Staff Data Platform Engineer, Health Plan Data

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $200k - $233k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🚰 Data Engineer

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Helm Health

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2023

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

Healthcare Insurance • SaaS • B2B

Helm Health is a SaaS platform that partners with TPAs and health insurers/carriers to power “Dynamic Copay” health-plan products. The platform uses upfront, guaranteed prices, granular cost and quality data, smart claim bundling, and an intuitive provider search to drive member engagement, enable value-driven benefit design, and reduce plan costs (the company reports 74% of care is shopped through the platform and ~15% plan savings). Helm enables moving beyond traditional deductible-centric plans by creating simple, guaranteed prices for members while preserving provider fee-for-service reimbursement.

📋 Description

• Define and drive the target architecture for data ingestion, conformance, storage, and serving across provider network, eligibility, claims, and plan design data • Establish patterns for data contracts, build once and promote, versioned configuration, and traceable lineage • Lead technical design for provider network data, eligibility and enrollment, claims processing, and plan design logic • Build reliable, observable, audit-ready systems with data quality and provenance in a HIPAA-regulated environment • Develop multi-tenant data services and shared platform capabilities to scale onboarding across payors • Partner with product and engineering leadership to create sequenced, shippable plans and deliver platform reliability, data correctness, and delivery outcomes • Lead design reviews and RFCs, mentor senior engineers, and set technical standards • Apply AI tools to code generation, testing, data quality checks, and documentation where appropriate

🎯 Requirements

• Staff-level experience (10+ years) designing and building data platforms and distributed systems at scale, with a record of technical leadership across teams • Expertise in healthcare data: X12 EDI (834, 837, 835), eligibility, claims, provider data, and/or FHIR • Comfort working with PHI under strict data privacy controls • Experience with batch and streaming pipelines, data modeling for analytical and operational serving, data quality and testing discipline, lineage and observability • Fluency with a modern cloud data stack; GCP preferred, including BigQuery, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Storage • Experience with Postgres, Python, Go, orchestration, and infrastructure as code • Experience designing, building, and running APIs and distributed services in production • Experience owning SLOs and on-call • Experience owning cross-cutting platform decisions, writing design documents, and shipping results • Practical, daily experience using AI tools and coding agents, with clear opinions about where they help • Precise writing, async-first habits, and ability to explain complex systems to engineers, product partners, and executives • Nice to have: health plan or payor-side experience; search and relevance systems; gRPC API and SDK design; Dagster or Airflow; dbt or Dataform; enterprise or regulated-industry audit experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Base salary + bonus + equity • Unlimited PTO (mandatory 12 days) • Computer + home office stipend • 401(k) + matching • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Autonomy and tons of room for career growth • Quarterly company meetings

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