Python Data Engineer

SymphonyRM helps health systems thrive in the rapidly evolving US Healthcare industry by keeping patients healthy and physicians happy. By analyzing large amounts of data from many sources, we empower clients to make smarter decisions at every turn in their business. Our clients love SymphonyRM’s ability to guide them to take the next best action for both patients and physicians.

We are seeking a Python Data Engineer to ingest client data, prepare data for use in production systems, and discover insights by analyzing data. You’ll have access to vast amounts of data, great analysis tools, and a powerful data pipeline platform. Your code will improve the lives of patients and increase physician satisfaction. As a member of our data analytics team, you’ll learn the latest tools and techniques for manipulating and analyzing data.

Data engineers play a critical role at SymphonyRM. Our data engineers:

Use our sophisticated data pipeline built on Apache Airflow to import data into Amazon Redshift and process it for production use

Write Python code to analyze and visualize data using Jupyter notebooks and Pandas

Describe data via modeling language to our data exploration platform Looker

Build re-usable tools and infrastructure in Python to automate data processing

Contribute to open source projects like Airflow along with our own: LookML-Generator

Responsibilities

Using our Python-based data pipeline platform, load client data into databases

Prepare data for production use: scrub and transform data, normalize and standardize it to make high-quality data available to our clients

Write Python code to help to improve our data pipeline infrastructure and make data manipulation fast, easy, and reliable

Develop re-usable Python-based tools and libraries for use throughout our data analytics infrastructure

Work closely with data scientists and collaborate with back-end and front-end engineering teams along with our customer solutions group

Perform analysis on a variety of data sets to discover new insights, help clients understand trends in key metrics, and answer questions with data

Describe data to our business intelligence and data exploration platform in the form of LookML code

This position is based out of our Palo Alto, CA office

Requirements

1 year or more of work experience with Python programming or other significant introductory Python programming, e.g. completion of a Python-focused bootcamp

Exposure to databases and SQL along with basics of storing and analyzing data

Detail orientation: ability to work carefully to achieve an accurate result

Solid communication skills: ability to prepare written material that communicates clearly and succinctly

Willingness to learn and quickly grow in your career and as part of our small, but rapidly growing team

Bonus Qualifications

Significant experience using SQL databases

Use of data visualization tools (Matplotlib, Excel, etc.) to display analysis results

Experience using source control systems, e.g. git

Super bonus points for familiarity with Apache Airflow or Pandas

Benefits

SymphonyRM is a small, but rapidly growing start-up. We’ve already achieved great product-market fit with clients paying us large monthly fees for our SaaS product. Clients love the results they are achieving using our product.

Our team loves working at SymphonyRM because we have:
A cohesive team with a mix of experienced veterans along with younger people all focused on building a great product

Cutting edge tools applied to large sets of data to deliver valuable insights

A product that helps achieve meaningful results that improve the lives of patients and physicians

Great learning opportunities and the ability to grow in your career

A huge opportunity to be the leader in Healthcare CRM

Great location — downtown Palo Alto on University Ave right next to shops and restaurants

Competitive compensation and equity in an early stage, fast growing start-up