About Karoo Health
Cardiovascular care is often the #1 cost for health plans and employers, with the current fee for service model incentivizing providers to maximize volume and throughput at the expense of clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction. Karoo’s mission is to improve the lives of every cardiac patient in America by transforming the current care model to improve patient outcomes at significantly lower cost. Karoo deploys a value-based approach which combines a blend of traditional, guideline-based medicine and state of the art digital tools to accomplish this important mission by enabling the conversion to, and success in, value-based care arrangements for cardiovascular networks, health systems and payers. Karoo is backed by leading venture capitalists, including First Trust Capital Partners and BIP Ventures, and has near and medium-term plans for further rounds.
Senior Data Engineer
Job Description
Overview
Location:Pittsburgh preferred, or remote, U.S.-based
Type:Full-time technical role
An Industry Defining Company
Karoo is a venture-backed startup, prior to Series A, on a mission to transform cardiovascular care. Our platform is designed to empower large provider groups and health systems to succeed in value-based care contracts with payers by improving patient outcomes and reducing cost of care through better coordination, analytics, and disease management. While our initial focus is cardiology, we are building a scalable operating system for managing complex conditions across the healthcare spectrum.
This is a rare opportunity to join a mission-driven founding team at a pivotal stage and help define the future of healthcare technology, with the power to improve the lives of patients with cardiovascular disease, the number one cause of death in America today.
The Role
Karoo Health is seeking a skilled and dedicated developer to join our Engineering team. As a software engineer at Karoo Health, you show a clear passion for quality and love to bring software to life. You are energized by the idea of building something new and want to work on problems that matter.
In order to do this job well, you must be a curious and eager problem solver with a hunger for building well-designed, high-quality solutions. You have a passion for great work and strive to produce simple solutions to complex problems. Knowing there are always multiple answers to a problem, you know how to engage in a constructive dialogue to find the best path forward.
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What You'll Do
- Design and Architect Data Systems: Lead the design, construction, installation, and optimization of highly reliable, scalable, and secure data architecture.
- Design Core Healthcare Data Models: Own the design and evolution of foundational data models and schemas from the ground up, leveraging industry standards such as TUVA, OMOP and FHIR to translate clinical, operational, product, and reporting needs into scalable table structures, entities, and relationships.
- Develop Data Pipelines: Build and maintain complex, production-grade data pipelines that ingest, process, enrich and normalize large volumes of healthcare data ensuring consistency, usability, and data integrity across downstr