Python Application 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 is seeking a high achieving individual capable of supporting our extensive portfolio of innovative healthcare products. Our Product Development team is responsible for the development and enhancement of the BEKHealth platform. Specifically, you will be building software that facilitates the identification and enrollment of patients in critical areas such as cancer and Alzheimer’s.

Your Mission:

  • Producing high-quality, maintainable code and technical documentation

  • Development of exciting new features while maintaining existing products

  • Integrate new features and functionality into existing microservices

  • Support product management in the development, maintenance, and execution of product roadmap

  • Ensure compliance with software development life cycle and other processes

Qualifications

Your Competencies:

  • A collaborative mindset and eagerness to work side-by-side with other skilled developers

  • A thoughtful, test-driven approach to solving problems and implementing solutions 

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

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

  • Bias towards and embrace of automation, Agile/Scrum, and DevOps culture

  • Desire to continuously learn and explore

  • Desire to improve patient lives and advance medical innovation

Your Education and Experience:

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

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

  • Experience with Python required

    • Experience with frameworks such as Flask, Fast-API, or Django required

    • Experience with Celery, or other asynchronous libraries preferred

    • Experience with GraphQL, (graphene and graphene-mongo) preferred

  • Experience with back-end databases such as Postgres and MongoDB

    • Experience with database design and optimization is a plus

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

    • Experience with 21 CFR part 11 and validated systems for clinical research and clinical trials is a plus

  • Experience with Docker/Docker Compose preferred

  • Experience with Kubernetes preferred

    • Experience with EKS a plus

  • Cloud oriented and familiar with SaaS models.

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.