Role description
Data Integration Engineer
Safely You*CANDIDATES MUST BE LOCATED IN THE UNITED STATES OR CANADA**
About SafelyYou
SafelyYou’s passionate mission is to empower safer, more person-centered care across senior living through world-leading AI, industry-changing hardware, and remote expert clinicians, significantly improving outcomes for residents while increasing peace of mind for families and reducing costs for communities.
Originating in 2015 as the doctoral research of CEO George Netscher—and inspired by his own family's experience with Alzheimer's disease—SafelyYou was spun out of UC Berkeley’s Artificial Intelligence Research Lab, one of the top five AI research groups in the world. And today, our company is solving critical challenges in senior living, from resident falls and ER visits to staffing concerns, length of stay, and NOI. All helping ensure that communities can focus on improved care for residents while still reaching their financial goals.
SafelyYou is one of five most innovative fall technologies referenced in the Senate Falls Report (2019), a winner of the McKnight’s Tech Partner of the Year, and has been named to Fortune’s Impact 20 list, which recognizes companies making people’s lives better through innovation.
Your Role at SafelyYou
As a Data Integration Engineer at SafelyYou, you will be the subject matter expert behind how our internal systems communicate with the outside world. You will design, build, and operate robust integration pipelines that transform data between our internal event-based architecture and the diverse formats required by our third-party API partners. You will play a critical role in scaling our external data exchange capabilities, handling complex payload mappings, and ensuring that our systems gracefully manage failure modes at scale.
You will work closely with R&D architects, other data engineers, backend developers, and cross-functional teams to define and implement integration patterns for webhooks, external REST APIs, and partner platforms. Additionally, you will own technical communications for integrations, managing Go-Live data backfills and writing clear API specifications for customer-facing documents.
This is a fully remote role. You are expected to work with minimal guidance, act as a subject matter expert for integration patterns, and proactively identify opportunities for architectural improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
Design, build, and operate robust integration pipelines to ingest data from and push data to third-party APIs, webhooks, and custom endpoints.
Transform, normalize, and map data payloads between SafelyYou’s internal schema and external partner specifications (e.g., JSON/XML schemas, third-party platforms).
Performing validation on data received from third-parties, segregating data that fails validation, and automating processes with third-parties to resolve anomalies.
Manage and execute complex data backfills and Go-Live integration pipelines for new customer rollouts.
Write and maintain clear, high-quality technical documentation and API specifications for both internal engineering teams and external partners.
Triage, troubleshoot, and gracefully handle integration failure modes, rate limits, and edge cases at scale, building resilient retry mechanisms.
Scale our ability to support 3rd party integrations by building systems and tooling to allow non-engineer users to configure, monitor, and perform backfills for third-party integrations.
Ensure data quality, consistency, and reliability by developing automated tests and validating payload outputs with ongoing pipeline monitoring.
Work in an Agile environment to plan, track, and improve the delivery of new integration features and products.
Collaborate with customer support, operations, and product teams to provide technical support and participate in on-call rotation as needed.
Requirements:
5+ years of professional experience in software, backend, or data engineering, preferably in a startup environment.
Deep hands-on experience building, consuming, and operating integrations with REST APIs, webhooks, and third-party platforms.
Strong programming proficiency in Python and SQL for building reliable data transformation and integration pipelines.
Proven track record of handling complex data transformations, schema mapping, and payload normalization across disparate systems.
Experience encountering and solving API failure modes and operational challenges at scale (e.g., implementing exponential backoff, dead-letter queues, idempotency). Has seen where things fail and can recommend solutions to maintain a stable platform.
Strong verbal and written communication skills, with specific experience writing technical documentation, ADRs, or API specs.
Proactive about anticipating and addressing data ingestion issues before they impact the business.
Prioritize quality over speed. When it is done, it is really done.
The Ideal Candidate:
Proficiency with modern data stack tools, such as dbt and PySpark.
Familiarity with workflow orchestration concepts and tools, such as Airflow.
Exposure to Terraform and Cloud Infrastructure, such as AWS (Athena, RDS, EKS).
Experience with electronic health records (EHR) and associated data privacy regulations (e.g., HIPAA) is a strong plus.
Experience with HL7 data feeds and the FHIR API specification is a huge plus.
Experience with remote work and distributed, async-first engineering teams.
Why Join Us? You Can Make a Difference!
Salary Range: $165-185k base USD / $140-160k base CDN depending on experience, plus a bonus plan, stock options and benefits.
SafelyYou offers a competitive compensation package, including but not limited to:
A mission-driven company culture
Fully remote
Competitive salary & benefits, including fully paid employee premiums for Medical, Dental, and Vision
401k Program
Monthly Education, Well-being & WFH stipends
Non-accrual PTO
Growth Potential
Company Retreats
Medical & Family/Parental Leave
At SafelyYou, we believe that a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace makes us a more relevant, competitive, and resilient company. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce that celebrates diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
We value all the perspectives our team members bring to the table, and that is why we don’t look for culture fit, but culture add. We want to hear from YOU! We encourage you to apply even if you do not fit 100% of the technical requirements.