Tech Lead, Data Engineering

Role Overview

• Own delivery end to end from technical specs, phased migrations, deprecation plans and more.
• Take architectural plans and turn them into shipped software
• sequenced, risk-managed and on schedule.
• Design and implement backend services that handle complex business logic
• configuration management, workflow orchestration, data validation and integrations across internal and external systems.
• Design APIs, model data, write tests and review pull requests that make the whole team better.
• Collaborate on architecture, define domain boundaries, set API standards and bring your own ideas about how to solve hard problems. You will have real influence over how these systems evolve.
• Pilot tools where they help, document patterns and scale what works. AI assists; engineers remain accountable for correctness, security and privacy.
• Define testing strategies, establish observability standards and strengthen runbooks.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing and technical guidance.
• Partner with Product, Partnerships and Clinical Operations to understand requirements and partner-facing implications.
• Coordinate with Data/AI on integration points.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree at a minimum.
• 6+ years of backend engineering experience (or equivalent), with at least 2 years in a technical leadership role
• Lech Lead, Senior Engineer leading a team or similar.
• Strong Python fluency. You’ve built and operated production services in Python
• ideally with FastAPI or similar async frameworks.
• Deep relational database experience. You understand schema design, indexing strategies, query performance, data integrity constraints and migration patterns; PostgreSQL preferred.
• Experience designing and building APIs that other teams depend on. You think about contracts, versioning, backward compatibility and clear error semantics.
• Solid understanding of data modeling for complex business domains. You’ve worked in systems where the domain logic is the hard part, not just the infrastructure.
• Experience with service-oriented or event-driven architectures. You’ve built or decomposed systems that communicate through well-defined interfaces and domain events.
• You’ve built systems where events can arrive out of order or twice
• and you design for idempotency, retries and safe backfills.
• You’ve worked on systems with complex state machines, workflow orchestration or multi-step business processes.
• You think about schema evolution, backward compatibility and how systems change over time without breaking consumers.
• You can take a technical spec or architecture document and turn it into a clear execution plan with milestones, dependencies and risk callouts.
• You’ve led small teams (3-8 engineers) through complex projects and shipped on time. You know how to scope aggressively and cut scope wisely.
• You default to pragmatism over perfection. You know when to build it right and when to build it now.
• You communicate technical complexity clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• You’re opinionated about code quality but not dogmatic. You care about readability, testability and maintainability.
• You’re excited about AI-assisted development and actively use modern tools to improve your own workflow.

Tech Stack

• Postgres
• Python