Senior/Staff/Principal Backend Engineer (Platform & Data Ingestion)

Your Responsibilities

• You will report directly to the Senior Director of Engineering and work cross-functionally within Verana Health’s Oncology Platform, bridging our Core Engineering and Data Ingestion teams

• In this role, you will have end-to-end, hands-on ownership of the high-throughput systems that transform complex, unstructured clinical text into scalable oncology data models

• This position sits at a critical technical junction, connecting the frontline of Verana’s data ingestion engine with our foundational platform architecture

• Within the Oncology Platform, your work directly impacts patient care by dictating how fast and how cleanly raw medical documentation is unlocked and structured to support life-saving research and improving clinical outcomes

• By scaling OCR pipelines to extract clinical text and optimizing OpenSearch to make data instantly accessible, you will directly expand our core oncology data model

• We also encourage thoughtful use of modern AI coding assistants and agentic tools, letting you spend less time on repetitive or basic tasks and more time building out the core architecture

• Verana Health is looking for a driven Senior Backend Engineer who thrives on high-volume data processing, search optimization, and modern software architecture

• Build and optimize resilient data ingestion pipelines that process high volume streams of clinical data and integrate them into our core oncology platform architecture

• Own the indexing, querying, and performance tuning of our OpenSearch cluster to ensure fast text and data discovery across our oncology data layers

• Implement and refine complex OCR (Optical Character Recognition) processing workflows to transform raw, unstructured patient timelines into clean, structured data

• Expand our core oncology data model by maintaining and enhancing microservices that run automated, medically defined quality checks

• Use AI tools to automate routine setup and boilerplate, keeping your day-to-day focus on building robust, high-impact backend systems

• Design and implement impactful ETL pipelines and high-performance RESTful APIs/microservices

• Participate in thorough code and design reviews, and guide technical decisions for system components while mentoring peer engineers

• Lead the charge in investigating data and quality issues, getting into the weeds of the code to understand why things don’t work as expected, and then patching the problem

Benefits

• • Collaboration: Hybrid work environment with remote employees and offices in San Francisco, New York, and Knoxville
• • Wellness Programs: Access to industry-leading apps in mental health, physical health, and family planning
• • Financial Health: 401(k) plan, financial planning, and life insurance benefits
• • Time Off: Flexible Time Off, Volunteer Time Off, Parental Time Off, Sick Time, and more
• • Recognition: Celebrating Anniversaries, Birthdays, Manager to Employee Recognition, Peer to Peer Recognition
• • Healthcare: Multiple affordable options for health, dental, and vision insurance (including Telehealth)