Senior Software Engineer, Academics

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Senior Software Engineer Academics

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New York NY USA
Hybrid
152K-209K Annually
Senior level
Healthtech • Software • Biotech • Pharmaceutical
Reimagining the infrastructure of cancer care.
The Role
Lead the development and maintenance of integrations with health partners manage data sources and enhance oncology infrastructure ensuring operational excellence and collaboration across teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
Reimagine the infrastructure of cancer care within a community that values integrity inspires growth and is uniquely positioned to create a more modern connected oncology ecosystem.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us accomplish our mission to improve and extend lives by learning from the experience of every person with cancer. Are you ready to be the next changemaker in cancer care?
What You'll Do
We're looking for a technical lead to develop and maintain integrations with Academic and Health System Partners. This role is responsible for building maintaining and evolving infrastructure that forms the backbone of Academics Integrations at Flatiron including management of structured and unstructured data sources. This role will collaborate with other Flatiron employees across our UK Germany and Japan offices and will work day-to-day with oncologists clinicians product leaders quantitative scientists and customers to understand their challenges and how technology can help solve them. In addition you will:
  • Provide technical leadership including shaping the direction of roadmaps and technology development.
  • Help build our scaling strategy for Academics and Health Systems partnerships
  • Devise creative solutions for technical and business challenges
  • Rapidly iterate on products while maintaining engineering practices that ensure quality and security
  • Raise the bar for developer experience and operational excellence by establishing and upholding rigorous operational and observability frameworks in service of robust high throughput pipelines
  • Promote technical excellence and elegant infrastructure design with teammates and customers
  • Work with complex data pipelines using a variety of data processing tools
  • Bring or develop a deep knowledge of healthcare in the US including data sources security requirements and emerging trends

Who You Are
You're a kind passionate and collaborative problem-solver who values the opportunity to think beyond the way things are. You're excited by the prospect of working on difficult and meaningful problems each day. You seek and give candid feedback and value the chance to make an important impact on cancer patients and society.
  • You're an experienced software engineer with a minimum of 6 years of relevant professional experience
  • You are excited to work in a collaborative cross-functional environment think creatively and be scrappy to get the job done
  • You have a nose for value and empathy for your customers
  • You have experience with agile development environments using programming languages like Python C++ SQL Java and R but are also language agnostic and willing to pick up new programming languages as needed
  • You have experience working with cloud platforms like AWS data warehouse solutions like Snowflake and ETL frameworks like DBT and Databricks
  • You believe in using boring technology (described in this blog post). You're willing to apply the right tools for the job
  • You are excited about working in a passionate fast-paced technology-driven culture
  • You can collaborate and easily explain technical terms to a non-technical highly sophisticated audience
  • You are excited to talk to customers and help design collaboration models that scale across industries
  • You are comfortable with ambiguity and always willing to teach and learn

Extra credit
  • You have experience working in hospitals or Academic Medical Centers in the US
  • You hold a bachelors masters and/or Ph.D. in computer science or a related field
  • You have experience in machine learning data engineering infrastructure devops or security engineering
  • You have 1-2 years managing engineers or an interest in managing engineers
  • You have experience developing integrations with external stakeholders and data sources
  • You are comfortable in or willing to go deep into the data engineering toolbox with tools such as Databricks DBT and Prefect.
  • You have worked in the health data space and are comfortable collaborating with scientific stakeholders (e.g. biostatisticians clinicians researchers)

Where You'll Work
In this hybrid role you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and 3 office days set by you and your team. For more information on our approach to hybrid work please visit the how we work website.
Life at Flatiron
At Flatiron Health we offer a full range of benefits to support you and your loved ones so you can focus your working hours on improving cancer care and accelerating cancer research and your non-working hours on everything else life has to offer:
  • Work/life autonomy via flexible work hours and flexible paid time off
  • Comprehensive compensation package
  • 401(k) contribution to help you reach your retirement planning goals
  • Financial health resources including 1:1 financial advice
  • Mental well-being tools and services
  • Parental benefits and policies including family-building care and generous leave
  • Path to parenthood programs supporting fertility adoption and surrogacy
  • Travel support for safe healthcare services

In addition to our robust benefit offerings visit our Life at Flatiron page to learn how we support continuous learning and celebrate inclusion and belonging in the workplace.
Job Compensation Range
Salary Range: $152000.00 - $209000.00
Preferred Primary Location: NY office
The annual pay range reflected above for this position is based on the preferred primary location of the role which is listed in the job description. Salary ranges for other locations vary from the range reflected above. Base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. An annual bonus and equity may be provided as part of the compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered.

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The Company
HQ: New York NY
2500 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Flatiron Health is a healthtech company dedicated to helping cancer centers thrive and deliver better care for patients today and tomorrow. Through clinical and data science we translate patient experiences into real-world evidence to improve treatment inform policy and advance research. Cancer is smart. Together we can be smarter. Flatiron Health is an independent affiliate of the Roche Group.

Why Work With Us

Reimagine the infrastructure of cancer care within a technology and science community that values integrity inspires growth and is uniquely positioned to create a more modern connected oncology ecosystem.

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05/03/2026

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