Flatiron Health
Senior Software Engineer
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Senior Software Engineer
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us accomplish our mission to improve and extend lives by learning from the experience of every person with cancer. Are you ready to be the next changemaker in cancer care?
Flatiron Health is a healthtech company using data for good to power smarter care for every person with cancer, around the world. Flatiron partners with cancer centers in the US, Europe and Asia to transform patients’ real-life experiences into real-world evidence and create a more modern, connected oncology ecosystem. Our multidisciplinary teams include oncologists, data scientists, software engineers, epidemiologists, product experts and more. Flatiron Health is an independent affiliate of the Roche Group.
What You'll Do
- Design and develop technology in partnership with other software engineers in the US, UK, Germany, and Japan.
- Collaborate day-to-day with oncologists, clinicians, product leaders, quantitative scientists, and customers to understand their challenges and how technology can help solve them.
- Create new or enhance existing business critical, complex data pipelines using a variety of data processing tools and automation.
- Expand our capabilities in Deep Learning and LLM-powered extraction of clinical insights from global datasets.
- Devise creative solutions for technical and business challenges to help the team scale.
- Contribute to shaping the direction of team roadmaps and technology development.
- Help build our European engineering teams and company culture as we grow.
- Rapidly iterate on products while maintaining engineering practices that ensure quality and security.
- Bring or develop a deep knowledge of healthcare in the UK, including data sources, security, privacy, information governance requirements, and emerging trends.
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Who You Are
- A kind, passionate and collaborative problem-solver who values the opportunity to think beyond the way things are.
- Excited by the prospect of working on difficult and meaningful problems each day.
- Seeking and giving candid feedback, and valuing the chance to make an important impact on cancer patients and society.
- A data engineer with 4-8 years of relevant professional experience.
- Excited to work in a startup environment, think creatively and be scrappy to get the job done.
- Excited about working in a passionate, fast-paced, technology-driven culture.
- Having a nose for value and empathy for your customers.
- Experienced with agile development environments using object-oriented programming languages (e.g. Python, C#, SQL), but also language agnostic and willing to pick up new programming languages as needed.
- Experienced working with cloud platforms like AWS and data warehouse solutions like Snowflake.
- Experienced with data processing and orchestration tools such as Databricks, Spark, Ray, DBT, Prefect, and/or Airflow.
- Acting as an expert in your domain area, and as a partner with product teams.
- Understanding the purpose of “boring” technology (as described in this blog post) and willing to use the right tools to get the job done.
- Able to collaborate and easily explain technical terms to a non-technical, highly sophisticated audience; having superior communication skills.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and always willing to teach and learn.
- Fluent in English.
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- Experience working in healthcare in the UK or exposure to healthcare-related standards like HL7.
- Holding a Bachelors, Masters, and/or Ph.D. in computer science or a related field.
- Experience in infrastructure, devops, or security engineering.
Who We Are
Our people are at the centre of everything we do. We strive to foster a culture where our teammates feel equipped and empowered to make meaningful contributions with confidence, compassion, and clarity.
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