Data Engineer

Job Title: Data Engineer

Location: Remote

Reports to: Director, Data Strategy

Key Relationships: Data Science, Data Stratefy, Digital Product Engineering

About Podimetrics: 

Founded in 2011, Podimetrics set out on a mission to improve patient lives through early detection and prevention of diabetic foot ulcers, the leading cause of lower limb amputations. Podimetrics has since evolved to become a rapidly growing virtual care management company with advanced technology and patient-centered services.

Today, Podimetrics teams with and provides solutions to patients, payers and providers that alleviate the  health and financial implications of diabetic foot complications in high-risk populations. We are a mission  driven, financially responsible enterprise that enables patients to stand on their own feet and live more  independent and fulfilling lives. 

Core Values:

• Mission First: We are here to drive critical change, bring hope and compassionate care to those in great need.
• People Matter Most: We advance our mission by caring for our people (colleagues, patients, providers, customers and stockholders), treating them with kindness and respect.
• Courageous Action: We are driven to act and demand mutual accountability. We believe that missteps foster learning and iterative improvement.
• Healthy Debate: We commit to transparent discussion and resulting decisions. The very best decisions come from differing points of view, requiring good intentions, mutual trust and no ego.
• Deep Curiosity: We are always striving to learn more and do better. We question if the best we have ever done couldn’t be improved further.

Role Description:

We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer with a strong bias to action, natural curiosity, and the ability to work independently while partnering effectively across teams. As part of the Data Science & Strategy organization, you will play a central role in building and maintaining the systems, pipelines, and models that power analytics, machine learning, operational workflows, and strategic decision-making at Podimetrics.

Your work directly supports our mission: improving patient lives through early detection and prevention of diabetic foot complications. You will own critical components of our modern data stack - Google BigQuery, Airflow, cloud infrastructure, dbt, and Python-based pipelines - ensuring our data is accurate, timely, reliable, and accessible.

This is a highly technical, high-impact individual contributor role for someone who loves solving complex problems, thrives in ambiguity, and communicates exceptionally well with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain enterprise data warehouse structures and pipelines in BigQuery to support analytics, operational workflows, and ML.
• Develop and maintain dbt models, tests, and documentation to standardize and transform data in line with our data strategy.
• Ensure consistent, reliable data structures by owning data modeling standards, documentation, and best practices.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve existing pipelines with an emphasis on automation, maintainability, and data quality.
• Partner with analysts, data scientists, and stakeholders to design datasets that are high quality, well-modeled, and optimized for analytics and reporting.
• Support dashboard and reporting development by optimizing SQL queries and ensuring fit-for-purpose data sources.
• Work closely with digital product engineering to ensure new application features capture high-quality, usable data.
• Implement best practices for data testing, data lineage, and data governance within dbt and downstream tools.
• Investigate and resolve data quality issues by identifying root causes and delivering sustainable, technically sound solutions.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve data reliability, scalability, and usability across the organization.

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in data engineering or a related technical role.
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with cloud-based warehouses (BigQuery strongly preferred).
• Professional experience building and managing pipelines using Python, including API integrations.
• Hands-on experience with dbt (or willingness and ability to ramp quickly).
• Experience with Git/GitHub and modern CI/CD practices for data
• Experience with structured logging, monitoring, and observability tools
• Experience with CI/CD for data (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, etc.)

Competencies:

• Bias to action: You move quickly, take ownership, and unblock yourself whenever possible.
• Independence: You are comfortable operating with limited direction while keeping stakeholders informed.
• Active Listener: You ask questions, seek context, and translate needs into technical solutions.
• Curious Problem Solver: You naturally dig into root causes, systems behavior, and opportunities to improve.
• Accuracy and Detail-Orientation: You create and review new code thoroughly and accurately; ensuring inconsistencies don’t slip through the cracks.
• Reliability and Responsibility: You take ownership and responsibility for operational excellence and contributions to a positive patient experience. You foster confidence from the team by consistently exceeding expectations, including timely responses and attendance of meetings in a remote setting

Benefits:

• Base Pay: 125k base salary 
• Annual Bonus Opportunity
• Equity Options
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Paid Sick Leave
• Paid Parental Leave
• Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans – Podimetrics covers 80% of premiums.
• Health Savings Account with employer contribution
• Employee Assistance Program - Free, confidential advice for team members who need help with stress, anxiety, financial planning, and legal issues.
• 401k
• Life Insurance - Podimetrics pays 100% of the cost of Basic Life & Personal Accident
• Disability insurance – Podimetrics pays 100% of the cost of Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Additional life insurance, critical illness, and accident coverage are available

Podimetrics is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.