Senior Data Engineer

Arbiter is on a bold mission to end healthcare fragmentation by unifying patients, providers, and payers on a single intelligent care orchestration platform. Our shared data spine integrates clinical, financial, and policy information to ensure patients receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time. By connecting the people and systems behind every care decision, Arbiter is transforming how healthcare is delivered.

Today’s fragmented healthcare system delays access to the care patients need and burdens providers with inefficiencies. Arbiter uses AI to close gaps in care, optimize referrals, accelerate authorizations, and improve site-of-care navigation. Backed by leaders from top healthcare and technology organizations, we partner with hospitals, health systems, payers, and enterprise clients to build the connected infrastructure healthcare has been missing.

Our Engineering Culture & Values

We are a high-performing group of engineers dedicated to delivering innovative, high-quality solutions to our clients and business partners. We believe in:

• Engineering Excellence: Taking immense pride in our technical craft and the products we build, treating both with utmost respect and care.

• Impact-Driven Development: Firmly committed to engineering high-quality, fault-tolerant, and highly scalable systems that evolve seamlessly with business needs, minimizing disruption.

• Collaboration Over Ego: Valuing exceptional work and groundbreaking ideas above all else. We seek talented individuals who are accustomed to working in a fast-paced environment and are driven to ship often to achieve significant impact.

• Continuous Growth: Fostering an environment of continuous learning, mentorship, and professional development, where you can deepen your expertise and grow your career.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our data ecosystem, enabling Arbiter's intelligent operating system:

• Architect & Build: Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and high-performance data processing systems (batch and/or real-time streaming) that power critical business functions, AI agents, and advanced analytics.

• Technical Leadership: Lead complex data engineering initiatives from conception to deployment, ensuring data pipelines are reliable, efficient, testable, maintainable, and adhere to best practices for data ingestion from EMRs, claims, payor files, and payer policies.

• Data Modeling & Governance: Drive the design of our enterprise data models for optimal storage, retrieval, and analytical performance, ensuring alignment with product, business, and regulatory requirements, including tracking RAF performance and HCC code detection.

• Platform & Tooling: Champion and contribute to the development of core data platform tooling, frameworks, and standards that enhance developer productivity and data quality across the organization, supporting our AI agents and auditable systems.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with product managers, data scientists, software engineers, and other non-technical stakeholders to understand data needs, deliver impactful solutions, and provide expert data insights that drive the intelligent operating system.

• Mentorship & Growth: Actively participate in mentoring junior data engineers, contributing to our team's growth through technical guidance, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.

• Hiring & Onboarding: Play an active role in interviewing and onboarding new team members, helping to build a world-class data engineering organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of deep, hands-on experience in Data Engineering, Data Infrastructure, or building Data Engineering Tools and Frameworks, ideally within a high-growth tech environment.

• Exceptional expertise in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.

• Mastery in Python for large-scale data processing; experience with other languages like Java or Scala is a plus.

• Extensive experience designing, building, and optimizing complex, fault-tolerant data pipelines (both batch and real-time streaming).

• Profound understanding and hands-on experience with cloud-native data platforms, especially Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services like BigQuery, Dataflow, Composer, Dataproc.

• Demonstrated experience with modern data orchestration (e.g., Airflow), data transformation (dbt), and data warehousing concepts.

• Intimate knowledge of and ability to implement unit, integration, and functional testing strategies.

• Experience providing technical leadership and guidance, and thinking strategically and analytically to solve problems.

• Friendly communication skills and ability to work well in a diverse team setting.

• Demonstrated experience working with many cross-functional partners.

• Demonstrated experience leading a software product or component vision and delivery plan.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience developing and deploying machine learning algorithms in a production environment, particularly within the healthcare or life sciences domain, with a focus on AI agent development.

• Experience with advanced data extraction and correlation techniques, especially from unstructured medical data sources (e.g., PDF charts, clinical notes) for automated insights.

• Proficiency with data analysis and visualization tools such as Looker, Tableau, or similar BI platforms, for creating comprehensive command centers.

• Familiarity with data governance, data security, and compliance frameworks (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR) in a highly regulated industry.

This role can be remote or on-site, based in our New York City or Boca Raton offices, in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where great ideas move quickly from whiteboard to production.

Job Benefits

We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package designed to support your well-being and professional growth:

• Highly Competitive Salary & Equity Package: Designed to rival top FAANG compensation, including meaningful equity.

• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO): To ensure a healthy work-life balance.

• Comprehensive Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance: Robust coverage for you and your family.

• Life and Disability Insurance: Providing financial security.

• Simple IRA Matching: To support your long-term financial goals.

• Professional Development Budget: Support for conferences, courses, and certifications to fuel your continuous learning.

• Wellness Programs: Initiatives to support your physical and mental health.

Pay Transparency

The annual base salary range for this position is $180,000-$240,000. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from the posted hiring range based on work experience, skill level, and other factors.