Design Ecosystems: Create coherent designs across multiple pipelines and API boundaries. Reduce complex concepts to foundational components and simplify infrastructure to lower maintenance costs.
Drive Engineering Excellence: Make high-impact technical choices—including "build vs. buy" and framework selections— based on sound reasoning.
Review designs to preemptively identify and resolve technical risks.
Improve Developer Efficiency: Implement solutions that measurably improve developer efficiency and establish engineering-wide quality and best practices.
Deliver at Scale: Roll out major features and systems reliably, including appropriate monitoring, failure domain characterization, and success metric definitions.
Manage Data Quality & Governance: Enforce data governance policies (PII/PHI protection, security, compliance) and implement data quality principles to raise the bar for the reliability of data shared internally and externally.
Influence Cross-Functionally: Influence the roadmaps of other SmithRx teams.
Mentor and Develop: Serve as a role model and coach for other engineers, taking into account their unique skills and providing constructive feedback to maximize their impact.
Champion Organizational Change: Break down silos, build deep cross-functional relationships, and create excitement to drive the adoption of new technologies or processes across the organization.
Requirements
We empower our Data Analytics and Machine Learning teams to make drug pricing transparent and easy to understand.
We leverage open-source tools like Airflow and DBT built on top of industry-leading data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake), utilize LLMs to optimize workflows, and use Python heavily in our daily work. What you will do:
Align with Business Goals: Leverage a deep understanding of SmithRx’s business strategy to identify group-wide opportunities.
experience in data engineering with an advanced degree or 12+ years with an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. (Start-up and healthcare experience is highly desirable).
Demonstrated mastery of data modeling concepts, database design principles, and data warehouse technologies (e.g., Snowflake) through production-grade implementations.
Strong skills in PySpark, SQL, and Python are required.
Experience in modern object-oriented or compiled languages such as C#/C++, Go, Java, or Scala is a plus. Hands-on
experience with leading ETL tools and frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, dbt, Looker, Superset). In-depth
experience managing the entire data lifecycle, with direct responsibility for the development, implementation, and production release of complex data processing solutions utilizing distributed systems.
A proven track record of making decisions optimized for the wider engineering organization rather than locally optimal outcomes, especially in environments with significant ambiguity.
Experience
8+ years of years of industrial
Benefits
We believe that the U.S healthcare system is in need of transformation, and we come to work each day dedicated to making that change a reality.
Define Technical Vision: Define the long-term data engineering strategy guided by company-wide priorities and engineering best practices.
benefits including Medical, Pharmacy, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance and AD&D Insurance
Flexible Spending Benefits
401(k) Retirement Savings Program
Discretionary Paid Time Off
12 Paid Company Holidays Wellness Benefits
Paid Parental Leave benefits
Additional details
SmithRx is a rapidly growing, venture-backed Health-Tech company. Our mission is to disrupt the expensive and inefficient Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) sector by building a next-generation drug acquisition platform driven by cutting edge technology, innovative cost saving tools, and best-in-class customer service. With hundreds of thousands of members onboarded since 2016, SmithRx has a solution that is resonating with clients all across the country.
We pride ourselves for our mission-driven and collaborative culture that inspires our employees to do their best work.
Integrity: Our purpose guides our actions and gives us confidence in the path ahead.
With unwavering honesty and dependability, we embrace the pressure of challenging the old and exemplify ethical leadership to create the new.
Courage: We face continuous challenges with grit and resilience.
We embrace the discomfort of the unknown by balancing autonomy with empathy, and ownership with vulnerability.
We boldly challenge the status quo to keep moving forward—always.
Together: The success of SmithRx reflects the strength of our partnerships and the commitment of our team.
Our shared values bind us together and make us one.
When one falls, we all fall; when one rises, we all rise. Job Summary: