Software Engineer (Platform)

Oncora AI is an oncology software and data company dedicated to improving outcomes for cancer patients through real-world data. They are seeking an experienced engineer to develop their data platform, integrating and transforming various data sources to enhance cancer care and support clinical research.

Responsibilities:

• Developing pipelines to integrate new data elements into our normalized oncology schema
• Overseeing and monitoring our existing data infrastructure for stability, performance and accuracy
• Improving our data warehousing and reporting capabilities to support real-time analysis of tens of thousands of patients representing millions of data points
• Integrating standard and proprietary ontologies into our data enrichment processes
• Enhancing our de-identification capabilities to support machine learning and clinical research use-cases
• Building reusable integrations with major clinical systems (e.g. EMR/EHRs)
• Deploying updates frequently to immediately improve the state of cancer care
• Providing constructive feedback to your team members through code and architecture reviews

Requirements:

• A solid base of software engineering experience, typically 1-5 years, with at least part of that time in data-focused roles or projects
• Fluency with a functional or imperative language (we use Python)
• Experience working with relational and non-relational databases (we use Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, and ElasticSearch)
• Tendency to seek simple, elegant solutions to complex problems
• Ability to analyze and optimize existing solutions
• A focus on writing understandable, testable, and maintainable code
• Experience working with asynchronous and distributed systems (we use RabbitMQ)
• Familiarity with modern containerized environments (we use Docker & Kubernetes)
• Experience with healthcare data standards and integration is a huge plus (HL7, FHIR, DICOM, etc.)
• Experience designing data models for analytical and transactional workloads