What’s Promptly in a nutshell
Promptly is building the first patient-centered global evidence network, offering real world data sharing and monetization capabilities. Together with a selected network of Partners, we generate new knowledge from harmonized datasets, augmented with the collection of longitudinal patient-reported data and patient-generated digital biomarkers within a secure and privacy-preserving environment. We deliver valuable insights to leading health systems, payers and life-science companies across multiple therapeutic areas, including cardiometabolic, oncology, and immunology. Operating in 10 countries, we promote better healthcare at lower costs for thousands of new patients every day through the use of Real World Evidence.
We answer the question – is this patient treatment the best it could possibly be?
What’s our purpose
We exist to empower every patient and every health organization on the planet with evidence on the outcomes of care!
Why do we get up in the morning? Well, most healthcare professionals have chosen to work in healthcare driven by their desire to make a difference in patients’ lives. And so have we! We have chosen to follow this calling by addressing the biggest problem in healthcare: the lack of real-world evidence on the outcomes of care.
For us, society denying patients better care due to lack of access to data is unethical, in a world where technology improved so many aspects of our world. Making the right evidence available to healthcare organizations to help prevent one lost life, one care complication, one failed treatment is the moral obligation that big tech companies have – it’s our Hippocratic Oath.
At Promptly, everything we do is driven by our core purpose: to promote better healthcare at lower costs for patients every day, by making health outcomes available.
The Momentum
We are scaling fast and (certainly not) breaking things, backed by renowned VC investors. In the next two years, we will enter new markets in Europe and Latin America, reaching out to new patients with multiple healthcare needs, whom we will help live their lives to their fullest potential. Exciting stuff!
We are seeking an experienced Data Platform Engineer to design and implement our next-generation data lakehouse architecture. This role will be instrumental in building efficient data platforms on Kubernetes using open source technologies like Apache Iceberg, Trino, Spark, StarRocks, and DuckDB. You'll help power our patient-centered global evidence network with a modern, scalable data infrastructure that enables secure, privacy-preserving access to valuable healthcare insights.
What you’ll be expected to do:
- Design and implement data lakehouse architectures on Kubernetes using open source technologies
- Develop and maintain a data harmonization product using modern technologies and modern processing frameworks
- Implement and optimize table formats like Apache Iceberg for efficient data storage and querying
- Configure and tune distributed query engines such as Trino, StarRocks and DuckDB for analytical workloads
- Build data transformation workflows that ensure data quality and consistency
- Implement efficient data ingestion processes from various healthcare data sources
- Design and implement data governance and access control mechanisms
- Troubleshoot performance issues in distributed data systems
- Collaborate with data scientists and ML engineers to enable federated analytics applications
- Create infrastructure as code for automated deployment of data platform components
- Document architecture decisions and establish best practices for the data platform
Qualifications and work experience:
- Strong experience as a software developer
- Experience building production-grade applications and services
- Solid understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns, and best practices
- Strong experience in designing and implementing data lakehouses or data platforms
- Hands-on experience with Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, or similar modern table formats
- Strong knowledge of Python for data engineering tasks
- Understanding of data modeling concepts and best practices
- Proven experience working collaboratively within a multi-team environment
Nice to have:
- Experience deploying and managing data services on Kubernetes
- Proficiency with distributed SQL engines like Trino, Presto, or SparkSQL
- Experience with columnar databases or OLAP systems like StarRocks, ClickHouse, or similar
- Solid knowledge of Apache Spark for large-scale data processing
- Experience optimizing query performance in distributed systems
- Knowledge of data governance, security, and access control mechanisms
- Familiarity with healthcare data standards and privacy regulations
- Experience with federated learning or privacy-enhancing technologies
- Proficient in written and spoken English
Personality and behavioral traits
If you love to learn, if you are willing to share knowledge and would love to be part of a well-motivated and growing team, using the latest technology stack and having fun doing it, this is an opportunity you can't miss.
Position
What we offer
- Ownership, defining your own career pathway
- A unique growth opportunity, being one of the firsts on a fast-growing team that will make healthcare better and have a significant impact in people’s lives
- Fantastic working environment, with a young and enthusiastic, and talented 30+ team coming from highly reputed players from Healthcare to Unicorn Startups, and leading Multinational
- Financial benefits
- Competitive salary
- Private health insurance
- Allowance for home-office equipment
- Non-financial benefits
- Equal opportunity and inclusive environment
- Flexible work schedule
- Flexible vacation policy
- Corporate events (all-hands; retreats; ...)
What is the recruiting process like:
- There is a first interview with your future manager and/ or seasoned team members to get to know you and to give you an overview of Promptly and of the job you are applying to
- Afterwards, you will undergo a technical assessment stage, in which you will work on a test task or solve a business case.
- In same exceptional cases, a third interview might take place. Don’t worry if this happens. It’s because we have a good opinion on you, but there might be something we still need to get clear
- Finally, you will get your offer, and hopefully you’ll accept it!
- Also, we would like to notify you that during the final phases os the interview process, we may perform reference checks to validate the information provided in your application, resume, and discussed during the interview.
Our Culture & Values:
Empathy
If there is 1 rule at Promptly, this is the one – before making any judgement, put yourself in the shoes of another.
Empathy is the courage to choose to actively understand what the experience of another person could have felt like, without necessarily have experienced it ourselves.
Empathy is not a one-day journey, it is a mindset that must be continuously developed – it is an everyday choice to fight for kindness and, by doing so, to help change people, organizations, and society for the better.
If you embrace this mindset, you are a true leader @ Promptly, you are a true leader in our society.
Ownership
At Promptly, we don’t foster fixed hierarchies or top-down decision-making. If you want to hit the ground running in our team, do not wait for someone to “tell you what to do”.
Acting like an owner means that you should align with our core purpose and find the best way to deliver on it, every day.
Starting a new project, analyzing new data, reaching out to a new client, there is no area of the company you cannot have an impact in, because there is no such thing as “someone else’s problem”.
Responsibility
Working to improve healthcare is a great responsibility and what inspires us to not settle for less.
You have the responsibility to be a leader within our company. A leader is not a title. A leader is someone who delivers on our core purpose and inspires others to follow our cultural values. It is a “great power, and a great responsibility”.
Leadership comes with the awareness of one’s own strengths and weaknesses and the responsibility to use these to deliver on what you promised. It comes with the responsibility to understand the context, ask for help when needed (teamwork), and be accountable for the quality of what we produce (excellence).
Teamwork
Our team is our greatest asset, and we are fortunate to attract great people. We go the extra mile to find the best person for every role – making our team diverse in backgrounds, personal experiences, skills and knowledge.
If you are not contributing – or worse, actively destroying – teamwork, you are derailing us from our core purpose and ultimately hurting patient care.
Excellence
At Promptly, we’re recognized by society as thought leaders, contributing to research and evidence generation through technology and data science.
We put on ourselves a very high pressure to keep delivering on this role to our customers, patients and society.
Excelling at our work is a continuous process of improvement, it is not an end state. We're committed to continuous learning and self-development. So, if you have just finalized delivering a great work, rest, enjoy and go improve your work further.