Senior Back-End Engineer: Data

Location: USA

Department: Engineering

Location Type: REMOTE

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

About Helm Health

Role Overview

Responsibilies

• Design and build automated data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes
• Improve data quality, validation, and monitoring across production systems
• Build internal tooling that accelerates engineering workflows and reduces manual data operations
• Work across PostgreSQL and BigQuery to optimize storage, query performance, and data modeling
• Collaborate with engineering teams across the org to understand data needs and build scalable solutions
• Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions
• Contribute to the on-call rotation for data systems
• Support data governance and access control practices to ensure compliance with HIPAA and other regulatory requirements across data systems
• Maintain clear documentation for data pipelines, schemas, and system dependencies to support team knowledge sharing and operational continuity
• Experience with dbt (data build tool) or similar SQL-based transformation frameworks

Requirements

• 5+ years in backend or data engineering
• Strong Python proficiency
• Strong SQL skills, particularly in PostgreSQL and BigQuery
• Experience designing and maintaining automated data pipelines
• Experience with data quality frameworks, validation, and monitoring
• Docker/Kubernetes
• Google Cloud Platform

Preferred Qualifications

• Go proficiency
• Experience with additional data stores at scale (CouchDB, CockroachDB, or similar)
• Health insurance or claims processing experience
• Terraform/Terraform Cloud
• Incident management and response experience
• Start-up experience

Characteristics

• Self-directed and comfortable working across systems to find and fix data problems
• Mission-driven — motivated by making healthcare simpler and more transparent
• Willing to ask questions and admit what you don't know
• Systems thinker — you see how data flows through an organization and instinctively look for ways to make it better

Internal Tools/Technology

• Cursor / Linear / GitHub / Notion / Whimsical
• Slack / Google Workspace / Zoom
• incident.io / Sentry
• Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini — we are an AI-forward engineering team
• macOS / Linux

Compensation

Benefits/Offerings

• Base salary + bonus + equity
• Unlimited PTO (mandatory 12 days)
• Computer + home office stipend
• 401(k) + matching
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Autonomy and tons of room for career growth

Occasional Travel