Data Engineer

Fira Health is building AI-native infrastructure to automate the administrative backbone of healthcare. In this role, you’ll own the data platform that powers business intelligence, operational analytics, and AI-driven decision-making across our platform, driving real-time insights from healthcare data to improve care delivery and efficiency.

What youll do

• Design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines that integrate data from multiple sources including EMRs, EDI feeds, internal systems, and third-party APIs.
• Develop and manage data infrastructure using modern data stack technologies (Postgres, Databricks, Redshift, or similar warehouses).
• Model complex healthcare domains (RCM workflows, clinical operations, intake processes) into clean, queryable data schemas for analytics.
• Build analytics, alerting, and dashboards to identify and prioritize opportunities for automation or process improvement.
• Contribute to the technical direction of the BI platform, scaling data infrastructure to support growing operational needs.

What Fira Health is looking for

• 3+ years of data engineering experience building and maintaining data pipelines, warehouses, and analytics infrastructure in production.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python; experience with at least one modern data warehouse (Databricks, Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery) and relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• Comfortable with statistical analysis, exploratory data analysis, and applying analytical techniques; Python or R for data analysis.
• Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines using orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt, Dagster, or similar).
• Strong collaboration and communication skills; ability to translate technical data concepts for non-technical stakeholders and partner with Product and Engineering.
• Preferred: healthcare technology experience with standards (EDI, HL7, FHIR, claims data, clinical documentation); real-time or streaming data pipelines; data science or ML feature engineering; experience with BI tools (Hex, SigmaComputing, or similar).
• Education: Strong CS fundamentals; bachelor's or higher in a technical field is preferred.