180M+ claims
550M+ patient encounters
1.2B+ workflow actions and outcomes annually
This is startup-level ownership with enterprise-level impact. You’ll build technology that moves from idea to real healthcare environments, solving complex problems at scale and changing how healthcare works.
As our Software Engineer - Data Platform, you will help build the data foundation of PhareOS Stack including the backend schemas, and APIs that power both our AI engine and user-facing applications. Every day you will work on reliable systems for ingesting, transforming, and serving large-scale healthcare data, ensuring high performance, observability, and security/compliance.
To thrive in this role, you must have deep expertise in distributed data systems, enjoy solving complex engineering challenges, and be passionate about building resilient infrastructure that powers both machine learning and software products.
Here's what you will experience working as a Software Engineer – Data Platform:
Designing and operating large-scale data pipelines, backend services, and APIs that support AI-powered healthcare applications.
Building highly scalable data infrastructure using modern data engineering technologies, streaming platforms, and cloud-native architectures.
Partnering closely with AI, machine learning, and product teams to deliver reliable data foundations for both internal models and customer-facing products.
Driving observability, reliability, and operational excellence through monitoring, automation, and proactive system management.
Taking ownership of critical production systems, influencing architecture decisions, and helping shape the future of our data platform.
Required Skills
5+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 2+ years working with high-throughput data pipelines and distributed data systems.
Strong proficiency in Scala and SQL, with experience designing and operating production-grade data platforms.
Experience building microservices, APIs, and ETL pipelines using Python, Java, or Go.
Hands-on experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, Airflow, Kafka, or similar data orchestration and streaming technologies.
Experience designing API integrations and distributed systems that interact with external partners and enterprise applications.
Experience with infrastructure and containerization technologies such as Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Experience operating business-critical systems and participating in on-call support rotations.
Healthcare or RCM experience
We prefer this role to sit at our Austin, TX hub.
Role Leveling
We are looking for candidates at various levels, ranging from Level 2 to Staff
L2: Independently delivers a complete end-to-end project, owning design, implementation, and delivery of scoped work (Compensation Range for L2: $120k - $150k)
L3: Leads delivery of larger projects, handling increased technical complexity and ambiguity, providing light guidance to L2s on shared work (Compensation Range for L3: $140k - $220k)
Senior: Team Lead responsible for managing a portfolio of projects that contribute to major technical initiatives. (Compensation Range for Senior: $140k - $255k)
Staff: Impact at the organizational level. Responsible for leading multiple teams or multiple broad initiatives simultaneously, ensuring that high-level technical goals are met across the entire organization. (Compensation Range for Staff: $140k - $300k)
Benefits
Top-of-market compensation, including bonus that starts at 10%
Flexible PTO
Comprehensive health benefits
401(k) matching
Inspiring, brilliant, mission-driven teammates


For this US-based position, the base pay range is $105,000.00 - $202,500.00 per year . Individual pay is determined by role, level, location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
This job is eligible to participate in our annual bonus plan at a target of 10.00%
The healthcare system is always evolving — and it’s up to us to use our shared expertise to find new solutions that can keep up. On our growing team you’ll find the opportunity to constantly learn, collaborate across groups and explore new paths for your career.
Our associates are given the chance to contribute, think boldly and create meaningful work that makes a difference in the communities we serve around the world. We go beyond expectations in everything we do. Not only does that drive customer success and improve patient care, but that same enthusiasm is applied to giving back to the community and taking care of our team — including offering a competitive benefits package.
R1 RCM Inc. (“the Company”) is dedicated to the fundamentals of equal employment opportunity. The Company’s employment practices , including those regarding recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, benefits, training, discipline, and termination shall not be based on any person’s age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. Furthermore, the Company is dedicated to providing a workplace free from harassment based on any of the foregoing protected categories.
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