Forward Deployed, Senior Software Engineer

Komodo Health • Chicago, IL

22h • Hybrid

About The Position

At Komodo Health, our mission is to reduce the global burden of disease. And we believe that smarter use of data is essential to this mission. That’s why we built the Healthcare Map — the industry’s largest, most complete, precise view of the U.S. healthcare system — by combining de-identified, real-world patient data with innovative algorithms and decades of clinical experience. The Healthcare Map serves as our foundation for a powerful suite of software applications, helping us answer healthcare’s most complex questions for our partners. Across the healthcare ecosystem, we’re helping our clients unlock critical insights to track detailed patient behaviors and treatment patterns, identify gaps in care, address unmet patient needs, and reduce the global burden of disease.
As we pursue these goals, it remains essential to us that we stay grounded in our values: be awesome, seek growth, deliver “wow,” and enjoy the ride. At Komodo, you will be joining a team of ambitious, supportive Dragons with diverse backgrounds but a shared passion to deliver on our mission to reduce the burden of disease — and enjoy the journey along the way.
The Opportunity at Komodo Health
Our Forward Deployed Engineering team is a key part of the Revenue Organization, serving as technical experts who work directly with customers. We leverage our deep product knowledge to solve complex challenges, ensuring successful implementations and driving customer satisfaction. By bridging the gap between our engineering and sales teams, we play a critical role generating revenue and improving the customer experience.
As a Forward Deployed, Senior Software Engineer, you will lead our initiatives to build custom solutions that allow us to fully unlock the potential of our healthcare data map and platform capabilities - joining both together to advance Komodo's full-stack strategy. Your work will be instrumental in creating and implementing algorithms, API’s, and custom features that enable our customer's use cases. You will closely collaborate with Data and Product teams to introduce and educate others on best-in-class rigorous methodologies that address domain-specific problems to execute deployed solutions. You will foster a culture of trust, transparency, and technical expertise that is founded on constructive feedback and open evolution in thinking and approaches.
Looking back on your first 12 months at Komodo Health, you will have accomplished…
Managed, coordinated, and delivered on key projects that advance our ability to bring new Technical and Data Services to market.
Developed a deep understanding of healthcare-specific challenges and introduced innovative algorithms and software techniques that address them.
Partnered with Product, Data, and Engineering teams to develop technical requirements, project roadmaps, and the delivery of robust solutions.
Actively collaborated with team members to solicit requirements and rigorously take command of them.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in software and data or related fields in healthcare and technology.
• Extensive experience building scalable, best-in-class solutions that combine theoretical rigor with implementation efficiency.
• Demonstrated record of thought leadership and solution design that spans from high-level conceptual frameworks to detailed execution plans.
• Strong ability to communicate clearly and openly with both technical and non-technical teams.
• Knowledge of large-scale data and computational technologies.
• Experience with privacy-preserving database solutions.
• Proficiency in programming languages, such as Python or equivalent.
• Demonstrated experience in API-driven Engineering and or operations.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in life sciences, biotech or healthcare.
• Experience in product or program management.
• Experience interacting with, managing, or building with AI agentic workflows
• Judgment & Creativity: Applies AI strategically, knowing how to use the right tools at the right time to solve problems or generate new ideas. Uses AI to accelerate feedback loops, test ideas, and make informed decisions faster.
• Curiosity & Initiative: Demonstrates curiosity and initiative in exploring new AI tools and workflows relevant to their role. Has developed or shared AI-enhanced workflows, automations, or prompts with others.
• Integration & Productivity: Brings a reflexive AI mindset and uses AI as a natural part of their process to iterate, research, and deliver better work. Regularly leverages AI tools such as Notion AI, Perplexity, Claude, or Microsoft Copilot to improve speed, clarity, or creative output.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical subject matter expert, partnering directly with customers to resolve complex issues by designing and implementing technical solutions to ensure they achieve success with our platform.
• Serve as a crucial liaison between customers and our engineering teams, helping to shape our product roadmap based on real-world feedback.
• Provide technical and engineering leadership and support the development of new technologies within the team and across the enterprise.
• Mentor and guide more junior engineers, providing technical leadership and fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
• Solve a range of complex technical problems or issues, analyzing possible solutions and assessing each using standard procedures.

Benefits

• comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• flexible time off and holidays
• 401(k) with company match
• disability insurance and life insurance
• leaves of absence in accordance with applicable state and local laws and regulations and company policy

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed