Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform

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 Senior 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 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, a growing base of data-savvy customers using data to improve patient care, and an evolving regulatory landscape in data privacy. On the Costco team, you will work with microservices in Go, streaming data pipelines in AWS, and state-of-the-art data technologies including Iceberg, 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 APIs
• Collaborate with team members and across Engineering to iteratively prototype and develop new functionality
• Provide technical leadership, contributing to the architecture and design of the team’s systems
• Coach others to become better engineers
• Partner with product managers and other Zusers

You're a good fit because you

• Learn fast and enjoy open-ended technical challenges
• Have experience with operationally stable and cost efficient data services
• Enjoy owning your work and seeing it deploy safely in production
• Have 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 healthcare
• Thrive amid the changing landscape of a growing and evolving startup
• Enjoy collaboration and solving unique problems

It would be awesome if you were

• Experienced at working with petabyte-scale data
• Experienced with AuthN/AuthZ and fine-grained access control
• Familiar with multiple languages including either Go or Python
• Experienced in working with healthcare data and APIs
• Familiar with the FHIR and/or TEFCA standards

$140,000 - $170,000 a year

Zus Health is headquartered in Boston, MA, with an office available for employees to use as their schedules allow. We embrace a remote-first work philosophy, enabling team members across the U.S. to work from wherever they’re most productive. While most day-to-day work can be performed remotely, we value periodic in-person collaboration—such as whiteboard sessions, team gatherings, and company-wide retreats in Boston or other off-site locations. For Engineering roles, we expect occasional travel for in-person meetings and events a few times per year.

We 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.