Senior Data Engineer

About Us: Carefeed is the platform senior living and long-term care providers use to bring order, clarity, and calm to their day. By replacing paper, calls, and disconnected tools with an all-in-one platform, Carefeed digitizes and automates the work that takes teams away from residents and families.

About the Opportunity: Carefeed is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to build our data infrastructure and developer tooling. You’ll lead the design and implementation of our data infrastructure, help build tools to make our development teams happier and more productive, and build the underlying technology for powerful data-oriented products.  

This role is ideal for a data engineer who wants to take the next step into infrastructure management. Your biggest initial project will be to design and build a central data lake for use in 2026, as well as any pipelines (SQS, Kafka, etc) needed to populate it. As the first data engineer at Carefeed, you will lead both tooling and design decisions and the implementation of those decisions.   

This role will be a part of our Infrastructure team, and you’ll also occasionally work on typical infrastructure jobs such as observability and deployments. 

Responsibilities: 

• Design, build and operate Carefeed’s core data infrastructure, with an eye towards simplicity, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. 
• Create tools and resources for application development teams to build incredible products on top of Carefeed’s data. 
• Drive safe and effective data management practices while also contributing to engineering team productivity. For example, how can we make it easy for engineers to develop and test against production-like data without taking HIPAA-scoped information out of our secure environment? 
• Respond to production incidents, contribute to blameless postmortems, and continuously improve system reliability. 
• Collaborate across engineering, product and business operations teams as an data systems expert. 

Qualifications:  

• 5+ years of professional experience in software development 
• You have significant experience operating data infrastructure such as ETL pipelines, data warehouses and visualization tools. 
• You’ve done a bit of everything in data, from writing SQL to standing up an event stream to monitoring the health of DBT jobs. 
• You know your way around AWS. Our production systems run on ECS and Aurora, and we plan to continue using AWS for most cloud needs. 
• You’re experienced with Terraform and are excited to join a cloud infrastructure team 
• You’re comfortable working independently and owning complex problems from start to finish. 
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience). 

Work Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid) 

What You’ll Love:  

• Join a fast-growing startup making a real impact in the lives of senior care providers and their communities 
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance to support your health and well-being 
• 401(k) plan to help you plan for the future 
• Paid vacation, sick time, and company-paid holidays to support work-life balance 
• A culture that values growth and development, with opportunities to grow your career as we scale 

Carefeed provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.