Who we are
Zus is a shared health data platform designed to accelerate healthcare data interoperability by providing easy-to-use patient data via API, embedded components, and direct EHR integrations. Founded in 2021 by Jonathan Bush, co-founder and former CEO of athenahealth, Zus partners with HIEs and other data networks to aggregate patient clinical history and then translates that history into user-friendly information at the point of care. Zus's mission is to catalyze healthcare's greatest inventors by maximizing the value of patient insights - so that they can build up, not around.
What we're looking for
We’re looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join the “Costco” team at Zus, which builds services for managing our rapidly growing bulk data offerings while adhering to complex healthcare access control requirements.
The ideal candidate will be excited to take on the challenge of processing, storing and delivering the entire health records of millions of patients, adopting tools to handle growing scale, and ensuring high data quality and freshness. You are creative, innovative and love to run experiments to explore the paths to evolve and develop our platform as we scale.
As As part of the core Zus platform, the Costco team has needed to rapidly innovate to stay ahead of data volumes that grow at 10x per year and a growing base of data-savvy customers using data to improve patient care. They are also contending with an evolving regulatory landscape in data privacy and security.
On the Costco team, you will work with microservices in Go, streaming data pipelines in AWS, and state-of-the-art data technologies including Apache Iceberg, Apache Spark, Snowflake, and dbt. Expect to learn a lot and be put on mission-critical projects with direct customer impact.
As part of our team, you will Build and operate data services driving our applications and APIsCollaborate with team members and across Engineering to iteratively prototype and develop new functionalityPartner with product managers and other ZusersYou're a good fit because youLearn fast and enjoy open-ended technical challengesHave experience with operationally stable, scalable, and cost efficient data servicesEnjoy owning your work and seeing it deploy safely in productionAre experienced using Cloud Data Warehouses such as Snowflake, Big Query, Redshift or DatabricksHave experience with at least one of the following: deployment technologies (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.), cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)Are excited to ~ finally! ~ enable a true digital revolution in healthcareThrive amid the changing landscape of a growing and evolving startupEnjoy collaboration and solving unique problemsIt would be awesome if you wereExperienced at working with petabyte-scale dataExperienced with Apache Iceberg, Apache Spark, and other large-scale data technologiesExperienced with AuthN/AuthZ and fine-grained access controlFamiliar with multiple languages including either Go or PythonExperienced in working with healthcare data and APIsFamiliar with the FHIR and/or TEFCA standardsWe will offer you…
• Competitive compensation that reflects the value you bring to the team a combination of cash and equity
• Robust benefits that include health insurance, wellness benefits, 401k with a match, unlimited PTO
• Opportunity to work alongside a passionate team that is determined to help change the world (and have fun doing it)
Please Note: Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don’t apply unless they meet 100% of the job criteria. While we have worked to consolidate the minimum qualifications for each role, we aren’t looking for someone who checks each box on a page; we’re looking for active learners and people who care about disrupting the current healthcare system with their unique experiences.
We do not conduct interviews by text nor will we send you a job offer unless you've interviewed with multiple people, including the Director of People & Talent, over video interviews. Job scams do exist so please be careful with your personal information.
