About Flume Health
Flume Health is a software company that connects the fragmented healthcare data ecosystem for more efficient health plan administration. As a single cloud-native integration platform Flumes Relay platform allows companies to easily connect various systems and vendors for efficient data exchange thats increasingly demanded of the modern health plan. Payers third-party administrators prescription benefits managers and health solutions are provided the simplicity speed and security they need to automate data integration and movement between relevant stakeholders. Relay supports multiple data transmission protocols data types and file types. By streamlining data flows between payers and solutions a world of opportunity exists to improve access to healthcare.
The Role:
As a Software Engineer focusing on backend systems at Flume Health you will design and build robust backend solutions that handle complex data integrations and transaction processing. Leveraging your engineering skills youll develop scalable and high-performance services for managing and transforming healthcare this role youll be responsible for maintaining and enhancing the core systems that power our platform ensuring compliance in a data-intensive environment while streamlining workflows for greater efficiency and reliability.
What Youll Do:
- Build robust backend services focused on transaction processing data accessibility and integrations.
- Design and implement APIs (e.g. RESTful) that enable seamless interactions across various applications and services.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product DevOps Data Engineering) to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Enhance system performance by fine-tuning database queries optimizing application logic and employing caching strategies.
- Enforce best practices around code quality testing and deployment to maintain high reliability.
- Maintain compliance standards (HIPAA etc.) and implement security measures when handling sensitive healthcare data.
What Youll Need:
- 3 years of backend development experience with experience on teams building scalable and distributed systems.
- Very proficient in Go (Golang) or Python (heavy backend) including designing developing and testing backend services.
- Expertise in the full software development lifecycle from scoping and planning to delivery and iteration
- Strong command of software system design including scalability third party integrations and API design.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS Google Cloud) and container environments (Kubernetes Docker).
- Understanding of SQL and relational database concepts (e.g. PostgreSQL).
- Proven effectiveness at contributing to and executing as part of a team
- Strong communication skills to collaborate across teams and clarify technical challenges.
- A problem-solving mindsetcomfortable in ambiguous or evolving technical landscapes.
Nice to Have:
- Proficiency in Python for use in data analysis (Pandas or Polars).
- Experience with modern data pipelines or distributed data processing systems (e.g. Apache Spark Databricks Snowflake Google Cloud Dataproc).
- Exposure to healthcare data and or healthcare data standards (payments clinical etc enrollment)
- Prior experience in building integration tools that simplify complex data flows.
Technologies We Use:
- Languages: Go Python SQL
- Cloud: Google Cloud Kubernetes Docker AWS Azure
- Databases & APIs: PostgreSQL RESTful API
Salary Range:$125k - $160k
Flumes Perks & Benefits
- Flexible PTO - youre going to be working hard so enjoy time off
- A robust stock option plan to give our employees a direct stake in Flumes success
- WFH stipend - weve always been remote first
- Competitive compensation and 401k with a 4% match
- Comprehensive health coverage (medical dental vision)