Finance Data Analyst

Minneapolis, MN - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Role Summary

Senior hands-on **software engineering generalist** contractor to help build and evolve the core platform capabilities of Medica Flow. Medica Flow is fundamentally a **set of distributed systems** and this role is for **strong builders** who design implement and operate reliable scalable systems in distributed environments. The focus is on software systems automation and reliability-not data modeling analytics or BI development. Candidates are expected to write high-quality production code own what they build end-to-end and contribute foundational platform services used across multiple teams.

3. What This Engineer Will Build

Distributed platform services and internal APIs
Infrastructure-backed services that run across multiple environments
Automation frameworks and internal developer tooling
CI/CD pipelines and deployment systems for distributed workloads
Observability monitoring and reliability mechanisms for distributed systems
Reusable software components adopted by multiple engineering teams

4. Distributed Systems Experience (Critical)

Medica Flow operates as a collection of distributed systems. Candidates should have prior experience building and operating distributed systems and be comfortable with the challenges that come with them including: service boundaries latency partial failure resiliency scalability and operational complexity.
Examples of relevant experience include:
Designing and building services that communicate over networks (APIs messaging eventing)
Operating systems with multiple independent components and failure modes
Implementing reliability patterns such as retries timeouts backpressure and graceful degradation
Working with observability tooling to understand and debug distributed behavior in production
Making sound tradeoffs between consistency availability and performance

5. What This Role Is NOT

Not a data engineering role
Not an analytics BI or reporting role
Not focused on SQL modeling dashboards or data pipelines
Not a support-only or ticket-driven role

6. AI-Assisted Engineering Expectations

Medica Flow encourages the responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools as part of a modern software development workflow. Engineers in this role are expected to be comfortable using AI assistance for tasks such as code generation refactoring testing debugging and documentation-while applying strong engineering judgment to ensure all outputs meet Medica standards for security reliability compliance and long-term maintainability.

7. Required Experience & Skills

5 8 years of professional software engineering experience
Strong background as a software engineering generalist and system builder
Hands-on experience designing and building distributed systems
Experience operating production systems in distributed environments
Experience with cloud platforms (Azure strongly preferred)
Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)
CI/CD systems and automated testing
Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (Python Java Go Scala etc.)

8. Reporting & Engagement Model

This role reports **directly to the Director of Enterprise Data Management**. Contractors will work closely with Medica leadership receive direct technical direction and are expected to operate with a high degree of ownership autonomy and accountability.

9. Vendor Screening Notes

Senior-level builders only; strong software and systems fundamentals required
Candidates must demonstrate experience building and operating distributed systems
Data engineering or analytics experience is not required and not a differentiator
Expected hourly rate must be included with each submission

Role Summary Senior hands-on **software engineering generalist** contractor to help build and evolve the core platform capabilities of Medica Flow. Medica Flow is fundamentally a **set of distributed systems** and this role is for **strong builders** who design implement and operate reliable sc...