PocketHealth
Data Engineer
TLDR
Play a crucial role in architecting data solutions that enhance healthcare for over 2 million patients, with opportunities for mentorship and hands-on exposure to machine learning.
What if you could personally impact the future of healthcare? As part of the PocketHealth team, you will enable hospitals and clinics across North America — and more importantly, empower over 2 million patients — to discover a better healthcare experience.
PocketHealth is a patient-centric platform that enables hospitals and clinics across North America to share imaging records digitally with patients, instantly and securely. Through our platform, we enable patients to be active and engaged participants in their own care, and take control of their care journey. In addition to image sharing, which is the heart of the PocketHealth platform, we’ve grown our core functionality to enable sharing between hospitals and physicians, as well as instant image retrieval and automated importing capability. PocketHealth is a unified image management solution for over 800 hospitals and clinics across North America. We believe that by placing patients at the center of the record release process, data moves more ethically, easily and securely throughout the care journey, and we’re looking for passionate individuals to help make this vision a reality for millions more patients across North America.
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a crucial role in architecting and developing the infrastructure that powers our data-driven solutions, ultimately enhancing the healthcare experience for more than a million patients and healthcare providers. Ideal candidates will possess a high degree of user empathy and a focus on the quality and speed of our product. Our patients simply can’t afford to wait!
In this role you will:
Build and maintain data models and transformation workflows that support analytics, reporting, and product use cases.
Support the development and improvement of data pipelines and systems to process and analyze healthcare data, gaining experience across the full data engineering lifecycle from ingestion and transformation to storage and consumption.
Work with Python and SQL to transform, validate, and troubleshoot data across our platform.
Contribute to our Databricks-based analytics platform and help improve the usability, quality, and documentation of our datasets.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand their data needs and contribute to our data infrastructure roadmap.
Gain hands-on exposure to machine learning workflows - from data preparation and feature engineering to model training - with room to grow deeper as the team and your skills evolve.
What you’ll need to be successful:
1–2 years of engineering experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, software engineering, or a related field, including strong internship or co-op experience.
Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Strong fundamentals in Python and SQL.
Hands-on experience working with structured data in an internship, research, academic, or early-career industry setting.
Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail, with a focus on delivering high-quality solutions.
A collaborative mindset, strong communication skills, and eagerness to learn in a fast-paced environment.
Nice to have:
Exposure to Databricks or similar modern data platforms.
Practical exposure to machine learning concepts such as model training, feature engineering, or evaluation.
You can do amazing things at PocketHealth. You can positively impact the healthcare journey for millions of people, while building your career and developing your skills. It doesn’t have to be one or the other. It has been a part of our mission since our founding to empower patients & make healthcare accessible to all, and we know this can only be achieved with a team of diverse perspectives that is representative of the Patient & Provider communities we serve.
People love working here for these reasons and more: working remotely, our competitive salaries and benefits (including stock options for every employee!), four weeks of paid time off, unlimited paid wellness days, extended mental health coverage, and 16 weeks of parental leave top-up.
We’re proud to foster a culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we believe in caring for our employees with the same thoughtfulness we offer our Patients & Providers.
If there are ways we can support you through the recruitment process with an accommodation, please let us know by reaching out to [email protected]. Applications are accepted via posting only.
Benefits
Equity Compensation
including stock options for every employee
Paid Time Off
four weeks of paid time off, unlimited paid wellness days, extended mental health coverage, and 16 weeks of parental leave top-up
Remote-Friendly
working remotely
PocketHealth builds a patient-centric platform that allows hospitals and clinics across North America to share imaging records digitally with patients in a secure and instant manner. Our service focuses on empowering patients with easy access to their health information, streamlining communication between medical facilities and individuals.
Data Engineer