Senior Software Engineer

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead major initiatives that advance Datavant’s platform scalability and reliability. You’ll drive technical design, coach peers, and ensure system-wide quality and consistency.

What You’ll Do

• Own architectural design and end-to-end delivery for key systems or migrations.
• Partner with Product, Infrastructure, and Security teams to set technical direction.
• Design scalable microservices and guide system decomposition initiatives.
• Drive performance optimization, observability, and reliability improvements.
• Mentor engineers at multiple levels and enhance team culture through best practices.

Tech Stack You’ll Work With

• Backend: Python, Go, Java; microservices; REST and GraphQL
• Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js
• Infrastructure & Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda), Docker, Kubernetes; IaC tools
• Data: Snowflake, Spark, SQL; S3 for raw data
• ETL & Pipelines: Airflow/Glue
• Streaming: Kafka or Kinesis
• Observability: DataDog, Grafana, CloudWatch
• Security: OAuth2/SAML, encryption, tokenization, zero-trust architecture

What You Bring

• 6+ years of professional experience developing and scaling distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in system design, cloud-native architectures, and backend frameworks.
• Proven record of leading major technical projects from inception to launch.
• Strong collaboration with cross-functional teams (Product, Design, Infrastructure, Security).
• Commitment to data integrity, privacy, and operational excellence.

Leadership Qualities & Mindset

Provides architectural leadership and technical clarity. Identify systemic issues and drive cross-team solutions.

• Inspire confidence through technical expertise and build talent through thoughtful mentorship.
• Balance innovation with pragmatic execution and long-term maintainability.
• Act with humility, integrity, and focus on team success.
• Drive alignment between engineering goals and business outcomes.

Core Value Expectations

• Earn trust through high-quality architectural decisions and transparent leadership.
• Obsess over customers by prioritizing reliable, secure, scalable systems.
• Prioritize growth over comfort by tackling complex, ambiguous technical challenges.
• Win as a team by facilitating alignment and resolving cross-team challenges.
• Rise to the challenge by owning key initiatives and elevating organizational excellence.