Senior Engineer, Data & AI Infrastructure
Minneapolis, MN
Engineering /
Full Time /
Hybrid
Hi, we’re Gravie. Our mission is to improve the way people purchase and access healthcare through innovative, consumer-centric health benefit solutions that people can actually use. Our industry-changing products and services are developed and delivered by a diverse group of unique people. We encourage you to be your authentic self - we like you that way.
A Little More About The role:
We seek a Senior Engineer, Data and AI Infrastructure to lead design and build of data platform infrastructure spanning internal and external use cases. Your focus will be unifying and processing data across internal microservices, external partners, and more. A history of successful collaboration and partnership with Product Engineers is essential. You are likely to be self-driven, enjoy working in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment, and want to use a modern data engineering stack to solve challenging problems in a highly-regulated industry.
You will:
· Contribute to the overall architecture of new microservices and event-driven patterns, blending your focus on data with best practices for data quality and consistency to inform architecture strategies and standards.
· Build infrastructure supporting operational systems of record, user-facing dashboards and reports, Machine Learning inference, and third-party integrations.
· Adopt a user-centric approach and develop a track record for productizing complex data infrastructure.
· Cultivate cross-functional partnerships spanning Product Engineering, Data Engineering, Analytics, external partners, and other stakeholders.
· Ensure data quality, governance, security, and compliance – using automation and AI where practical.
You bring:
· 5+ years of experience architecting, building, optimizing, and operating, data integrations, stream processing, and near real-time cloud analytics architectures using technologies like Flink, Kafka, Snowflake, Clickhouse.
· Expert-level SQL and Python, experience building and integrating with event-driven microservices, APIs, and flat files. Familiarity with JVM-based languages like Kotlin or Java, and in enabling AI inference infrastructure.
· 8+ years of overall experience as a Data Engineer or Backend Software Engineer, with a degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or another quantitative field.
· Practical experience with data structures, transformation, governance, metadata management, and distributed systems, using services like AWS ECS/EKS, RDS, SQS/SNS, and Lambda at scale in production environments.
· Excellent communication skills and demonstrated success in driving results through influence and collaboration.
· Eligibility to work in the United States without need of sponsorship now or in the future.
Extra credit:
· Knowledge of Health Insurance Industry, HIPAA Protected Health Information (PHI) compliance & standards.
· History of being a key contributor to projects with complex dependencies, processes, and being accountable for estimations of scope and timeline.
· Previous venture-backed startup experience.
Gravie:
In order to transform health insurance and build a health plan everyone can love, we need talented people doing amazing work. In exchange, we offer a great overall employee experience with opportunities for career growth, meaningful mission-driven work, and an above average total rewards package.
The salary range for this position is $123,300 - $205,500 annually. Numerous factors including, but not limited to, educations, skills, work experience, certifications, etc. will be considered when determining compensation.
Our unique benefits program is the gravy, i.e., the special sauce that sets our compensation package apart. In addition to standard health and wellness benefits, Gravie’s package includes alternative medicine coverage, flexible PTO, up to 16 weeks paid parental leave, paid holidays, a 401k program, cell phone reimbursement, transportation perks, education reimbursement, and 1 week of paid paw-ternity leave.
A Little More About Us:
· We know healthcare. Our company was founded and is still led by industry veterans who have started and grown several market-leading companies in the space.
· We have raised money from top tier investors who share the same long-term vision as we do of building an industry defining company that will endure over the long run. We are well capitalized.
· Our customers like us. Our revenue churn is in the low single digits, in an industry where greater than 20% churn is common.
· Our culture is unique. We tend to be non-hierarchical, merit-driven, opinionated but kind people who thrive working in a high-performance, fast-paced environment. People at Gravie care deeply about making a positive impact in the lives of the people we serve. We may not be the right place for everybody, but if you get energized by doing work every day that focuses on putting consumers at the front of the line, we could be a great place for you. It takes unique people and diverse perspectives to deliver our results. We encourage you to be your authentic self – we like you that way.
