Data Engineer (East Coast Remote)

Empassion is a Management Services Organization (MSO) focused on improving the quality of care and costs on an often neglected “Advanced illness/ end of life” patient population, representing 4 percent of the Medicare population but 25 percent of its costs. The impact is driven deeper by families who are left with minimal options and decreased time with their loved ones. Empassion enables increased access to tech-enabled proactive care while delivering superior outcomes for patients, their communities, the healthcare system, families, and society.What Success Looks LikePartner with teams across the business and external partners to understand data needs and deliver reliable pipelines and models that solve real problemsBuild and maintain scalable ingestion and egress pipelines in Airflow and dbt Cloud, ensuring high quality, automated data flows across cloud environmentsImplement unit tests and monitoring to guarantee data integrity and reproducibilityModel and transform and structure healthcare datasets into usable formats that power data science models, and other reporting martsEnhance and scale data models with SQL and dbt, ensuring precision and adaptability for new partnershipsWrite Python code for Apache Airflow DAGs, components and utilities that orchestrate and monitor data workflows. Build complex pipelines that enable flexible scheduling, conditional logic, and smooth integration across multiple data sourcesWhat You Will Bring2+ years in data engineering or analytics engineering with proven ability to build pipelines and scalable workflowsStrong SQL skills for querying large, complex datasetsProficiency in Python for data engineering tasks (transformations, APIs, automation)Experience with cloud data warehouses and storage (GCP preferred: BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Composer; AWS/Azure equivalents acceptable)Hands on experience with dbt or similar data modeling toolsComfort working in collaborative dev/staging/prod environments, partnering with Product and Tech to safely test, launch, and anticipate the impact of new changesCuriosity about operational workflows and a drive to partner with non-technical teams, ensuring data and reporting align with how the business actually runs. You're not just a spec-taker, you're part of the solutionA proactive, problem-solving mindset and ability to thrive in fast-paced, iterative environmentsStrong communication skills to collaborate with analysts, engineers, and business stakeholdersNice to have:Knowledge of healthcare data (claims, ADT feeds, eligibility files)Familiarity with Git/GitHub for version controlEarly-stage startup experience (seed/Series A), especially mission-driven onesExperience building semantic layers and data models in Looker (LookML)Ready to Make a Difference?If you’re driven by data, healthcare, and impact, apply and let’s talk!We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.The compensation range represents total earnings, including both base salary and target bonus. In addition to competitive base salary and bonus opportunities, we offer equity grants for qualifying roles, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, and a 401(k) retirement plan to support your long-term financial well-being.Empassions' philosophy is to provide competitive compensation that aligns with our mission, business, and employee needs while remaining financially responsible and applying it fairly, equitably, consistently, and transparently. We are a tech-enabled remote healthcare company. We value the impact and significance of all team functions and roles equally, regardless of where you live.We plan to update our approach, data, and practices to ensure that we align with the market at year-end 2025.This strategy ensures that our employees are paid fairly in the market for their skills, experience, and performance. We use current data to draft compensation numbers and will update the data yearly. Performance is a highly valued and meaningful driver of employee compensation within Empassion's market position. Our performance-enhanced compensation philosophy rewards employees who consistently meet and exceed performance expectations through bonus incentives at all levels.We pay through consistent and compliant practices.We have team-oriented goals and recognize performance against those goals through compensation.Everyone is an owner and is expected to add value and contribute; when Empassion wins, we all win.We are designed to be fair and equitable and conduct a pay equity audit annually to ensure fair and equitable compensation level by level, job family by job family.