Software Engineer, Backend

Company: FATHOM
Location: New York
Posted on: September 21, 2023

Job Description:

Fathom is a San Francisco based technology company with an engineering team out of Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Dropbox. Fathom is on a mission to automate away the $500B spent annually on administrative costs in the US healthcare system. We work with some of the nation's largest RCM organizations and physician groups. We empower medical coding operations with a world-class solution that is faster, more accurate, and more cost effective than any existing solutions. We are looking for a Software Engineer, Backend to work on data products that drive the core of our business. We want to work with teammates who are excited about learning how to build and support machine learning pipelines that scale not just computationally, but in ways that are flexible, iterative, and geared for collaboration. If you are a backend expert able to unify data, and build systems that scale from both an operational and an organizational perspective, Fathom is an opportunity worth exploring! Your role and responsibilities will include:

• Developing data infrastructure to ingest, sanitize and normalize a broad range of medical data, such as electronics health records, journals, established medical ontologies, crowd-sourced labelling and other human inputs
• Building performant and expressive interfaces to the data
• Creating infrastructure to help us not only scale up data ingest, but large-scale cloud-based machine learning We are looking for a teammate with:
  • 2+ years of development experience in a company/production setting
  • Experience building data pipelines from disparate sources
  • Hands-on experience building and scaling up compute clusters
  • A solid understanding of databases and large-scale data processing frameworks like Hadoop or Spark and the ability to evaluate which tools to use on the job
  • A unique combination of creative and analytic skills apt of designing a system capable of pulling together, training, and testing dozens of data sources under a unified ontology Bonus points if you have:
    • Know-how of developing systems to do or support machine learning, including experience working with NLP toolkits like Stanford CoreNLP, OpenNLP, and/or Python's NLTK
    • Expertise with wrangling healthcare data and/or HIPAA
    • Experience with managing large-scale data labelling and acquisition, through tools such as through Amazon Turk or DeepDive
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Keywords: FATHOM, New York , Software Engineer, Backend, IT / Software / Systems , New York, New York