Engineering Manager, Data Platform

$162,000 - $198,000/Yr

Nuna

Full-time - Manager

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

At Nuna, our mission is to make high-quality healthcare affordable and accessible for everyone. We are dedicated to tackling one of our nation's biggest problems with ingenuity, creativity, and a keen moral compass. Nuna is committed to simple principles: a rigorous understanding of data, modern technology, and most importantly, compassion and care for our fellow human. We want to know what really works, what doesn't—and why. Nuna is building a data platform and UI application to empower value-based care payment models which serve to help save the healthcare system from financial ruin. We're looking for a leader who can guide the team through the evolution of technology and development practices to support our new platform. You'll oversee skilled engineers and partner with a variety of cross-functional stakeholders to deliver systems that can support extremely nuanced healthcare data and analytics. You will rally the team around the future vision, coordinate the execution toward it, and drive new and improved processes in order to scale the business at Nuna.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers to accelerate the growth of Nuna through the creation of our greenfield next generation data platform tooling and applications
• Partner with product, healthcare experts, analysts, and other engineers to build a high-quality data platform that enables complex healthcare data analytics
• Design and architect a scalable, well-monitored, and performant platform
• Continue to promote growth in operational excellence and maturity
• Own a piece of Nuna's overall engineering processes and drive excellence across all of engineering

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience as a people manager
• Strong technical skills with cloud technologies, data pipeline orchestration, data storage and retrieval, API development, and distributed systems
• An understanding of managing systems with complex compliance, privacy, security and performance needs
• Technical leadership and interpersonal skills to motivate engineers and cross functional teams in a startup environment
• Ability to break down problems and generate shared understanding across technical and non-technical audiences
• A passion for working on difficult problems that require meaningful cross-functional collaboration to deliver results

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with AWS, Spark, Airflow, Kotlin, Postgres, and Python
• Experience building 3rd party facing APIs, such as partner integrations or other external APIs
• An understanding and appreciation for the complexity of working with sensitive healthcare data

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan