Data Engineer (Remote)

  • Full-time

Company Description

BEKHealth is a high-growth, digital health SaaS company that was founded under the belief that accelerating the research of innovative medicines can have a profound impact on human health. BEKHealth has developed a clinical operating platform utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to reduce the clinical trial process with the goal of cutting research timelines by 50%. 

Patient recruitment for clinical trials is the single biggest concern for pharmaceutical, CROs and Research Organizations yet most of the process are manual and highly inefficient. BEKHealth has developed the industry's most advanced software system for ingesting EMR data, conducting trial feasibility, and identifying protocol eligible patients for clinical trials. With the ability to cover >95% of a trial protocol, the BEKHealth solution guarantees unprecedented accuracy and operational improvement.

Through strategic partnerships with multiple CROs and clinical data provider organizations, our plan is to become the gold standard in AI enabled clinical trial recruitment.  Our vision is to be a catalyst to a new era of clinical research and transforming patient access to medicines in the highest areas of unmet need.


Why Join BEKHealth?

  • We are well-funded, and our investors include Excelerate Health Ventures, Martin Ventures, Change Healthcare, Millenia Partners, and Connecticut Innovations
  • We have a differentiated platform since we outperform competition in install capacity, time to go live, and breath of product suite and associated services
  • The total U.S. market for clinical trials recruitment is $14 billion and our addressable market for current BEKHealth products is over $4 billion
  • Since 2021, we have growth ARR 7x and are projecting significant ARR growth through 2024
  • Our client pipeline is robust, and our clients include pharmaceutical, Health IT, CRO, and healthcare research organizations
  • Our Executives, Team, and Investors have deep clinical research, technical, and research service expertise
  • We like to have fun and believe in a strong company culture to win together!!

Job Description

The Product Development team, consisting of 14 people, is seeking a high achieving individual to support BEKTranslate, our AI-driven data processing platform. BEKTranslate alerts clinical researchers in real-time when patients have a time-sensitive medical event required for eligibility. Now millions of patients can be offered the chance to participate in clinical research and advance medical innovation.  BEKTranslate is revolutionary for ensuring no patient is missed for critical and emergency care clinical trials.

You will be responsible for the development and enhancement of electronic medical record (EMR) data processing pipelines in order to accelerate clinical research in critical areas such as cancer and Alzheimer’s.

Your Mission:

  • Development, enhancement, and maintenance of EMR data pipelines

  • Work with the Research Services team to launch the BEKHealth platform with new customers

  • Producing high-quality, maintainable code and technical documentation

  • Ensure compliance with software development life cycle and other processes

  • Improve patient lives and advance medical innovation

Qualifications

Your Competencies:

  • A technical, analytical, and detail-oriented mindset

  • Applying object-oriented programming (OOP) software design best practices

  • Curious, enjoys working with data, exploring medical ontologies/coding dictionaries, looking for patterns and outliers, and building the future of medicine

  • Entrepreneurial, proactive, solution-oriented, and driven to get things done in high-complexity environments

Your Education and Experience:

  • Undergraduate or graduate degree in a technical or scientific field, such as Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or similar.

  • 2+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, software developer, or related role preferred

  • Experience with Python and SQL required

  • Experience working with pandas, celery and pyodbc strongly preferred

  • Experience working with REST APIs is required

  • Experience designing or working with ETL pipelines required

  • Experience with back-end databases such as Postgres, MySQL, or SQLServer required

  • Experience with electronic medical record (EMR) systems and patient data is

  • preferred

  • Experience dealing with protected health information (PHI) is a plus

  • Experience with medical terminology or medical ontologies/semantics is a plus

  • Experience with Kubernetes required

  • Cloud oriented and familiar with SaaS models.

  • Immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.

Additional Information

Immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.

EEO Statement

US: BEK Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. BEK Health provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the law. BEK Health complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.