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Our mission
Healthie powers virtual-first care delivery while improving access to healthcare and enabling better healthcare outcomes through technology.
We build infrastructure that all healthcare organizations need to perform virtual-first care. Between our EHR, scheduling, and patient engagement solutions, Healthie’s API-first approach makes it easy for organizations of every size to build, customize, and scale their business.
Today, we power thousands of organizations ranging from small private practices, to digital health startups and multi-billion-dollar healthcare companies. Leveraging Healthie, our customers deliver care to millions of patients, across the full spectrum of healthcare services—from preventative health and wellness to complex chronic care management. We believe that the future of healthcare delivery is virtual-first, longitudinal, and collaborative.
Learn more at https://www.gethealthie.com/
About the role
We’re hiring a Senior Database Engineer - PostgreSQL to join our Platform Engineering team at Healthie. You’ll be a key contributor to one of the most important pieces of digital infrastructure in the healthcare space. Our platform is growing rapidly, and we need someone who can ensure our databases scale, perform, and remain reliable.
You’ll be responsible for database infrastructure administration across production, QA, and development environments, ensuring smooth operation, monitoring performance, and maintaining automation scripts. Your expertise in PostgreSQL will help shape how we deploy, scale, monitor, and refine our data model. Strong familiarity with ORMs (especially Rails/ActiveRecord) is a big plus!
You will own our Aurora databases, managing database setup, configuration, upgrades, monitoring, and troubleshooting. You will design and execute zero or minimal downtime upgrades and disaster recovery solutions while implementing best practices for partitioning, archiving, and accessing archived data. Measuring and optimizing system performance, capacity planning, and security instrumentation will be part of your role, along with collaborating with feature teams to facilitate schema and query improvements. Observing application behavior to prioritize query optimizations will also be a key aspect of this position.
At Healthie, we’re all about building high-quality, reliable infrastructure that enables better healthcare. If you’re passionate about database performance, scalability, and impact-driven work, we’d love to hear from you.
Details, details
- This is a full-time, remote position and U.S. work authorization is required.
- The salary range is $160,000 - $185,000.
About you
- You have deep expertise in Amazon AWS RDS Aurora, Postgres replication, partitioning, clustering, high availability, backup, and disaster recovery strategies.
- You have experience in mission-critical environments, ensuring database reliability, performance, and scalability.
- Bonus points for experience in healthcare or other regulated industries.
- You come with a strong foundation in designing, scaling, and optimizing Postgres deployments.
- You have a strong ability to prioritize platform needs, balancing short-term fixes with long-term scalability.
- You are a collaborative leader who influences without authority—people enjoy working with you because you communicate clearly and support your colleagues.
- You have very strong interpersonal, collaboration, and communication skills, embodying Healthie’s core values of Respect, Reliability, and Resilience without ego.
- You have a bias toward execution—you focus on getting things done and don’t let obstacles slow you down. You are full of grit and not afraid to roll up your sleeves and move quickly.
- You thrive in fast-paced, problem-solving environments, constantly improving and optimizing database performance.
- You are Mission-driven, excited about building infrastructure that improves patient outcomes.
- You have strong proficiency in tools like Terraform, PG Bouncer, scripting, and postgres monitoring systems.
- You are experienced in building and maintaining infrastructure for critically important applications.
- You take initiative and problem-solve effectively, asking the right questions and finding solutions.
Interview Process
- Quick chat with Katie, Director of Talent (15 minutes)
- Interview with John, Director of Engineering (30 minutes)
- Complete our Technical Assessment (asynchronous)
- Talk technical with Chris M (30 minutes)
- Meet with Andrew from the Platform team (30 minutes)
- Interview with Cavan, CTO + cofounder (20 minutes)
- Reference checks
To learn more about Working at Healthie & our benefits, click here.
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Healthie is committed to equal employment opportunity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. We're proud to be building a diverse and inclusive environment that encourages collaboration, creativity, and growth. Whatever your background, please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day.
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What We Do
Healthie is a SaaS company that offers infrastructure for virtual-first healthcare organizations launch & scale provider services. We work with digital health organizations dedicated to modernizing the healthcare experience and improve patient outcomes. We make it easy for organizations to streamline operations and build longitudinal relationships with clients.
Our software provides a turnkey solution for innovative companies to launch provider services, and our API prevents D2C Healthcare companies from having to re-create core healthcare infrastructure, including for: EHR system, Coaching Software, Client Engagement, Telehealth, and Insurance processing.
Healthie is HIPAA, PIPEDA, GDPR, and PCI-compliant, and our cloud-based platform comes with a web and mobile (iOS & Android) app for organization administrators, providers, and their clients.
Healthie is a privately held company headquartered in New York. We are hiring! Working at Healthie means you serve thousands of innovative health tech companies. Healthie's technology serves as the backbone for incredible virtual-first organizations that build long-term relationships with their customers, contributing to a better healthcare system. If you're interested in joining our growing team or scheduling a demo, please visit our website: www.gethealthie.com
Why Work With Us
Healthie is unique due to its innovative culture, operational excellence, commitment to employee growth, and focus on meaningful work that is impacting the future of healthcare. Working here offers opportunities for personal and professional development, an inclusive and collaborative environment, and the chance to make a real impact.
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