Sr. Software Engineer - Search & Insights

Team: IT

Location: India

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities

• Own the full lifecycle of platform features, from problem definition and schema modeling through implementation, versioned rollout, maintenance, and deprecation planning.

• Drive the evolution of search and knowledge graph platforms by reducing redundancy, optimizing payloads, improving usability, and supporting scalable customer-facing experiences.

• Translate business and product needs into clear technical specifications, well-scoped development tasks, and maintainable engineering solutions.

• Remain hands-on in the codebase while providing technical direction and making architecture decisions for critical platform initiatives.

• Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines and transformation workflows that support search and knowledge graph capabilities.

• Define scalable integration patterns for internal and external data exchange and customer-facing data delivery.

• Drive improvements in system performance, scalability, reliability, and resilience as data volumes and product complexity increase.

• Lead troubleshooting of complex system and data issues while establishing strong practices for observability, testing, reliability, and data quality.

• Ensure data security, integrity, and appropriate compliance with governance and regulatory requirements.

• Author technical design documentation and align stakeholders around architecture, implementation, and delivery decisions.

• Mentor engineers, promote strong engineering standards, and contribute to continuous improvement across the team.

• Use AI-assisted development tools and practices, such as Claude and GitHub Copilot, to improve engineering productivity and output quality.

Requirements

• Strong software development skills in Python or Node.js, with experience building high-availability search and data platforms.

• Proven experience designing, developing, and operating data systems and pipelines at scale.

• Deep experience designing and evolving Elasticsearch-based search platforms and knowledge graph systems.

• Experience designing external-facing platforms, including API versioning, pagination, integration patterns, and deprecation strategies.

• Familiarity with data orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow.

• Experience with containerization and infrastructure technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and/or Terraform.

• Experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL.

• Proficiency with Git, Jira, and CI/CD platforms such as CircleCI.

• Strong understanding of distributed systems, data engineering, search architecture, and scalable platform design.

• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills, with the ability to diagnose complex system and data issues.

• Ability to write clean, maintainable, scalable code and establish high engineering-quality standards.

• Experience creating technical design documents and influencing architecture decisions across teams.

• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with engineering, product, and customer-facing teams.

• Comfortable taking ownership in ambiguous environments and managing initiatives from concept through production and iteration.

• Experience with healthcare data domains, ETL, search platform design, or customer-facing data delivery systems is a plus.

• Experience with AI-assisted engineering practices is beneficial.

Benefits

• Full suite of health insurance options.

• Generous paid time off.

• Pre-planned company-wide wellness holidays.

• Retirement plan options.

• Health and charitable donation stipends.

• Business Resource Groups supporting employee communities and engagement.

• Opportunity to work on innovative healthcare technology and data products.

• Exposure to leading organizations across the biotech and life sciences ecosystem.

• Remote working opportunity in India.

• Opportunity to contribute to technology designed to improve healthcare access, insights, and outcomes globally.