Senior Software Engineer, Data Solutions

About the Role:  

As a skilled and mission-driven Senior Software Engineer, Data Solutions, you will lead, direct, drive and participate in the day-to-day operations of a team of software, and UI/UX engineers working closely with QA engineers, product owners and business.  You provide technical leadership for multiple, diverse, and geographically distributed teams. You will coach and guide teams to enable future success. Also be a partner with engineering managers, directors and VP on strategic initiatives and future business growth opportunities especially around AI and ensuring the engineering organization can scale to meet the need.

As a member of the engineering team, you are responsible for coaching, mentoring, managing, and leading the talent within an agile environment.

Your day to day:

• Help shape the direction of our data solution features in our products. Drive the deployment of state-of-the-art data products and user experiences that directly impact on the capabilities and performance of Abacus’s products and services 
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including AI engineers, data engineers, and product teams, to deliver impactful data solutions that enhance user experience with our data products
• Skillful at driving critical projects (e.g. Data products engineering and Innovation, Development Productivity and Benchmarking)
• Adept at clear, confident communication with executive staff
• Meaningful experience in the world of Data and AI
• Capable of credible customer interactions
• Mentoring development team members to ensure delivered solutions adhere to the software architecture strategy, coding standards, and established organizational policies and procedures
• Participating in software architectural discussions, influencing decisions, and collaborating with peers to maintain consistency across the organization
• Identifying people and process improvement strategies for the Agile/Scrum team(s)
• Communicate organizational updates to ensure teams adhere to the established policies and procedures
• Help shape the roadmap and execute its delivery
• Ensure projects are completed on time and according to our quality standards
• Facilitates communication upward around architecture, design, and implementation objectives
• Proven experience in leading software development teams or projects
• Excellent knowledge of software development, data products, QA and test automation, and experience with agile development methodologies
• Demonstrated knowledge of Cloud Architecture, AI Architecture, Massive Parallel Processing (MPP) compute frameworks for Data+AI platforms, and Security,
• Good understanding of Incident Management, Configuration Management, Operational efficiency and Customer Escalation Management preferred. Can manage the balance of delivering on our roadmap commitments while dealing with interruptions and client escalations
• Good experience with open source
• Coach and mentor software developers, develop staff skills, provide continuous feedback (i.e. one on ones) and are responsible for annual reviews. 
• Has relentlessly high standards (is never satisfied with the status quo)
• Innovation and outside the box thinking
• Has passion and conviction and the innate ability to inspire passion in others
• Responsible for protecting, securing, and proper handling of all confidential data held by Abacus to ensure against unauthorized access, improper transmission, and/or unapproved disclosure of information that could result in harm to Abacus or our clients.

What you bring to the team:

• Minimum of 5 years of software development experience using cloud services in production environment (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc) 
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with Data Lakehouse, ideally Databricks.  SQL and Python query experience
• Experience building production solutions on top of data systems at scale
• Experience working with FHIR standards and FHIR databases preferred
• Ability to drive end-to-end development, from research and prototyping to deployment and monitoring
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a passion for improving UI/UX-driven user experiences
• Strong coding and software engineering skills, and familiarity with software engineering principles around testing, debugging, code reviews and deployment
• Possesses a level of breadth and depth of software and UI/UX development experience that allows for influence and competence in technical discussions with internal and external stakeholders
• Solid understanding of roles adjacent to the software development (product management, project management, client delivery, operations etc.). Ability to adapt to these roles as defined at Abacus and work with others in these roles
• Proven record of success of driving projects towards delivering production grade systems supporting customers
• Nice to have experience with, but not required: Snowflake, FHIR, Healthcare Data exposure

Compensation: Compensation for this role is based on experience, skills, and location, and includes base salary plus eligibility for performance bonuses and equity grants.

What you’ll get in return:

• Unlimited paid time off – recharge when you need it
• Work from anywhere – flexibility to fit your life
• Comprehensive health coverage – multiple plan options to choose from
• Equity for every employee – share in our success
• Growth-focused environment – your development matters here
• Home office setup allowance – one-time support to get you started
• Monthly cell phone allowance – stay connected with ease#LI-MS1