Senior Python Backend: Healthcare Data Quality & APIs

EXL; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

EXL is seeking a highly motivated Backend Developer to join our healthcare data quality platform in Hartford. You will design and maintain backend services using Python and FastAPI to ingest, process, score, and onboard clinical data from CCDA documents.

You will implement secure data ingestion, scalable APIs, and CCDA parsing with lxml, contributing to data quality improvements and interoperability across healthcare workflows. Knowledge of HIPAA is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics or related field.
• Minimum 4 years of Python backend development experience.
• Experience owning system architecture decisions and API contracts.
• Experience with FastAPI routers, Depends(), UploadFile, StreamingResponse, SPA serving.
• Strong XML parsing experience with lxml.
• Hands-on cloud platform experience (GCP or equivalent).
• Strong SQL experience and query troubleshooting skills.
• Knowledge of HIPAA compliance and data privacy standards.
• Nice-to-have Docker and cloud deployment experience.
• CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar tools.
• Strong QA mentality and test planning experience.
• Knowledge of US Healthcare Interoperability, CCDA/HL7 CDA R2.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services using Python and FastAPI.
• Build scalable APIs for healthcare data ingestion, processing, scoring, and reporting.
• Develop and maintain REST endpoints for file uploads, data validation, and exports.
• Implement processing patterns, thread pools, and DI.
• Create reusable code with type hints and data-class models.
• Develop and maintain CCDA parsing and data extraction capabilities.
• Parse healthcare documents using lxml and XPath expressions.
• Extract, analyze, and score clinical information.
• Enhance data quality scoring algorithms and clinical coverage logic.
• Implement security and governance best practices.
• Support healthcare interoperability initiatives.

Skills

Python

Backend design

XML parsing

GCP

SQL

QA methodologies

HIPAA compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/related field

Tools

FastAPI

lxml

Docker

GitHub Actions

Cloud (GCP)

Job description

EXL is seeking a highly motivated Backend Developer to join our healthcare data quality platform in Hartford. You will design and maintain backend services using Python and FastAPI to ingest, process, score, and onboard clinical data from CCDA documents.

You will implement secure data ingestion, scalable APIs, and CCDA parsing with lxml, contributing to data quality improvements and interoperability across healthcare workflows. Knowledge of HIPAA is required.