Data Acquisition, Tech Lead

At Ribbon, we’re building the infrastructure to power billions of healthcare decisions. We work with companies across the entire healthcare ecosystem, partnering with innovators to make care accessible, affordable, and high quality. By transforming the healthcare decision-making process, we can influence a person’s outcomes for the better. 

As we continue to grow and scale our engineering organization, Ribbon is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join us and lead our data acquisition efforts. Ribbon on an ongoing basis collects hundreds of sources through web scraping, and is looking to level up the technology leveraged to do so. We are looking for someone to lead the team on how to overcome the most challenging bot detection issues, explore novel AI technologies, and build systems that will help raise the bar on Ribbons overall data collection efforts. In this moment of scale, we’re excited to bring on a talented backend engineer to build scalable systems that can support our next phase of growth, and is passionate about the value that data aggregation across many sources can bring to people trying to find access to good care. 

Together, we can create a healthier future where people receive exceptional care — and that starts with our data acquisition team. 

What we look for at Ribbon 

• Passion and drive to make navigating healthcare simple by building products that increase access to care and power every healthcare decision to be accessible, affordable and high quality.
• Commitment to Ribbon Health company values, working on an exceptional team, and building an exceptional company.
• Grit, hustle, desire, and a “get-it-done” attitude;  strong comfort with a lean startup environment, where everyone is encouraged to participate in and contribute across all teams.
• Dedication to the creation of a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where teammates are celebrated for their unique perspectives and work together to make navigating healthcare simple.

What we’re looking for in this role

• You are experienced in and passionate about the craft and art of web scraping. You enjoy figuring out how to scrape a challenging source of data, and beating bot detection through creative means.
• You have experience working cross functionally, across multiple engineering teams to drive company wide initiatives.
• You have experience building proven highly scalable systems.
• You are very comfortable working with data. Python experience is a bonus!
• You are able to break down ambiguous challenges and communicate thoughtful solutions to a highly technical engineering team.
• You enjoy working in, and strive to implement mechanisms to drive high velocity, highly functioning engineering teams.
• You care deeply about implementing best practices to establish trust and reliability within our technical stack, because you understand the weight and responsibility of being the data infrastructure for our customers.
• You are comfortable with designing and scaling backend systems that manage data within a core data platform.
• You are not afraid of rolling up your sleeves and working on hard, ambiguous problems.

Your day-to-day

• Work on high impact projects across the organization such as :
• Scale our data extraction infrastructure and build-out our next generation of data pipelines
• Automate repetitive tasks that will allow us to focus on what matters most.
• Build out end to end validation frameworks across our pipelines.
• Scale our indexing solution to make sure we are keeping up with current and future commitments.
• Build out and scale our data warehousing solution to continue to drive our data decision making capabilities.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, to build the foundation of our next generation of leaders.
• Collaborate cross functionally with product, customer and go-to-market teams on high impact initiatives.
• Drive communication loops within engineering such as technical specs, code reviews, technical grooming sessions. 
• Be an active participant in our agile processes, participate in taking on stories/tasks/bugs when necessary.

We seek to make Ribbon the best career decision anyone’s ever made. Part of fulfilling this vision is a compelling total compensation package. The base salary range for this role is between $160,000-195,000. Starting pay will be based on a number of factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience. Ribbon also offers a competitive equity package, health insurance, parental leave, 401K matching, and other great benefits.