Specialist Application Engineer

Waystar; Lehi (UT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative healthcare technology firm is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to enhance their Data Licensing product. This role involves designing and optimizing scalable data pipelines and APIs to deliver high-performance data products. The ideal candidate will leverage their expertise in data engineering and API development to work with complex healthcare data, ensuring accuracy and compliance. Join a collaborative team dedicated to transforming healthcare through data and AI, where your contributions will drive significant customer value and improve patient outcomes. Enjoy a competitive salary and a range of benefits in a mission-driven environment.

Benefits

Competitive total rewards

Customizable benefits package

Generous paid time off

Paid parental leave

Education assistance opportunities

Free mental health programs

401(K) program with company match

Pet insurance

Employee resource groups

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in data engineering with a focus on cloud-based platforms.
• Strong understanding of data warehousing, data lakes, and modern data architectures.
• Proven experience designing and implementing large-scale data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable data pipelines using Snowflake and Google BigQuery.
• Develop and maintain ETL/ELT processes for structured and unstructured data.
• Monitor and troubleshoot data pipeline performance issues.

Skills

Data Engineering

API Development

Python

SQL Server

Postgres

Data Warehousing

Data Quality

Data Privacy

Data Modeling

Healthcare Data

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master’s degree in Data Engineering

Tools

Snowflake

Google BigQuery

Airflow

dbt

Job description

ABOUT THIS POSITION

Waystar, the leading Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) technology company, is seeking a seasoned Senior Data Engineer to support and evolve our Data Licensing product team. In this role, you will design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines, APIs, and infrastructure to deliver high-performance, licensed data products and insights to customers. You will work with complex healthcare data from multiple source systems and ensure accuracy, reliability, and performance using platforms like Snowflake, Google BigQuery, and Python. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in both data engineering and API development, with deep technical expertise and a proven ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and compliance teams. You will play a key role in building the infrastructure and services that enable data monetization, ensuring secure and compliant data delivery through modern APIs and cloud-based data platforms.

The ideal candidate will have an understanding of healthcare data and RCM processes, with strong technical expertise and the ability to collaborate across data, product, and business teams to build data products that deliver high-quality, accurate insights to clients. You will play a key role in building the infrastructure needed to support data monetization strategies and ensuring that licensed data products meet customer expectations for performance and accuracy.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

1. Data Architecture and Engineering

• Design and implement scalable, high-performance data pipelines using Snowflake and Google BigQuery to deliver licensed data products to customers.

• Develop and maintain ETL/ELT processes to ingest, transform, and store structured and unstructured data, ensuring data accuracy and timeliness.

• Build data infrastructure to support real-time and batch processing use cases for customer-facing products.

• Establish and enforce data quality and privacy standards and monitoring to ensure consistent and accurate data delivery to customers.

• Monitor and troubleshoot data pipeline performance issues and implement proactive improvements to minimize downtime and data delivery delays.

• Design, develop, and maintain RESTful APIs to enable secure external access to licensed data products.

• Strong experience designing and developing APIs (RESTful preferred) for secure data delivery and integration.

2. Data Modeling and Integration

• Design and implement data models to support data licensing and resale use cases, ensuring they meet customer requirements and business goals.

• Integrate data from multiple source systems, including SQL Server, Postgres, and external APIs, ensuring data consistency and reliability.

• Create and maintain data dictionaries and metadata to support customer understanding and self-service analytics.

• Implement data partitioning, indexing, and clustering strategies to improve query performance and reduce processing time.

• Develop and maintain secure de-dentification and data-sharing mechanisms to ensure appropriate access controls for licensed data products.

3. Data Licensing and Product Support

• Work closely with product and business teams to define data product requirements and deliver licensed data products that meet customer expectations.

• Implement secure data-sharing protocols to ensure that licensed data is accurately and efficiently delivered to customers.

• Design and implement data anonymization and de-identification processes to meet data privacy and HIPAA compliance requirements.

• Create scalable data delivery mechanisms to support on-demand and scheduled data access for external clients.

• Ensure data licensing agreements and customer contracts are reflected accurately in data access controls and delivery processes.

4. Value Delivery and Customer Outcome Achievement

• Partner with business and product teams to understand customer goals and translate them into data engineering solutions.

• Ensure that data products and pipelines deliver measurable business value and directly improve customer outcomes (e.g., better claim processing insights, faster payment reconciliation).

• Establish KPIs to track the business impact of data solutions and continuously improve them.

• Actively identify opportunities to improve data quality and speed of delivery to enhance customer experience and support data product growth.

5. Automation and Performance Optimization

• Automate repetitive data processing tasks using Python and SQL to reduce manual effort and increase efficiency.

• Monitor and optimize data pipeline performance, addressing bottlenecks and failures to improve customer satisfaction.

• Leverage Snowflake’s performance features (e.g., micro-partitions, clustering, materialized views) to optimize query performance.

• Implement data orchestration using tools like Airflow or dbt to automate and monitor workflows.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

Required:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or comparable experience.

• 5–7 years of experience in data engineering with a focus on cloud-based data platforms.

• Experience working with relational databases such as SQL Server and Postgres.

• Proven experience designing and implementing large-scale data pipelines with a focus on value delivery and performance.

• Strong understanding of data warehousing, data lakes, and modern data architectures.

• Experience working with data-sharing frameworks and licensing models.

• Strong business-focused mindset with a clear drive to deliver measurable outcomes.

• Strong attention to detail and focus on data accuracy and quality.

Preferred:

• Experience working with healthcare data and understanding RCM processes (claims, billing, payments).

• Familiarity with data orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, dbt).

• Experience with data security, access controls, and healthcare data compliance (HIPAA).

• Experience with data licensing agreements and customer-facing data products.

• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

• Why Join Us

• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud data technologies.

• Play a key role in delivering licensed data products that drive customer value.

• Work in a collaborative and innovative environment.

• Competitive salary, benefits, and career development opportunities.

• Be part of a mission-driven team that is transforming healthcare through data and AI.

ABOUT WAYSTAR

Through a smart platform and better experience, Waystar helps providers simplify healthcare payments and yield powerful results throughout the complete revenue cycle.

Waystar’s healthcare payments platform combines innovative, cloud-based technology, robust data, and unparalleled client support to streamline workflows and improve financials so providers can focus on what matters most: their patients and communities. Waystar is trusted by 1M+ providers, 1K+ hospitals and health systems, and is connected to over 5K commercial and Medicaid/Medicare payers. We are deeply committed to living out our organizational values: honesty; kindness; passion; curiosity; fanatical focus; best work, always; making it happen; and joyful,optimistic & fun.

Waystar products have won multiple Best in KLAS or Category Leader awards since 2010 and earned multiple #1 rankings from Black Book surveys since 2012. The Waystar platform supports more than 500,000 providers, 1,000 health systems and hospitals, and 5,000 payers and health plans. For more information, visit waystar.com or follow @Waystar on Twitter.

WAYSTAR PERKS

• Competitive total rewards (base salary + bonus, if applicable)
• Customizable benefits package (3 medical plans with Health Saving Account company match)
• We offer generous paid time off for our non-exempt team members, starting with 3 weeks +13 paid holidays, including 2 personal floating holidays. We also offer flexible time off for our exempt team members + 13 paid holidays
• Paid parental leave (including maternity + paternity leave)
• Education assistance opportunities and free LinkedIn Learning access
• Free mental health and family planning programs, including adoption assistance and fertility support
• 401(K) program with company match
• Pet insurance
• Employee resource groups

Waystar is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate, value, and support diversity and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

This applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.