, Lambda, Step Functions, Batch).
You'll join a dynamic, cross-functional team at the heart of our product strategy, significantly impacting our speed and reliability. Responsibilities include creating and maintaining data pipelines, optimizing existing infrastructure and data models (dbt), and supporting expansion to new products and data sources. This role spans the full data lifecycle, shaping the foundation for next-generation clinical AI solutions.
**This role is fully remote within the US**
What You’ll Do
- Design, develop, and maintain dbt data models that support our healthcare analytics products.
- Integrate and transform customer data to conform to our data specifications and pipelines.
- Design and execute initiatives that improve data platform and pipeline automation and resilience.
- Participate in a rotation of engineers that diagnose, triage, and solve production data issues.
- Apply industry standards and best practices to data testing, observability, and platform stability.
What You Bring
- 5+ years of data engineering development experience with a focus on cloud-based data pipelines and infrastructure.
- Expertise with data modeling in SQL, using tools such as dbt, Informatica, Apache Spark
- Expertise in relational and columnar databases.
- Experience implementing GitHub CI/CD.
- Experience implementing scalable, event-driven architectures using AWS managed services.
- Experience with data orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, etc).
- Excellent communication and team collaboration skills.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Nice To Haves
- Experience at a scale-up, or rapid growth, technology company
- Experience working in the healthcare industry involving clinical and/or billing/claims data
- Experience with Snowflake
- Experience with Terraform, OpenTofu, or AWS CDK
- Experience with Fivetran
- Experience with monitoring tools (Sentry.io, Datadog)
Our Tech Stack
- Databases: Snowflake (primary), Postgres
- Cloud Infrastructure: AWS (CDK, S3, MWAA, EventBridge, Batch, Lambda, Step Functions), Fivetran
- Languages: SQL, Python, Typescript, dbt
$200k - $220k
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- Medical, Dental & Vision – Comprehensive plans with leading insurance providers, covering 75% of your premiums, depending on the plan.
- Paid Parental Leave – Generous paid leave to support families through birth or adoption: Up to 12 weeks for parents.
- Remote-First Team – Work from anywhere in the U.S.
- Unlimited PTO & 10 Holidays – So you can relax and recharge.
- 401(k) with Traditional & Roth Options – Tax-advantaged retirement savings through Fidelity with a 4% match.
- Minimal Bureaucracy – A fast-moving, high-impact environment where you can focus on what matters.
- Incredible Teammates! – Work alongside smart, supportive, and mission-driven colleagues.
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