Staff Software Engineer
Iterative Health4 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $325k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the technical architecture and build foundational abstractions and interfaces for core systems.
- Build reliable integrations with external clinical data systems, including EHRs, CTMS, eSource, and laboratories.
- Develop and evolve infrastructure for model training and predictive capabilities, including ingestion, feature engineering, and serving.
- Prototype quickly to test and derisk ideas.
- Evaluate technologies, make build-versus-buy decisions, select vendors, and shape long-term infrastructure strategy.
- Make technical tradeoffs between speed, durability, generality, and delivery.
- Partner with product, clinical operations, and data science teams to solve business-relevant problems.
- Help shape engineering culture, technical decision-making, and engineering rigor through code reviews and architecture guidance.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience designing and building systems.
- Experience with healthcare data systems such as HL7, FHIR, and EHR/EMR integrations, or other highly regulated data environments.
- 2+ years of experience working in a high-growth startup environment.
- Deep experience integrating unreliable or heterogeneous external data sources.
- Experience using AI tooling and frameworks in an engineering workflow.
- Experience building production data pipelines and infrastructure for analytical or ML workloads.
- Strong backend experience with Python, SQL, and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience building systems from early stages and making foundational technical decisions.
- Experience with ML training infrastructure or feature platforms is preferred.
- Familiarity with clinical operations, systems, or life sciences data is preferred.
- Experience incorporating SOC 2, HIPAA, or similar compliance requirements into engineering practice is preferred.
- Track record of building systems that operate correctly under real-world operational constraints, scale, and complexity is preferred.
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About Iterative Health
Iterative Health is a healthcare technology and services company powering the acceleration of clinical research to transform patient outcomes. By combining deep expertise in clinical trials with cutting-edge AI, we empower research teams and study sponsors to expand and expedite access to novel therapeutics for patients in need. The company has headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York, New York. For more information, visit www.iterative.health