Senior Back-End Engineer II: Data

Helm Health

11d•$150,000 - $225,000•Remote

About The Position

We're seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Data team. You'll work alongside our Principal Data Engineer to build and improve the automated systems that power our data infrastructure — pipelines, data quality, integrations, and internal tooling that make the rest of the engineering org more effective.

Requirements

5+ years in backend or data engineering
Strong Python proficiency
Strong SQL skills, particularly in PostgreSQL and BigQuery
Experience designing and maintaining automated data pipelines
Experience with data quality frameworks, validation, and monitoring
Docker/Kubernetes
Google Cloud Platform

Nice To Haves

Go proficiency
Experience with additional data stores at scale (CouchDB, CockroachDB, or similar)
Health insurance or claims processing experience
Terraform/Terraform Cloud
Incident management and response experience
Start-up experience

Responsibilities

Design and build automated data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes
Improve data quality, validation, and monitoring across production systems
Build internal tooling that accelerates engineering workflows and reduces manual data operations
Work across PostgreSQL and BigQuery to optimize storage, query performance, and data modeling
Collaborate with engineering teams across the org to understand data needs and build scalable solutions
Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions
Contribute to the on-call rotation for data systems
Support data governance and access control practices to ensure compliance with HIPAA and other regulatory requirements across data systems
Maintain clear documentation for data pipelines, schemas, and system dependencies to support team knowledge sharing and operational continuity
Experience with dbt (data build tool) or similar SQL-based transformation frameworks