ABOUT THIS ROLE

The Lead Engineer is responsible for design, implementation and delivery of backend services, data platform frameworks, pipelines, microservices, and other features. He / She will evaluate and build proofs of concept and production code for Cloud PaaS and IaaS backend offerings that support data management, infrastructure, AI services, and industry interoperoperability.

He / She should contribute to projects and development efforts using agile methodologies. The Lead Engineer will be working with teams of as many as twelve engineers and participate in sprint planning meetings. The Lead Engineer will be able to give advice and mentorship to junior and senior engineers and work collaboratively with architects to make recommendations about appropriate tools, technologies and techniques.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Evaluate and build proofs of concept for Cloud PaaS and IaaS offerings that promote data liquidity and support support data management, infrastructure, AI services, and industry interoperoperability.
• Write traditional code and server-less functions using the right language for the task, which may be SQL, Python, C#, Java, PowerShell, SSIS/BIML, and others.
• Participate in build-buy-open source decisions for parsing and managing industry standard formats such as FHIR/NDJSON, pipe-and-hat HL7, and x12 EDI.
• Evaluate, select, and apply Cloud and OO design and resiliency patterns.
• Build APIs and data microservices to share our data with internal and external partners, and write interfaces to public data sets to enrich our analytics data stores.
• Participate in building and owning a DevOps culture.
• Continuously document your code, framework standards, and team processes.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 5+ years of experience in an enterprise or commercial software development environment
• 2+ years leading a team of engineers
• Extensive experience developing data-intensive solutions in a Cloud environment.
• Enterprise development experience coding in at least one, but preferably more than one, procedural/OO language, e.g., C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, C++, PowerShell
• Enterprise experience developing solutions that use event sourcing and/or Big Data architectures.
• Team player who is not afraid to ask questions, take risks, share in owning team victories as well as team failures
• Good communicator – both written and verbal – with high emotional intelligence
• Ability to focus on MVP and shipping software while remaining cognizant of the long-term costs of technical debt
• Healthcare data background a must
• MUST HAVE THE RIGHT TO WORK IN THE US WITHOUT VISA SPONSORSHIP

Ideal candidates come to the table with one or more additional competencies, such as:

• Exposure to Enterprise Data Warehouse , Data Lake, Big Data, unstructured data, in-memory data stores
• Familiarity with NoSQL database systems such as MongoDB, Cassandra, CosmosDB, neo4j etc.
• Familiarity with Kimball-like star and snowflake data models and columnstore Indexing
• Experience building metadata-driven data pipeline frameworks for quickly mapping, onboarding, and ingesting data from a wide variety of partner sources
• Enterprise experience with data movement and management in the Cloud utilizing some combination of Azure and/or AWS features such as Data Factory, Blob Storage, Service Bus, Kafka, Redis, S3 Buckets, Azure Automation, Machine Learning, elastic search, Glue etc.
• Data Science training or experience to better understand and collaborate with one of our key data consumers (notably, this is still an engineering role and not a data science role)
• CRM experience, such as MS Dynamics or SalesForce

ABOUT US

At Bright Health, we brought together the brightest minds from the health care industry and consumer technology and together we created Bright Health: a new, brighter approach to healthcare, built for individuals. Our plans are easy to manage, personalized and more affordable, giving people the quality care they deserve. Through our exclusive care partnerships with leading health systems in local communities we are reshaping how people and physicians achieve better health together.

Bright Health is tripling its footprint in 2019 to offer a variety of health insurance plans to more individuals. Bright Health operates health insurance offerings across Individual and Family Plan segments and the Medicare Advantage space in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Ohio, New York and Tennessee.

We’re Making Healthcare Right. Together. 

We've won some fun awards like: Great Places to Work, Modern Healthcare, Forbes, etc. But more than anything, we're a group of people who are really dedicated to our mission in healthcare. Come join our growing team!

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we welcome and employ a diverse employee group committed to meeting the needs of Bright Health, our consumers, and the communities we serve. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

BRIGHT ON!