As a Data Engineer at Neko Health, you will design and build scalable, secure data systems that power analytics and machine learning to enable preventive healthcare innovation. You will work with sensitive health data, ensuring high data quality, governance, and compliance while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver robust data pipelines and platform infrastructure.
What You'll Do
- Build and own scalable data pipelines for ingestion, integration, and processing across batch and streaming systems.
- Architect and maintain robust data models across databases and lakehouse platforms supporting analytics and ML workloads.
- Develop and own core data platform components and infrastructure.
- Ensure data integrity and quality through monitoring, alerting, lineage, and traceability.
- Manage and optimize data infrastructure including clusters, storage, and compute resources.
- Implement metrics and observability across services using logging, tracing, and monitoring.
- Troubleshoot production issues, pipeline failures, and performance bottlenecks.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, analysts, and backend engineers on modelling, governance, and integration.
What We're Looking For
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL.
- Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases, data lakes, and lakehouse technologies (e.g. Delta Lake, Parquet).
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing practices.
- Strong data quality and observability experience including metrics, tracing, and alerting.
- Experience working with data governance practices including lineage, cataloguing, access control, data contracts, and regulatory compliance.
Technical Stack
- Python
- SQL
- Delta Lake
- Parquet
- Azure
- AWS
- GCP
- CI/CD
- Azure Cosmos DB
- Azure Active Directory
- React
- TypeScript
- C++
- C#
- ASP.NET Core
Team & Environment
- Nearly 100 full-time engineers organized in small, cross-functional teams aligned to specific goals
- Teams are autonomous with cross-organizational collaboration; some are long-lived, others formed for targeted initiatives
- Transparent culture with bi-weekly engineering demos showcasing progress and innovations
- Quarterly and annual goal tracking with bi-weekly progress reviews
- Flexible ways of working with a bi-weekly planning cadence
- Mission-driven environment focused on shifting healthcare from treatment to prevention
- Inclusive culture with a simplified internal title framework focused on clarity over hierarchy
Benefits & Compensation
- Remote-First work environment
- Flexible workplace prioritizing work-life balance
- Occasional in-person team meetings several times per year
- Software engineers in Stockholm work from the office once every one to two weeks
- Bi-weekly engineering demos showcasing progress and innovations
- Support for reasonable adjustments during application process
Work Mode
- Remote-First; software engineers in Stockholm work from the office occasionally (once every 1-2 weeks)
- Teams meet in person several times per year
- Global team locations: Berlin, Chamonix, Hamburg, Lisbon, Marseille, Vilnius, Stockholm
Neko Health is committed to inclusive hiring and member-first care. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and encourage you to request reasonable adjustments to support your application.
