Senior Software Engineer, Academics

About the role

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help reimagine the infrastructure of cancer care within a community that values integrity, inspires growth, and is uniquely positioned to create a more modern, connected oncology ecosystem. This role will develop and maintain integrations with Academic and Health System Partners, building and evolving infrastructure that forms the backbone of Academics Integrations at Flatiron, including management of structured and unstructured data sources.

You will collaborate with teams across our UK, Germany, and Japan offices, working closely with oncologists, clinicians, product leaders, quantitative scientists, and customers to understand their challenges and how technology can solve them.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, including shaping the direction of roadmaps and technology development.
• Help build our scaling strategy for Academics and Health Systems partnerships.
• Devise creative solutions for technical and business challenges.
• Rapidly iterate on products while maintaining engineering practices that ensure quality and security.
• Raise the bar for developer experience and operational excellence by establishing and upholding rigorous operational and observability frameworks in service of robust, high-throughput pipelines.
• Promote technical excellence and elegant infrastructure design with teammates and customers.
• Work with complex data pipelines using a variety of data processing tools.
• Bring or develop a deep knowledge of healthcare in the US, including data sources, security requirements, and emerging trends.

Requirements

• A minimum of 6 years of relevant professional software engineering experience.
• A bachelor’s, master’s, and/or Ph.D. in computer science or a related field.
• Experience as a technical lead of a small team, helping scale an ambitious roadmap.
• Ability to work in a collaborative, cross-functional environment, think creatively, and be scrappy to get the job done.
• A nose for value and empathy for customers.
• Experience with agile development environments using programming languages like Python, C++, SQL, Java, and R, but also language agnostic and willing to pick up new languages as needed.
• Experience working with cloud platforms like AWS, data warehouse solutions like Snowflake, and ETL frameworks like DBT and Databricks.
• Belief in using "boring technology" (as described in this blog post) and applying the right tools for the job.
• Excitement about working in a passionate, fast-paced, technology-driven culture.
• Ability to collaborate and explain technical terms to a non-technical, highly sophisticated audience.
• Excitement about engaging with customers and designing collaboration models that scale across industries.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a willingness to teach and learn.

Nice to have

• Experience working in hospitals or Academic Medical Centers in the US.
• Experience in machine learning, data engineering, infrastructure, devops, or security engineering.
• 1-2 years managing engineers, or an interest in managing engineers.
• Experience developing integrations with external stakeholders and data sources.
• Comfort or willingness to go deep into the data engineering toolbox, with tools such as Databricks, DBT, and Prefect.
• Experience in the health data space, collaborating with scientific stakeholders (e.g., biostatisticians, clinicians, researchers).

Schedule

This is a hybrid role with a defined work location that includes work from home and 3 office days set by you and your team.

Benefits

• Work/life autonomy via flexible work hours and flexible paid time off.
• Comprehensive compensation package.
• 401(k) contribution to help you reach your retirement planning goals.
• Financial health resources including 1:1 financial advice.
• Mental well-being tools and services.
• Parental benefits and policies including family-building care and generous leave.
• Path to parenthood programs supporting fertility, adoption, and surrogacy.
• Travel support for safe healthcare services.

In addition to these benefits, Flatiron supports continuous learning and celebrates inclusion and belonging in the workplace. Learn more on the Life at Flatiron page.

Pay

Salary Range: $152,000.00 - $209,000.00 (based on the preferred primary location of the role, which is the NY office). Base pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. An annual bonus and equity may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to medical, financial, and other benefits.