Software Engineer

About Koan Health

Koan Health is a population health analytics platform built to help value-based care organizations succeed. We work with ACOs and Clinically Integrated Networks (CINs) to improve cost and quality results with confidence and measurable impact. Our core platform, Datalyst™, is a must-have population health management solution trusted by many of the nation’s leadinghealthcare organizations. To date, we’ve helped generate over $800 million in Medicare shared savings by empowering healthcare leaders with the analytics tools and insights they need to deliver better outcomes at lower cost.

The Role

We’re looking for a Software Engineer with Ruby on Rails experience to help build and evolve our core platform. You’ll work on the systems that ingest large healthcare datasets and power analytics workflows for value-based care organizations. Our engineering team works in a highly collaborative, fast-moving environment. You’ll have the opportunity to work across the stack, influence product direction, and see your work quickly move from idea to production.

What You’ll Work On

Some of the problems you might address include:

• Developing and enhancing features within our population health analytics platform
• Designing systems that process and analyze large healthcare datasets
• Boosting platform performance and reliability as our client base expands
• Collaborating with product and client teams to turn real-world healthcare challenges into software solutions
• Improving internal tools and development processes

You’ll be part of a collaborative engineering environment where thoughtful design, maintainable code, and pragmatic solutionsare valued.

Product Development

• Design, build, and maintain features within Koan Health’s analytics platform.
• Write clean, scalable, and maintainable code using Ruby on Rails and related technologies.
• Contribute to the entire software development lifecycle, from planning and design to deployment and support.

Platform Performance & Reliability

• Improve system performance, scalability, and reliability as our client base expands.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and technical issues.
• Participate in debugging and troubleshooting production issues.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with product managers and client success teams to translate user needs into technical solutions.
• Collaborate with other engineers through design discussions and knowledge sharing.
• Help shape technical architecture and development best practices.

Continuous Improvement

• Contribute to enhancing development processes, testing practices, and code quality.
• Stay up to date on emerging technologies and suggest improvements when appropriate.

What We’re Looking For
Required

• Over 5 years of professional software engineering experience
• Extensive experience developing applications with Ruby on Rails
• Proficient in working with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL)
• Skilled in building and maintaining production web applications
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a small, fast-paced team environment

Preferred

• Familiarity with healthcare data (claims, EHR, or population health data).
• Experience working with data-intensive or analytics-focused platforms.
• Knowledge of Amazon Redshift or large-scale data warehouses.
• Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Background working in startups or high-growth environments.
• Familiarity with front-end frameworks, APIs, Golang, and Git.

Join Us

At Koan Health, you’ll have the chance to develop technology that supports healthcare organizations in succeeding with value-based care and ultimately enhancing patient outcomes. If you’re passionate about solving meaningful technical challenges in healthcare, we’d love to hear from you.