Data Engineer

Job Title: Data Engineer 

Department: Technology 

About the Role: 

The Data Engineer is responsible for designing and maintaining scalable, high-performance data infrastructure that supports Unite Us’ enterprise products and analytics capabilities. This role plays a critical part in enabling efficient data ingestion, transformation, and delivery across our systems, with a focus on reliability, data quality, and support for diverse internal and external reporting needs. The engineer will build and optimize pipelines using tools such as DBT, Airflow, and Spark, and manage data across platforms like Snowflake, Redshift, and Postgres, all within an AWS environment.

Collaboration is central to this role. The Data Engineer will work closely with Solutions Architects, Product Managers, and cross-functional engineering teams to ensure that our data architecture supports evolving product requirements and enterprise client expectations. The engineer will also help maintain data systems that meet the performance, security, and scalability standards required to handle sensitive healthcare and social care datasets.

This role is strategic in shaping Unite Us' data platform. The engineer is expected to think proactively about long-term scalability, build infrastructure as code, and design solutions that serve a broad range of stakeholders, including large enterprise clients with sophisticated data needs. Their work will directly support our ability to measure impact, demonstrate ROI, and deliver actionable insights across the Unite Us network.

What You'll Do:

• Execute a data architecture and infrastructure to meet business objectives
• Work closely with Solutions Architects and Product Managers to make sure that the technical infrastructure can support client requirements
• Develop ETL and data pipeline solutions to load data warehouse
• Test internal data pipelines for reliability and performance

You’re a great fit for this role if:

• Experience as a Data Engineer in which you set up data pipelines with DBT
• Experience using Airflow to create directed acyclic graphs (DAG) to orchestrate data-pipelines and processes using python
• Experience working with data warehouses, data lakes and ETL pipelines (Snowflake, Infomatica, Redshift, Postgres, SQL, etc)
• Experience with Spark using Scala 
• Experience using and building solutions to support various reporting and data user tools (Chartio, Tableau, Looker, etc)
• Experience setting up and maintaining databases within AWS
• Building Infrastructure as Code
• Experience working on applications serving large enterprise clients
• Experience working on healthcare and/or social determinants of health data products
• A focus on building performant systems
• Ability to think forward and build a scalable solution that satisfies various needs of enterprise clients with dedicated data teams

Our Mission:

Unite Us’ mission is to unlock the potential of every community. Our co-founders started Unite Us in 2013 to serve the people they served with. They witnessed firsthand the barriers and inefficiencies in trying to navigate health and social services, and set out to improve that experience for veterans and their families. Unite Us quickly expanded to serving all people who need connections to care across our country. Through Unite Us’ national network and software, community-based organizations, government agencies, and healthcare organizations are all connected to better collaborate to meet the needs of the individuals in their communities. We drive the collaboration to predict, deliver, and pay for services that impact whole-person health. If you want to do well and do good, join Unite Us.

Environmental Job Requirements and Working Conditions:

• This position is remote, U.S. based
• The target pay range for this role is: $115,000-$135,000. This salary range represents our target hiring range for this role. The proposed salary will be dependent on the candidate's skills, experience, and competencies, as well as location
• All team members will be required to pass a background check which includes criminal, employment, and education verification 

Benefits provided by Unite Us:

Medical, Dental, and Vision

We offer insurance to team members and eligible partners and dependents, including unlimited virtual mental health and acute medical visits.

Wellness

Mental health benefits, such as the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and wellness platform subscription, are available to all team members.

Flexible Time Off

Take what you need, including volunteer days and mental health days. We also offer 14 paid, company-wide holidays.
Paid Parental Leave

Adoptive parents are included.

Employee Resource Groups

Choose to join any of our ERGs, which celebrate and support a diverse and inclusive workplace. We also provide an ongoing series of DEI lunch & learn education.

Spending Accounts

We offer tax-advantaged health savings accounts (HSAs), flexible spending accounts (FSAs), and commuter benefits.

401(k) + Employer Match

Enjoy matching, immediate vesting and financial wellness resources

Additional Benefits

Life and AD&D - a company paid benefit, with the option to purchase additional coverage for yourself and your dependents

Disability Coverage

Accident Insurance

Pet Insurance

As part of this work at home job, we will provide you with all the necessary equipment to perform your duties, including a computer, mouse, keyboard as well as other items on our approved list of WFH supplies.

Unite Us is committed to building a diverse team and fostering an inclusive culture, and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and encourage our employees' differences in race, religion, color, national origin, gender, family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, medical conditions, and other characteristics. If you require assistance in applying for open positions due to a disability please email us at [email protected] to request an accommodation.

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