Data Engineer

Definitive Healthcare is a global healthcare technology company that provides leading intelligence on the healthcare provider market.
We are on an incredibly exciting trajectory and have more than doubled in size in the past 2 years, with over 650 employees. We have been consistently honored by multiple surveys as a Best Place to Work in the Boston area. Our motivated and high-energy workforce is collaborative, kind, and engaged, which has led to exceptional retention rates.
Monocl recently joined the Definitive Healthcare enterprise as well in 2020. It empowers life science professionals with the complete global expert solution designed to drive impactful outreach and strategic engagement
Monocl’s mission is to connect all stakeholders in life sciences and healthcare through software - thereby enabling our customers to target and engage the right opinion leaders, medical experts, and customers anywhere in the world. We are guided by a strong vertical focus on life sciences and healthcare, combined with a relentless drive to address great customer challenges. We truly believe that software eats the world.
This is your chance to be a part of a journey where you can develop a product that will truly affect and transform the life science industry. We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our amazing Engineering team in Göteborg where you will spend your days working with our data pipeline and ensuring a high quality. Are you motivated and passionate about building scalable data platforms? Do you want to join a team where you will be surrounded by equally driven and creative colleagues? Then we would love to get to know you better!

What you'll be doing:
In the role as Data Engineer you will join our amazing Engineering team where you will collaborate closely with experienced analysts and data scientist as well as teams across Monocl to integrate and develop our core datasets. Monocl offers a unique and diverse work environment with truly ambitious colleagues that will help you reach new limits.

You will have the support of your highly talented colleagues with the responsibility to:
Work in a collaborative team of analysts and data scientists to develop smart analytical capabilities and data products
Take ownership of our core data lake and data pipelines, powering metrics, analyses and machine learning models
Develop data pipelines and integrate data from everything we do into one coherent source of truth
Take responsibility for quality of solutions, testing and that best practices are being used
Take responsibility for running our Spark cluster efficiently and in a cost efficient way

We have a solid and mature Big Data architecture hosted in AWS Cloud and we work in an open source environment, primarily with Java, Spark and Scala.

Who you are:
To be successful in the role you need to understand a wide variety of data and domains, and use your expertise and creativity to bring simplicity to complex problems. You have a sharp technical mind and feel passionate about working in a product-based business and with building data platforms. You are comfortable working independently and with smaller teams.
You have experience of building data pipelines using Apache Spark
You have experience of automating and monitoring workflows
You have good knowledge of Java
You are used to working in Unix

Bonus qualifications that makes you stand out from the rest:
Experience working with cloud tech, specifically experience in AWS and its plethora of services
Experience of working in Big Data development projects and workflow management such as Apache Airflow
Strong experience in handling and fetching everything from traditional, relational data to semi- or unstructured data
Knowledge in Elasticsearch and Postgres
Knowledge in Python and/or Scala
A dedication to testing, code review and other quality-oriented practices and supporting workflows are also highly valued

Why we love Monocl, and why you will too!
Industry leading products
Work hard, and have fun doing it
Incredibly fast growth means limitless opportunity
Flexible and dynamic culture
Work alongside some of the most talented and dedicated teammates
Definitive Cares, our community service group, gives all of us a chance to give back
Competitive benefits package including 4000 SEK/year personal wellness grant, private health insurance etc.

What our Employees are saying about us on Glassdoor:
“Great Work atmosphere, great work life balance, excellent company to work for, amazing top notch product, incredible customer service, lots of tools to help you succeed.”
-Business Development Manager
“Great team. Amazing growth. Employees are treated very well.”
-Research Analyst
“I have waited 36 years to work at a dream job for a dream company and I am so happy to have finally got there.”
-Profile Analyst
If you don’t fit all of these qualifications, but believe you’re still a great fit, feel free to apply and tell us why in your cover letter.
How do I apply?
This position will remain open as long as this ad remains on our website. When submitting your application, make sure to highlight and demonstrate past relevant achievements that you are proud of and make sure to include relevant references. We continuously look through applications. The applicants that best match our requirements will be contacted for a phone interview before a follow-up interview.


Definitive Hiring Philosophy
Definitive Healthcare is an equal opportunity employer that celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace with equal opportunity for all applicants and teammates. Our goal is to recruit the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool regardless of race, color, religion, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other status. If you’re interested in working in a fast growing, exciting working environment – we encourage you to apply!