Datavant
Senior/Staff Software Engineer, SmartRequest
Job Summary
This role involves leading the design and development of mission-critical health data systems, including APIs, data pipelines, and secure backend services. The candidate should have extensive experience in software engineering, distributed systems, and health data integrations like FHIR and EHRs. Responsibilities include mentoring team members, influencing system architecture, and exploring emerging technologies such as AI/ML for healthcare applications. The position emphasizes a product mindset, ownership, and a commitment to building systems that serve patients, providers, and other healthcare stakeholders.
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Job Description
Datavant is a data platform company and the world’s leader in health data exchange. Our vision is that every healthcare decision is powered by the right data, at the right time, in the right format.
Our platform is powered by the largest, most diverse health data network in the U.S., enabling data to be secure, accessible and usable to inform better health decisions. Datavant is trusted by the world’s leading life sciences companies, government agencies, and those who deliver and pay for care.
By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a high-performing, values-driven team. Together, we’re rising to the challenge of tackling some of healthcare’s most complex problems with technology-forward solutions. Datavanters bring a diversity of professional, educational and life experiences to realize our bold vision for healthcare.
As a Senior/Staff engineer on the Provider engineering team you will solve highly impactful problems that will have direct impact on patients and providers by leveraging your expertise in building large scale distributed systems. Don’t know our tech stack well? We view technology as a means to solving problems and getting things done, we value talent over current tech stack. You will be hands-on and work on the architecture and design of critical systems while helping grow other team members. You will start meaningful work from day one and will be in a stretch role that can propel your career to higher levels.
What You Will Bring to the Table:
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6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong track record of building and evolving both source code and complex systems — from services and APIs to end-to-end applications and data pipelines.
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Proven experience owning production systems at scale, including revisiting and refactoring your own architecture as real-world usage exposed edge cases and tradeoffs.
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Deep expertise in your preferred stack, and the pragmatism to learn new tools, frameworks, or paradigms when the product or customer demands it.
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A product mindset — you think beyond the code to how the software delivers value, and you prioritize shipping usable, testable, and valuable features over abstract technical perfection.
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Curiosity and ownership in equal measure — you enjoy untangling ambiguity, tackling unknowns, and getting into the details of legal-tech and health-tech systems that impact millions.
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Commitment to mission and ethics — you care deeply about building systems that work for patients, healthcare providers, legal requesters, and every stakeholder who depends on timely, accurate access to medical data.
The Impact You Will Make:
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Lead design and development of mission-critical systems that power SmartRequest — from billing infrastructure and document pipelines to metadata indexing, patient search, and AI-powered summarization.
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Mentor and collaborate with engineers across the stack, guiding technical decisions while fostering a culture of curiosity, ownership, and velocity.
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Drive the architecture of a new SaaS product that transforms a $205M services business into a scalable, self-serve platform serving attorneys, insurers, and government entities.
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Balance pragmatism and ambition, delivering high-impact V1 features while laying a modular foundation for future request types, users, and integrations.
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Contribute across the stack — from secure backend APIs and health data integrations (FHIR, CCDA, EHRs) to performant frontends and structured record viewers.
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Explore and deploy new technologies where they unlock product value — including LLMs for summarization, FHIR-based search, automated PDF parsing, or pricing engines with real-time feedback.
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We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.
At Datavant our total rewards strategy powers a high-growth, high-performance, health technology company that rewards our employees for transforming health care through creating industry-defining data logistics products and services.
The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job.
To ensure the safety of patients and staff, many of our clients require post-offer health screenings and proof and/or completion of various vaccinations such as the flu shot, Tdap, COVID-19, etc. Any requests to be exempted from these requirements will be reviewed by Datavant Human Resources and determined on a case-by-case basis. Depending on the state in which you will be working, exemptions may be available on the basis of disability, medical contraindications to the vaccine or any of its components, pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions, and/or religion.
This job is not eligible for employment sponsorship.
Datavant is committed to a work environment free from job discrimination. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status. To learn more about our commitment, please review our EEO Commitment Statement here. Know Your Rights, explore the resources available through the EEOC for more information regarding your legal rights and protections. In addition, Datavant does not and will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay.
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