Senior Data Engineer

Hello there, I’m Michael and I joined MedMe this year as the Director of Engineering! I am no stranger to scaling healthcare technology companies and I am thrilled about leading and growing our dynamic, impact-driven team. As an engineer at heart, I thrive on building modern cloud-based applications that help make healthcare better for everyone. We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our growing team, where you will get the opportunity to build a secure, reliable data pipeline for both internal and external customers. Our vision and product at MedMe has already disrupted the legacy platforms in pharmacy care delivery and we would love you to join us in further excelling our impact within our healthcare system.

Co-founders Nick, Rui, and Purya built MedMe together after identifying the biggest problem to be existing pharmacy software built 20 years ago with the primary purpose to sell drugs. Purya was a health data scientist for the government, Nick was a product engineer for the Tesla Roadster, and Rui is a Pharmacist. Our team is equally passionate about using pharmacists to provide more services for patients in the community.

We are building software for an industry that has relied on paper and pen for a long time. This is why crafting, building, and constantly improving the end-to-end customer experience is an essential part of our company. It’s crucial that we listen deeply to the diverse needs of our pharmacies - located anywhere from dense urban jungles to northern remote communities - to design and build for their needs to ultimately provide more proactive and sustainable care for the patients in their communities.

Our mission & vision Having raised $3.7M USD from M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund) and leading Canadian VCs, our mission is to build an all-in-one cloud-based platform that empowers pharmacists to schedule, document, and manage clinical services at scale. Our clients include the 2 largest pharmacy chains in Canada, servicing 3500+ pharmacies across 10 provinces and touching millions of patients. Our ultimate vision is to transform pharmacies from today’s dispensing locations to tomorrow's health hubs. 💡

The opportunity

• Building a new data warehouse and data marts on AWS using tools like Kinesis, Data Glue, and other tooling
• Part of this role will be selecting what technologies and tools we will use going forward!
• Augmenting our SDLC to incorporate our data pipeline as a ‘first class’ citizen
• Working with Product to align data structures to reporting needs
• Collaborating on the key technology decisions to shape the architecture and product roadmap
• Documenting our data model and making it presentable for our enterprise customers to ingest and operate against
• Sharing your depth and breadth of knowledge through peer mentorship
• Taking an active role in developing our ETL and streaming processes through code reviews, sprint planning, and retrospectives
• Building CI/CD Pipelines and automating workflows using Github
• Work directly with enterprise customers and health systems to create operational data marts
• Working with code and project management tools such as JIRA/Notion/GitHub
• Keeping up to date with industry best practices for HIPAA / SOC2 environment
• Work with our product teams to find gaps in data that we should fill on our product roadmap
• Deploy a repeatable AWS architecture using Infrastructure as Code (AWS CDK)

The tech stack:

• We currently have a classic batch process that we want to replace, we are looking to incorporate better solutions such as: AWS Glue, Kinesis, Kinesis Data Analytics, Python 3+, Java Postgres, DynamoDB, Redshift
• AWS infrastructure: Terraform or AWS CDK (preferred)
• GitHub and GitHub actions to automate daily tasks
• Familiarity with S3, Cognito, Athena, Cloudwatch is a plus
• Slack & Giphy & Tenor (Our gif game is strong)

As an example, here are some projects you could expect to work on:

• Unifying our multi-tenant database into a single source of truth for operational data for MedMe
• Creating an ideal schema and CDC process for third parties to ingest millions of changes per day at peak times
• Create an event-based model to push updates to third parties, including EMRs and other data warehouses
• Refactoring existing schemas to improve performance and reusability
• Create a robust living document to define our data’s interface and definition to external customers and Data Analytics staff
• Working with healthcare IoT manufacturers to ingest data at scale

Don’t sweat it if you don’t have everything listed above. We believe in growth and curiosity. If you have some of these qualities and are excited about this opportunity, then we want to hear from you!

How We Hire MedMe is committed to a fair and equitable hiring process for all candidates. To ensure that each candidate’s journey is consistent, and the selection process is unbiased, the team at MedMe will not be responding to any personal messages regarding this role or other opportunities.

The Interview Process Round 1: Phone Screen with a MedMe Team Member Round 2: Virtual 30-minute technical interview with Michael, Director of Engineering Round 3: Virtual 60-minute coding challenge + review with Michael, Director of Engineering Round 4: Virtual 60-minute with Rui, Nick, and Purya, the Co-Founders of MedMe Round 5: Conduct References And, the offer!

Following the advice of Canadian health authorities, to mitigate the risk of potential spread of COVID-19 and support social distancing, all recruiting activities including interviews and new hire on-boarding will be conducted virtually.

Annual Salary ranges from $130,000 CAD to $150,000 CAD

Perks at MedMe

• Equity from 0.01%-0.1%, depending on experience and impact
• Flexible health benefit plan - Full dental, vision, physical & mental health plus health spending account
• Performance development support (yearly budget for courses & conferences)
• Quarterly on-site team retreats!

Location

• Based in Toronto, Canada, however, we are a fully remote team.

MedMe is a proud equal opportunity workplace that is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We’re looking for motivated and compassionate people who can execute from the ground up and support the work that MedMe believes in.

MedMe is committed to developing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. Should you require any accommodation, please inform us and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs. For any accessibility-related assistance, requests for information in accessible alternative formats or to report any accessibility problems, please share in your application.