Healthcare

Lead Data Engineer

Northeast - CT, NY, NJ, MA Full Time
Join Us!
HealthCare.com has become one of America’s fastest-growing insurtech companies, revolutionizing how consumers shop for health insurance. Leveraging advanced technology and data science, the company has developed customized proprietary products to better fit consumer requirements, enhance customer satisfaction, and take some of the guesswork and inefficiencies out of buying insurance.

About the Role

We’re hiring a Data Engineer to help own and scale our core data platform. This role is hands-on and production-focused: you’ll design, build, and maintain data pipelines that power analytics, machine learning, and operational systems.
We’re especially interested in candidates who combine strong data engineering fundamentals with either analytics depth or DevOps / platform experience.

What You’ll Do
Design, build, and maintain production-grade data pipelines using Airflow and AWS services like Lambda, DynamoDB
Own data ingestion from internal systems and third-party integrations (e.g., Google, Bing, external APIs).
Manage data storage and movement across S3, Snowflake, Snowpipe, and DynamoDB.
Write and maintain custom Python code that runs reliably in production.
Work across dev, staging, and production environments with proper deployment and rollback practices.
Partner with analytics, data science, and product teams to design reliable, usable data models.
Review code, mentor junior engineers, and help establish best practices for data quality, reliability, and observability.
Identify and fix performance, cost, or reliability issues in existing pipelines.