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Guided by our mission to make the world’s health data secure, accessible and actionable, we provide critical data solutions for organizations across the healthcare ecosystem - including providers, health plans, researchers, and life sciences companies. From fulfilling a single patient’s request for their medical records to powering the AI revolution in healthcare, Datavanters are building the future of how data is connected and used to improve health. \nBy joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a driven and highly collaborative team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare.\nSenior Software Engineer \nThe Role\nAs a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead major initiatives that advance Datavant’s platform scalability and reliability. You’ll drive technical design, coach peers, and ensure system-wide quality and consistency.\nWhat You’ll Do\nOwn architectural design and end-to-end delivery for key systems or migrations.\nPartner with Product, Infrastructure, and Security teams to set technical direction.\nDesign scalable microservices and guide system decomposition initiatives.\nDrive performance optimization, observability, and reliability improvements.\nMentor engineers at multiple levels and enhance team culture through best practices.\nTech Stack You’ll Work With \n Senior engineers at this level are expected to leverage Datavant technologies effectively, demonstrate fluency across the stack, and use their architectural experience to design systems that are scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable within Datavant’s platform. Your work will span Datavant’s core platform technologies, including:\nBackend: Python, Go, Java; microservices; REST and GraphQL\nFrontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js\nInfrastructure & Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda), Docker, Kubernetes; IaC tools\nData: Snowflake, Spark, SQL; S3 for raw data\nETL & Pipelines: Airflow/Glue\nStreaming: Kafka or Kinesis\nObservability: DataDog, Grafana, CloudWatch\nSecurity: OAuth2/SAML, encryption, tokenization, zero-trust architecture\nWhat You Bring\n6+ years of professional experience developing and scaling distributed systems.\nDeep expertise in system design, cloud-native architectures, and backend frameworks.\nProven record of leading major technical projects from inception to launch.\nStrong collaboration with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, Infrastructure, Security).\nCommitment to data integrity, privacy, and operational excellence.\nLeadership Qualities & Mindset\nProvides architectural leadership and technical clarity. Identify systemic issues and drive cross-team solutions.\nInspire confidence through technical expertise and build talent through thoughtful mentorship.\nBalance innovation with pragmatic execution and long-term maintainability.\nAct with humility, integrity, and focus on team success.\nDrive alignment between engineering goals and business outcomes.\nCore Value Expectations\nEarn trust through high-quality architectural decisions and transparent leadership.\nObsess over customers by prioritizing reliable, secure, scalable systems.\nPrioritize growth over comfort by tackling complex, ambiguous technical challenges.\nWin as a team by facilitating alignment and resolving cross-team challenges.\nRise to the challenge by owning key initiatives and elevating organizational excellence.\nWhy This Role Matters\nAs a Senior Software Enginer, you ensure the engineering organization’s systems are resilient, maintainable, and aligned with Datavant’s mission to securely connect healthcare data. You play a central role in advancing architecture and engineering culture.\nWe are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.\nAt Datavant our total rewards strategy powers a high-growth, high-performance, health technology company that rewards our employees for transforming health care through creating industry-defining data logistics products and services.\nThe range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job.\nThe estimated total cash compensation range for this role is:\n$180,000—$220,000 USD\nTo ensure the safety of patients and staff, many of our clients require post-offer health screenings and proof and/or completion of various vaccinations such as the flu shot, Tdap, COVID-19, etc. Any requests to be exempted from these requirements will be reviewed by Datavant Human Resources and determined on a case-by-case basis. Depending on the state in which you will be working, exemptions may be available on the basis of disability, medical contraindications to the vaccine or any of its components, pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions, and/or religion.\nThis job is not eligible for employment sponsorship.\nDatavant is committed to a work environment free from job discrimination. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status. To learn more about our commitment, please review our EEO Commitment Statement here. Know Your Rights, explore the resources available through the EEOC for more information regarding your legal rights and protections. In addition, Datavant does not and will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay. \nAt the end of this application, you will find a set of voluntary demographic questions. If you choose to respond, your answers will be anonymous and will help us identify areas for improvement in our recruitment process. (We can only see aggregate responses, not individual ones. In fact, we aren’t even able to see whether you’ve responded.) Responding is entirely optional and will not affect your application or hiring process in any way.\nDatavant is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with physical and mental disabilities. If you need an accommodation while seeking employment, please request it here, by selecting the ‘Interview Accommodation Request’ category. You will need your requisition ID when submitting your request, you can find instructions for locating it here. 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