Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack (Member Benefits)

Sidecar Health; California; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonus opportunity

Equity package

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision

Job summary

Sidecar Health, Inc. is seeking a senior software engineer to own data-intensive systems and production pipelines.

You will design and operate data integrations, build internal tools to automate pricing and operational workflows, and uphold high standards for data quality and reliability across healthcare data streams. You will collaborate with product, operations, and pricing teams to translate complex business needs into durable data services, while guiding architecture and implementation

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Proven track record owning data-intensive systems in production
• Deep experience building and operating data pipelines at scale (Snowflake preferred)
• Hands-on experience with third-party integrations and unreliable data
• Experience building internal tools to automate operational workflows
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems and data modeling

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve production services and APIs for member, partner, and internal data.
• Design, build, and operate third-party integrations as resilient services
• Develop internal tools to automate high-volume operational work
• Ensure correctness, latency, data quality, and auditability of data pipelines
• Set technical direction for architecture and integration patterns
• Lead on-call and incident response, RCAs, and preventive fixes
• Collaborate with product, operations, and pricing stakeholders to translate needs into durable capabilities

Skills

Data architecture

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

AI-assisted tooling

Clear communication

Education

Bachelor's in CS or related field

MS preferred

Tools

Snowflake

APIs

Data pipelines

Observability tools

Third-party integrations

Job description

Sidecar Health is redefining health insurance. Our mission is to make excellent healthcare affordable and accessible for everyone. The passionate people who make up Sidecar Health’s team come from all over, with backgrounds as tech leaders, policy makers, healthcare professionals, and beyond. If you want to use your talents to transform healthcare in the United States, come join us!

Healthcare runs on data moving between systems that were never designed to talk to each other. Provider directories, benefit and pricing feeds, claims data, and a long tail of third-party partners each with their own format and quirks. You'll own the platform that makes that data usable: the pipelines that land it in Snowflake, the delivery pipelines that gets it back out to partners, and the third-party integrations that keep it flowing correctly at scale.

You’ll also build the internal tools that let our operations and pricing teams move fast without waiting on engineering for every change. You’ll be expected to set technical direction for how we handle data at scale, unblock other engineers who are heads-down on features, and be the person the team turns to when a data pipeline or integration problem doesn’t have an obvious answer.

• Own and evolve the production services and APIs that power provider, benefit, and pricing experiences for members, partners, and internal teams, including the data flows into Snowflake and out to third‑party consumers
• Design, build, and operate third‑party integrations as resilient production services (idempotent, retry‑safe, and observable), handling schema drift, malformed data, and partner‑specific quirks gracefully
• Build full‑stack internal products that automate repetitive, high‑volume operational work (e.g., pricing adjustments for benefit amounts) — turning manual processes into scalable, self‑service applications with clear UX and audit trails
• Ensure the production services handling large volumes of medical provider data meet a high bar for correctness, latency, data quality, and auditability
• Set technical direction for service architecture and integration patterns — evaluate and introduce modern architectural approaches (service‑oriented design, API contracts, event‑driven systems, workflow orchestration, etc.) Act as a technical unblocker across teams: review designs, pair on hard problems, and help other engineers ship product features rather than stall
• SLOs, observability, alerting, testing, and safe deployment practices (feature flags, canary releases, fast rollbacks)
• Take part in and help shape on‑call and incident response: lead root‑cause analysis and drive the fixes that prevent repeat incidents
• Partner closely with product, operations, and pricing stakeholders to translate ambiguous business needs (like "automate this pricing process") into durable product capabilities and production services
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of owning data‑intensive systems in production
• ~ Deep experience building and operating data pipelines at scale; ingestion, transformation, and delivery (Snowflake experience strongly preferred)
• ~ Hands‑on experience building and maintaining third‑party integrations, including handling unreliable or inconsistent external data
• ~ Experience building internal tools/platforms that automate operational workflows for non‑engineering teams
• ~ Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, data modeling, and modern architectural patterns for processing data at scale
• ~ Demonstrated ability to operate as a technical leader: setting direction, unblocking others, and influencing without direct authority
• ~ able to explain a data architecture tradeoff to both engineers and non‑technical stakeholders
• ~ Fluent, disciplined use of AI‑assisted tooling to move faster, with the rigor to verify correctness, security, and quality before it ships
• Experience with healthcare data (provider directories, NPI, claims, fee schedules, or benefits data)
• We prioritize impact over polish. Bias for action — ship, learn, iterate
• Ownership — you design it, build it, run it
• Competitive salary, bonus opportunity, and equity package
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits
• A 401k retirement plan
• Paid vacation and company holidays

Sidecar Health is an Equal Opportunity employer committed to building a diverse team. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status.