About the role
Who we are Zus is a shared health data platform designed to accelerate healthcare data interoperability by providing easy-to-use patient data via API, embedded components, and direct EHR integrations. Founded in 2021 by Jonathan Bush, co-founder and former CEO of athenahealth, Zus partners with HIEs and other data networks to aggregate patient clinical history and then translates that history into user-friendly information at the point of care. Zus's mission is to catalyze healthcare's greatest inventors by maximizing the value of patient insights - so that they can build up, not around. What we’re looking for... We are looking for an eager software engineering co-op to help build the next generation of healthtech tools. This co-op will be part of the Data Acquisition team. This team is responsible for collecting health data from a broad range of internal and external sources and making that data useful for users of the Zus platform. The engineer joining this team will help build software that interacts with external health data networks and first party systems to collect information about our patients and load it into the Zus data stores at high volume, as well as services used by customers and internal stakeholders to request that data. The ideal candidate will be excited to take on the challenge of unifying diverse health care data sources to bring a clear picture of patient needs to our customers in ways that the developers of said data sources never thought or cared about. You will work on data pipelines that operate on large scale data using a variety of AWS services ( Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, etc). You will also work on RESTful services that are used both internally and externally. Go is our language of choice, although we also have some components written in JavaScript/TypeScript and Python. The team is responsible for deploying, maintaining, and operating its pipelines and services. \n As part of our team, you will... Roll up your sleeves and build production-ready technology Collaborate with your colleagues to build high quality solutions that scale You are a good fit because you demonstrate... The ability to overcome challenging obstacles independently. The self-awareness to recognize when outside assistance is needed. The desire to learn about building software in a professional environment The willingness to incorporate feedback into your work The ability to write clean code A love of solving complex problems A self-starter attitude that shows that you are ready for the fast, and sometimes unstructured, nature of an early startups It would be awesome if you were Show an interest in working with healthcare data and APIs Have prior Internship/Co-Op experience using technology like AWS, RESTful services, Go, Python, Typescript or other similar tools Other Requirements.... Must be located in the Boston, MA area and willing to join us in the office 3 days per week Must be able to work on a co-op from July through December \n $28 - $28 an hour \n We will offer you... • Competitive compensation that reflects the value you bring to the team • Opportunity to work alongside a passionate team that is determined to help change the world (and have fun doing it).