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Datavant, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Barcelona, Spain

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Datavant is at the forefront of revolutionizing healthcare through its trusted data collaboration platform. Our mission is to make the world’s health data secure, accessible, and actionable, providing essential data solutions to a diverse range of organizations including providers, health plans, researchers, and life sciences companies. From facilitating individual patient requests for medical records to driving the AI revolution in healthcare, Datavanters are instrumental in shaping the future of data connectivity and its application in improving health outcomes.
• By joining Datavant, you become part of a dynamic and highly collaborative team dedicated to creating transformative change within the healthcare industry. We are actively building our Life Sciences Tech Hub in Barcelona and are looking for talented, product-oriented, and impact-driven technical professionals to help shape the future of healthcare technology.
• This is a unique opportunity for experienced Software Engineers of all levels to contribute to a growing hub, taking on meaningful ownership, tackling deep technical challenges, and helping to establish the engineering standards as the team expands. You will be working on cutting-edge solutions alongside a high-caliber team, developing products that address complex, significant problems at scale.
• As a Software Engineer within our Life Sciences Tech Hub, you will play a pivotal role in designing and building sophisticated systems. These systems will enable secure, privacy-preserving access to high-quality healthcare data, utilized by pharmaceutical companies, biotech innovators, and research organizations globally. Your contributions will directly support the development of novel therapies, accelerate clinical trials, and ultimately improve patient outcomes by ensuring data interoperability, scalability, and trustworthiness.
• Datavant’s Life Sciences technology is crucial for advancing clinical research, generating real-world evidence, enhancing pharmacovigilance, and fostering data collaboration across the entire healthcare ecosystem. We are seeking individuals who are curious, collaborative, and eager to make a tangible impact.
• At Datavant, careers offer the chance to apply your technical expertise and problem-solving skills to a mission-driven organization: enabling every healthcare decision to be powered by the right data, at the right time, in the right format. We are looking for individuals who are not just problem-solvers, but game-changers, innovators, dreamers, and doers – people ready to drive progress and build upon our success.
• For Senior Software Engineers, this role involves end-to-end project ownership. You will be responsible for shaping technical designs, building scalable and reliable services, collaborating closely with product managers and cross-functional teams, and contributing to the strengthening of engineering practices as our Barcelona hub grows.
• Your work will involve leveraging Datavant’s core technologies, demonstrating fluency across the technology stack, and applying architectural experience to design systems that are scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable.
• You will contribute to the development and enhancement of our data collaboration platform, focusing on areas such as data ingestion, transformation, security, and access control.
• Collaborate with product management to understand user needs and translate them into technical requirements and robust software solutions.
• Design and implement APIs and services that facilitate secure data sharing and analysis for our clients in the life sciences sector.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code in languages such as Java, Python, TypeScript, or Scala.
• Develop and maintain data pipelines using big data technologies like Apache Spark, Databricks, and Snowflake.
• Contribute to the architecture and development of our front-end applications using frameworks like React.
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems.
• Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge with the team.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry best practices, and advocate for their adoption where appropriate.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of our development processes and tooling.
• Work with infrastructure and operations teams to deploy and manage applications on AWS, utilizing Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Engage with AI tooling such as Codex and Claude Code to enhance development efficiency and explore new possibilities.
• Utilize configuration tools like Terraform and Pulumi for infrastructure as code.
• Uphold Datavant’s commitment to data privacy and security in all aspects of your work.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning within the engineering team.
• Help mentor junior engineers and contribute to the overall growth and development of the engineering organization in Barcelona.
• Drive technical excellence and set a high bar for engineering quality and execution.
• Be a key contributor to building a world-class engineering team in a rapidly growing company.
• This role offers a significant opportunity to impact the future of healthcare data and technology, working on challenging problems with a talented and passionate team.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience as a Software Engineer, with a strong understanding of software development principles and best practices.
• Proficiency in at least one of the following programming languages: Java, Python, TypeScript, or Scala.
• Experience with big data processing technologies such as Apache Spark, Databricks, or Snowflake.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, particularly AWS, and containerization technologies like Kubernetes.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure software solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with front-end frameworks like React is a plus.
• Familiarity with database technologies (e.g., MySQL) and version control systems (e.g., GitHub) is beneficial.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive and equitable salary.
• Hybrid work model with two days per week in our Gràcia office.
• Daily in-office lunch stipend and access to a fully stocked kitchen.
• Comprehensive private health insurance, including out-of-network reimbursement options.
• 25 days of annual paid leave.
• Six-week “Work from Anywhere” policy.
• Flexible remuneration with Cobee (Restaurant, Transportation, Nursery).

Skills & Technologies

Python

TypeScript

Java

Scala

React

Hybrid

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About Datavant, Inc.

Datavant operates a secure health-data connectivity platform enabling hospitals, payers, life-science firms, and analytics companies to link de-identified patient records across disparate systems while ensuring HIPAA compliance. Its technology uses tokenization and privacy-preserving record linkage to support real-world evidence studies, population health analytics, and clinical trials without exposing personal information.

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