Sr. Software Engineer - Search & Insights
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Job description
Senior Product Engineer on the Search and Insights Engineering team, responsible for designing, building, and evolving the H1 Knowledge Graph and Search platform and owning the technical direction of the customer-facing platform.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
What you'll do
- Own the full lifecycle of platform features design and development — from problem definition and schema modeling through implementation, versioned rollout, and deprecation planning
- Lead Search and Knowledge graph Platform evolution efforts to reduce redundancy, optimize payload size, and improve usability
- Partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into clear technical specifications and well-scoped Jira tickets, while remaining hands-on in the codebase
- Own and evolve data pipelines and transformation workflows that support Search and Knowledge graph Platform
- Define and implement scalable integration patterns (Search and Knowledge graph Platforms) to support internal and external data exchange
- Drive system performance and scalability improvements as data volume and product complexity grow
- Lead troubleshooting of complex system and data issues, establishing best practices across reliability, observability, testing, and data quality
- Ensure data security, integrity, and compliance with governance and regulatory standards
- Mentor engineers and elevate technical standards across the team
- Leverage AI-first development practices (e.g., Claude, Copilot) to improve speed and quality of engineering output
What we're looking for
- Strong coding skills in Python or NodeJS for high-availability Search and Knowledge graph Platform development
- Experience designing and operating data systems and pipelines at scale
- Familiarity with orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or Terraform
- Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL
- Experience with Git, JIRA, and CI/CD platforms (e.g., CircleCI)
- Proven experience designing and evolving external-facing Search and Knowledge graph Platforms, including versioning, pagination, and deprecation strategies
- You write clean, maintainable, and scalable code, and set a high bar for engineering quality
- Strong experience diagnosing complex system and data issues and driving improvements
- Deep experience designing and evolving Elastic Search and Knowledge graph Platforms
- Comfortable authoring technical design documents and aligning cross-functional stakeholders
- Effectively influence architecture decisions and collaborate across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams
Nice to have
- Experience with ElasticSearch, ETL/Search and Knowledge graph Platform design, healthcare data domains, or customer-facing data delivery systems
Your team
Search and Insights Engineering
Part of Product Engineering, which develops and delivers consumer-facing applications, processes data from upstream sources, constructs robust data pipelines, and transforms data for downstream use.
Benefits
The opportunity to work with leading biotech and life sciences companies in an innovative industry with a mission to improve healthcare around the globe
- Full suite of health insurance options, in addition to generous paid time off
- Pre-planned company-wide wellness holidays
- Retirement options
- Health & charitable donation stipends
- Impactful Business Resource Groups
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About the company
H1 harnesses the power of data and AI-technology to unlock groundbreaking medical insights and convert those insights into action that result in optimal patient outcomes and accelerates an equitable and inclusive drug development lifecycle.
Mission
To provide a platform that can optimally inform every doctor interaction globally, promoting health equity and building needed trust in healthcare systems.