Senior Software Engineer

Paradigm Health

Senior Software Engineer leading high-impact initiatives on data platform for healthcare trials. Collaborating across teams to optimize solutions and support growth at Paradigm Health.

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $160,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowAWSCloudETLJavaKafkaKotlinPythonSparkSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the design and evolution of a scalable, multi-product data platform capable of supporting rapid growth (e.g., 600K to 2.5M+ patients) and expansion into new therapeutic areas
Drive large, cross-team engineering initiatives end-to-end—from architecture and planning through production—while owning dependencies, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring predictable delivery timelines
Architect, build, and optimize robust batch and streaming data pipelines with a focus on scalability, reusability, and enabling downstream team ownership
Modernize legacy systems into future-state, AI-first data infrastructure by defining best practices, improving observability, and advancing monitoring and failure detection capabilities
Partner closely with data science, product, and commercial teams to deliver reliable, AI-driven data solutions, ensuring alignment across product areas and enabling high-confidence integrations and outcomes
Deeply understand your product area, and how it impacts other product areas to effectively propose changes and how it impacts the success of the company.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ Years of experience in Data or Software Engineering
Bachelor’s degree in CS; Master’s degree preferred
Experience with ETL systems like DBT, Airflow and Dagster
A strong knowledge of SQL and have worked with a data warehouse system. We use Databricks at Paradigm
Experience with python and a compiled language like Java or Kotlin (i.e. JVM)
Working experience with building pipelines with Kafka, Spark, and other big data technologies
Experience building infrastructure using major cloud providers e.g. AWS and infrastructure as code solutions e.g. Terraform
Nice to have: You understand data and the pitfalls associated with it. You may have experience in working with HL7, FHIR or similar types of industry proprietary data feeds

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance
Mental health support for you and your family through Spring Health
Equity package
Unlimited paid time off (PTO)
16 weeks of paid parental leave
Flexible work options – remote and hybrid arrangements
Company-paid life insurance
Company-paid short-term and long-term disability coverage
One Medical membership
401(k) plan with company match

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Hard Skills & Tools

data engineeringETL systemsSQLdata warehousePythonJavaKotlinKafkaSparkinfrastructure as code

Soft Skills

leadershipstakeholder alignmentpredictable deliverycross-team collaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationproduct understandingchange proposalteam ownershipbest practices

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceMaster’s degree in Computer Science