Base Salary
$150k - $214k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define integration patterns including outbox, saga, CDC, event-carried state transfer, dual-write mitigation, and choreography versus orchestration.
- Guide service boundaries, shared reference-data handling, and the prevention of shared-database coupling.
- Own messaging and eventing standards covering topics, queues, schemas, partitioning, retention, consumer groups, dead-letter handling, replay, and monitoring.
- Lead the transition from GHX’s homegrown event bus to a cloud-native messaging platform and establish standards for the resulting architecture.
- Guide streaming versus batch decisions and migration from batch- or file-driven pipelines to event-driven flows where appropriate.
- Establish REST API design and governance standards for resource modeling, versioning, error contracts, pagination, compatibility, deprecation, and contract testing.
- Define safe API transition patterns including versioned routing, canary rollouts, gateway configuration, and rollback practices.
- Guide schema design, data ownership, datastore selection, NoSQL access-pattern design, indexing, migrations, replication, syndication, change streams, materialized views, and read models.
- Run design reviews, workshops, and office hours; create decision records, design guides, and reference implementations.
- Present architectural trade-offs and technical risks to engineering leadership, product teams, and senior stakeholders.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience building distributed systems through hands-on individual-contributor software development.
- Deep experience with event-driven architecture, distributed systems, pub/sub and messaging infrastructure, integration patterns, idempotency, consistency trade-offs, and operational failure handling.
- Hands-on AWS experience with SQS, SNS, EventBridge, DynamoDB, RDS/Aurora, API Gateway, and Lambda.
- Strong relational and NoSQL data architecture experience, including datastore selection, schema and access-pattern design, ORM trade-offs, and performant data access at scale.
- Experience designing REST APIs with versioning, backward compatibility, data contracts, and contract validation in CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience working with application teams during service decomposition and establishing integration and data standards across an engineering organization.
- Strong written and verbal communication across engineering, product, leadership, and business stakeholders.
- Substantial recent use of AI-assisted and agentic development tools, with concrete examples of improved speed or outcomes.
- Preferred: external partner or enterprise-platform integration experience and migration from batch- or file-driven pipelines to event-driven flows.
- Preferred: healthcare or other regulated-industry experience.
- Preferred: Azure PaaS experience with Service Bus, Cosmos DB, and Azure Functions.
- Preferred: infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform or equivalents.
- Preferred: analytics data-layer experience with Snowflake, Redshift, or similar technologies.
- Preferred: data architecture experience for ML/LLM applications, including vector databases, embeddings, and RAG patterns.
- Prior Principal or Staff Engineer experience is preferred.
Benefits
- Health, vision, and dental insurance are provided.
- Accident and life insurance are provided.
- 401(k) matching is offered.
- Paid time off is provided.
- Education reimbursement is offered.
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About GHX
GHX is a software-as-a-service company that’s reducing the cost of doing business in healthcare by automating supply chain processes and improving visibility into the products used in patient care. We’ve built the GHX Global Network, the world’s largest community of healthcare trading partners, connecting supply chain, finance and clinical professionals with their suppliers. Our cloud-based technology makes it easier for customers to drive costs out of the healthcare supply chain. Since 2010, we’ve saved the healthcare industry $5+ billion. Today we’re expanding our solutions to further enhance data management and allow integration of clinical and business systems. The Industry We Serve Our focus is on the healthcare supply chain, through which hospitals and their suppliers buy and deliver the thousands of medical-surgical supplies that clinicians need to effectively care for patients. For most hospitals, supply chain costs are the second largest and fastest growing operational expense, so reining in these costs is imperative. Our Products and Services At the heart of GHX is the GHX Exchange, a platform that connects healthcare providers and suppliers so they can work together electronically. This helps lower costs and simplifies supply chain management by eliminating error-prone, manual order processes. GHX solutions include: • An open and neutral electronic trading exchange • Procurement and accounts payable automation • Content, contract and inventory management • Business intelligence and reporting • Standards enablement and data synchronization