Lead and mentor a platform engineering team responsible for core data services, ensuring operational stability while developing scalable features and APIs. Collaborate with various stakeholders to optimize healthcare data interoperability.
Who we are
Zus is a shared health data platform designed to accelerate healthcare data interoperability by providing easy-to-use patient data via API, embedded components, and direct EHR integrations. Founded in 2021 by Jonathan Bush, co-founder and former CEO of athenahealth, Zus partners with HIEs and other data networks to aggregate patient clinical history and then translates that history into user-friendly information at the point of care. Zus's mission is to catalyze healthcare's greatest inventors by maximizing the value of patient insights - so that they can build up, not around.
We are seeking an experienced leader to lead and expand one of our Platform teams. The Platform team is at the heart of everything at Zus and is responsible for our core data services, including our FHIR data store, Data marts, our Master Patient Index and Authentication and Authorization. Our work includes building new features to these core systems to support our customers’ and our own applications’ needs along with continually refinding these systems to support the increasing volume of data as we grow.
The ideal candidate will be excited to take on the challenge of processing, storing and delivering the entire health records of millions of patients, providing low latency and high-availability for all operations. You are creative, innovative and love to run experiments to explore the paths to evolve and develop our platform as we scale.
This is an exciting time to join Zus as we are growing and transforming both the team and our infrastructure to evolve to address the greater scale of data we expect as we grow. Your team will work on data services that operate on large scale data using a variety of AWS services (ECS Fargate, Lambda, DynamoDB, Postgres, S3, etc) that are used both internally and externally. Go is our language of choice and we use Terraform for managing our infrastructure-as-code. The team is responsible for deploying, maintaining, and operating its services.
As part of our team, you will
- Lead and mentor a high-performing team of software developers
- Partner with product managers, engineers, AI/ML experts, healthcare providers and the teams which support them to identify and develop platform use cases, and the associated features and fixes needed to support them
- Take ownership for making sure our business critical services remain safely operational for our customers
- Partner with product management in Agile sprint management rituals
- Work hands on as time allows with Zus codebases
You're a good fit because you...
- Have had some supervisory experience leading software engineers and are excited for more
- Are experienced in building and running large-scale systems in the cloud
- Are experienced in building services and APIs used by third-party developers
- Have experience with operationally stable and cost efficient data stores
- Enjoy owning complete microservices from the infrastructure up
- Have deep experience building backend software in any language (we use mostly Go)
You'll enjoy our culture if you
- Are scrappy and you move fast
- Don't need much handholding, you can be trusted to work independently
- Are excited to ~ finally! ~ enable a true digital revolution in healthcare
- Thrive amid the changing landscape of a growing and evolving startup
- Enjoy collaboration and solving unique problems
- Are in the Boston metro and excited to collaborate in person on a hybrid schedule, or are remote (EST/CST) but willing to travel for in person collaboration occasionally
It would be awesome if you were
- Knowledgeable about application security
- Experienced in working with healthcare data and APIs
- Familiar with the FHIR and/or TEFCA standards
We will offer you…
• Competitive compensation that reflects the value you bring to the team a combination of cash and equity
• Robust benefits that include health insurance, wellness benefits, 401k with a match, unlimited PTO
• Opportunity to work alongside a passionate team that is determined to help change the world (and have fun doing it)
Please Note: Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don’t apply unless they meet 100% of the job criteria. While we have worked to consolidate the minimum qualifications for each role, we aren’t looking for someone who checks each box on a page; we’re looking for active learners and people who care about disrupting the current healthcare system with their unique experiences.
We do not conduct interviews by text nor will we send you a job offer unless you've interviewed with multiple people, including the Director of People & Talent, over video interviews. Job scams do exist so please be careful with your personal information.
Top Skills
Aws Dynamodb
Aws Ecs Fargate
Aws Lambda
Aws S3
Fhir
Go
Postgres
Terraform
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