Senior Data Platform Engineer

At House Rx, we're passionate about making specialty medications more accessible and affordable for patients dealing with chronic illnesses like cancer and autoimmune disorders. We do this by empowering clinics with advanced technology and dedicated support from pharmacists and care coordinators, enabling them to directly dispense medications to their patients through medically integrated dispensing.

About the Role

As a Senior Data Platform Engineer, you will be instrumental in architecting, developing, and scaling our data infrastructure. This is an exciting opportunity to join an early-stage team, where you'll have a significant impact on shaping the future direction of our data platform, from initial ingestion to business intelligence.

You'll collaborate closely with our product, engineering, and clinical operations teams to transform complex healthcare data into actionable insights, driving meaningful impact for our patients and clinics. This is a hands-on senior technical role, requiring you to contribute directly to platform development, influence architectural decisions, and take ownership of critical projects.

What You’ll Do

You'll drive technical excellence, contributing to a robust data platform and solidifying our engineering practices. You'll skillfully balance long-term vision with delivering immediate value, collaborating closely with engineering and operations teams to achieve shared goals.

What We're Looking For:

• Experienced Professional: You bring 5+ years of combined experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or software engineering.
• Modern Data Stack Expertise: You have hands-on experience with contemporary data engineering tools such as Airflow, DBT, SQLMesh, Snowflake, MotherDuck, and similar technologies.
• Coding Proficiency: You are skilled in at least one programming language, with a preference for TypeScript or Python.
• Data Fluency: You possess a strong understanding of core data concepts including ELT, data lakes, data warehouses, backfill strategies, and data quality best practices.
• Data Modeling Acumen: You have practical experience with data modeling.
• Strategic Thinker: You're skilled at making well-reasoned engineering tradeoffs, balancing short-term needs with long-term vision.
• Cloud Experience: You have some experience working within a cloud environment (e.g., AWS or Google Cloud).
• Infrastructure as Code: You have exposure to Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) tools like Terraform.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience within a rapidly growing company.
• A track record of building data platforms from the ground up.
• Prior experience in Healthcare.

In particular, we offer:

• Flexible work hours and flexible paid time off
• Generous parental leave
• Comprehensive healthcare, vision and dental benefits
• Competitive salary and equity stake

We’re backed by forward-thinking investors committed to transforming healthcare, including Bessemer Venture Partners, First Round Capital, LRV Health, Khosla Ventures, Maverick Ventures, 1984.vc, and Character.

While a cover letter is optional, a note sharing your enthusiasm for House Rx and this role is highly insightful.

Expected Full-Time Base Salary:  $160,000-$185,000

This range represents the low and high end of the anticipated base salary/wage. The actual base salary/wage will depend on several factors, including experience, knowledge, and skills. Actual compensation packages may include other elements equity, paid time off and benefits.

More About House Rx: Our Team, Work, and Culture

Here's our amazing PDE team that builds healthcare technology that matters:

• Software Engineering: 10 engineers+ from early career to staff/architect level
• Product & Design: 3 product managers, 2 designers
• Infrastructure: 2 IT specialists, 2 security engineers, 3 SREs
• Quality & Support: 3 QA engineers, 2 support specialists

Together, we build and maintain impactful solutions through our pharmacy management system and data insights platform. These tools enable our internal teams, pharmacists, care coordinators, and clinical operations, to streamline medication access, while helping external healthcare providers and clinics deliver better patient care.

💻 Our engineering work presents exciting technical challenges as we balance user-facing features with robust internal systems. We release updates daily, requiring thoughtful prioritization and technical excellence while maintaining high quality. This iterative approach means we're constantly innovating to deliver meaningful improvements to our healthcare platform.

🌎 We're a fully remote team, with our talented people spread across New York, Boston, San Francisco, and throughout the U.S. While we embrace the flexibility of remote work, we're passionate about strengthening connections through our bi-annual retreats, both company-wide and PDE-specific, where we plan, grow, and celebrate our successes together. Local team members enjoy getting together for co-working and social events, creating bonds that go beyond the workplace.

🎉 Our culture brings thoughtfulness to our daily work. You'll find us expressing ourselves through our extensive Slack emoji and GIF collection (seriously, it's impressive!), sharing gratitude circles on birthdays, and having conversations that range from foodie recommendations to discussions about AI tooling, developer experience, and architecture. While we take our mission seriously, we believe enjoying what you do and technical excellence go hand in hand.

We're a fun, thoughtful, supportive, talented, and down-to-earth group focused on doing some of the best work of our lives. At the end of the day, we know software is built by people – and we're committed to taking care of both the people we work with and the patients whose lives we touch through our technology. We’re growing our team. There's no one else in the world like you, and hope you can join us for this ride! 🚀