Senior Data Engineer (m/f/d) Digital Health

About this position

To join our Product Development Team, we are looking for a Data Engineer (m/f/d) to start as soon as possible.

The Product Development Team

At BetterDoc, we have developed and now enhance a system to support the assignment of patients to physicians who can best treat them - depending on the patient's condition, we find the best doctor to treat him or her. Our next big steps are automation of the patient-physician matching process and the equipment and operation of the data science platform.

We value curiosity and learning - to support this, we offer dedicated time for personal development and growth.

We are proud to trust our people instead of controlling them. Our team organises itself and reflects on how to improve our working mode.

We depend on self-motivation. We offer a lot and count on you to grab what you need.

Your mission

You take responsibility in changing the way healthcare works in Europe and beyond. With your work you help 1 Mio people in 2028 to get the best possible treatment at the right doctors or clinics. For achieving this you leverage technology for our employees and customers, so they apply their expertise more effectively and efficiently.

• Enable Data Analysts and Data Scientists to efficiently leverage our data for their work
• Bring together structured and unstructured data from various sources (e.g. Pipedrive, Ad-networks, analytics tools, transactional systems, logs or special datasources) into dedicated places in our cloud infrastructure, so we can easily leverage it for our needs
• Design, implement and operate standards and platforms that are best fit for BetterDoc
• Enforce quality by establishing strict criteria and practices for ingestion of data
• Work closely with product teams and enable decentralised processing and use of data
• Evolve our data technology stack from mainly Postgres RDS and to a modern performant data infrastructure
• Ensure secure and compliant operation in collaboration with our architects and devops engineers
• In collaboration with our data analytics team operate a BI Tool for stakeholders so they get the latest insights on their KPIs and are alerted on unusual deviations
• In collaboration with our DevOps engineer you monitor and improve the operations of our transactional databases, e.g. data migration, performance tuning

Your profile

• Bachelor s degree in business informatics or natural science or similar qualification
• Hands on experience managing data workflows and transformations based on Airflow, DBT, Astronomer or similar
• Experience maintaining and operating relational databases like Postgres and OLAP solutions like Snowflake or similar
• Expert knowledge of SQL
• Good understanding of BI Solutions and Web Analytics tools
• Experience in leveraging events from transactional systems through queues and streams
• Hands-on experience with data integration tools like Fivetran or AWS DMS
• Object oriented python programming is a strong plus
• Expert knowledge in the areas of data modelling and data processes
• Experienced using infrastructure as code approaches like terraform

At BetterDoc, you will work to deliver value, not to fulfil a spec. We value curiosity, the will to learn and the drive to deliver great software. We look for people that want to see their influence on what was created and who are proud of their craft. Your place of work is in or within reasonable distance of Cologne to allow you to work closely with our management team even if most of the work is remote.

Please be aware that if you do not live in a country belonging to the European Union or you are not planning to move to the EU, we cannot follow up on your application.

What BetterDoc offers you:

• An organisation built on trust instead of control
• Dedicated time for personal development and growth
• Limited travel, ready for remote work, flexible working hours
• An interesting and challenging job with excellent development prospects and creative possibilities and the opportunity to raise the "quality in health" for millions of people
• Opportunity to participate in the long term incentive programme
• Job ticket for local transportation if you are based in Cologne
• International working atmosphere in a motivated and high-calibre team
• State of the art hardware
• Membership in our patient s club (so that you can use our service!)