Senior Software Engineer

PurpleLab; Wayne (PA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

PurpleLab is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build high-performance data services for healthcare data processing. You will apply Python, NLP, and large-scale data engineering to support health data processing, medical code normalization, and extraction from unstructured data.

You will work with data scientists and clinicians to create features in PurpleLab platforms, ensuring HIPAA/HITRUST compliance and cloud readiness on AWS.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional Python development experience.
• Hands-on experience with NLP libraries (spaCy, Hugging Face Transformers, NLTK, scikit-learn).
• Familiarity with healthcare vocabularies (ICD-10, CPT, HCPCS, DRG, SNOMED-CT).
• Strong experience with SQL and data warehouses.
• Proven track record working with high-volume data pipelines.
• Experience with APIs and microservices frameworks (FastAPI, Flask, Django).

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable Python services to process large healthcare datasets (claims, providers, patients).
• Implement NLP techniques for medical text classification, entity extraction, and coding crosswalks (ICD-10 ? CPT ? DRG).
• Collaborate with data scientists and clinicians to build features in PurpleLab platforms.
• Ensure solutions are compliant with HIPAA/HITRUST and optimize for AWS deployments.

Skills

Python development

NLP techniques

Healthcare data experience

SQL & data warehouses

High-volume data pipelines

APIs & microservices

Tools

spaCy

Hugging Face Transformers

NLTK

scikit-learn

FastAPI

Flask

Django

Job description

Description

The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for leading the design and construction of high-performance data services within the product development team. This role requires the application of expertise in Python, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and large-scale data engineering principles to support critical functions, including health data processing, medical code normalization, and the extraction of valuable information from unstructured health data. This position is central to solving complex, real-world problems in the healthcare domain through robust and scalable data solutions.

Description

The Senior Software Engineer is responsible for leading the design and construction of high-performance data services within the product development team. This role requires the application of expertise in Python, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and large-scale data engineering principles to support critical functions, including health data processing, medical code normalization, and the extraction of valuable information from unstructured health data. This position is central to solving complex, real-world problems in the healthcare domain through robust and scalable data solutions.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Develop scalable Python services to process large healthcare datasets (claims, providers, patients).
• Implement NLP techniques for medical text classification, entity extraction, and coding crosswalks (ICD-10 ? CPT ? DRG).
• Contribute to payer and provider mastering pipelines, improving data accuracy and interoperability.
• Collaborate with data scientists and clinicians to build features in PurpleLab platforms.
• Ensure solutions are compliant with healthcare data privacy/security requirements (HIPAA, HITRUST).
• Optimize system performance and reliability for cloud deployment (AWS).
• Perform other duties as assigned to support business needs and company objectives.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional Python development experience.
• Hands-on experience with NLP libraries (spaCy, Hugging Face Transformers, NLTK, scikit-learn).
• Familiarity with healthcare vocabularies (ICD-10, CPT, HCPCS, DRG, SNOMED-CT).
• Strong experience with SQL and data warehouses.
• Proven track record working with high-volume data pipelines.
• Experience with APIs and microservices frameworks (FastAPI, Flask, Django).