Software Engineer

Flatiron Health • New York, NY

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Reimagine the infrastructure of cancer care within a community that values integrity, inspires growth, and is uniquely positioned to create a more modern, connected oncology ecosystem. We’re looking for a data and technology-oriented Software Engineer to help us accomplish our mission to improve and extend lives by learning from the experience of every person with cancer. Are you ready to be the next changemaker in cancer care? This role will design and develop technology within Flatiron’s engineering organization. This role will collaborate cross functionally with experts across a variety of functions to understand how to develop technology solutions that drive clinical outcomes either in the practice or research settings to understand their challenges and how technology can help solve them.

Requirements

• 1-4 years of relevant professional experience
• Comfortable with ambiguity and always willing to teach and learn
• Excited to work in a fast moving environment, think creatively and be scrappy to get the job done
• A nose for value and empathy for your customers
• Experience with languages like Python, C++, Java, and/or C#, but are also willing to pick up new programming languages as needed
• Some experience working with cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP
• A good understanding of relational databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MSSQL
• Understand the purpose of “boring” technology and are willing to use the right tools to get the job done

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in healthcare or exposure to healthcare-related standards like HL7
• Bachelors, Masters, and/or Ph.D. in computer science or a related field
• Experience developing software with AI agents like Claude Code or Cursor
• Experience with containerized environments such as Docker, including image creation, orchestration, and production deployment.
• Experience building and maintaining data pipelines and modeling production datasets in Snowflake.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to deeply understand problems before jumping to solutions whilst balancing customer needs, technical constraints, and business priorities
• Break down ambiguous requirements into well-scoped, actionable work, and ask clarifying questions and surface risks early
• Design, implement, test, and deploy features end-to-end. Write clean, well-tested code that balances pragmatism with long-term maintainability
• Investigate and resolve bugs by tracing issues to root causes, designing thoughtful fixes, and validating changes with automated tests
• Participate in design and code reviews, giving and receiving constructive feedback that elevates team quality
• Effectively leverage AI-assisted coding tools and modern technologies to accelerate development while applying critical judgment to validate outputs and maintain security, reliability, and code quality

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed