Full-Time
Staff Backend Engineer
Python
Updated on 6/18/2025
Garner Health
201-500 employees
Healthcare data platform improving patient outcomes
Compensation Overview
$230k - $250k/yr
Senior, Expert
New York, NY, USA
This is a hybrid role and will require up to 3 days in Garner’s New York City office.
- 6+ years of professional experience in software development, with a focus on building and maintaining scalable software
- 3+ years of experience designing and implementing data pipelines
- Strong understanding of core Computer Science fundamentals
- Proficiency in Python and SQL
- Expertise with deploying and managing applications in Kubernetes environments
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration tools (Argo preferred)
- Strong background in developing and integrating back-end APIs, especially within distributed, event driven architectures
- Hands-on experience with relational databases, with a preference for PostgreSQL
- Experienced working in an Agile environment with well-versed tools and practices
- Familiarity with data warehousing concepts and technologies
- Build and maintain data pipelines that power our business
- Collaborate across disciplines to provide timely and accurate information
- Protect our users’ privacy and security through best practices
- Support our production operations and come up with solutions to lighten the operational load
- Design and optimize for the long term while moving fast and iteratively deliver for the short term
- Ideate on new features and work with data to find new insights
- Research and work with the latest tools and technologies
- Collaborate using our tech stack, including Python, AWS, NATS, Terraform, Postgres, ElasticSearch, Snowflake, and Kubernetes.
Garner Health improves healthcare experiences by using a vast database of over 60 billion medical records to help individuals and families find the best healthcare providers. Their app and Concierge team guide users to in-network providers who are known for accurate diagnoses and better patient outcomes. Additionally, Garner offers a reimbursement service that covers out-of-pocket medical costs for visits to these top providers, including copays and surgeries. For corporate clients, Garner provides a solution that enhances employee benefits and reduces costs without altering existing plans. This approach allows companies to offer better value-based care while saving money. Garner's goal is to leverage big data to enhance patient outcomes and lower healthcare expenses for both individuals and businesses.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$61.3M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2019
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Increased telehealth adoption enhances Garner's platform for remote, high-quality care access.
- The rise of personalized medicine aligns with Garner's data-driven provider identification approach.
- Growing consumer-driven healthcare supports Garner's model of empowering individuals with data.
What critics are saying
- Increased competition from similar healthcare data analytics companies threatens Garner's market share.
- Stricter data privacy regulations may limit Garner's access to necessary datasets.
- Direct-to-consumer healthcare apps could divert individual clients from Garner's employer-based solutions.
What makes Garner Health unique
- Garner Health leverages the largest claims database in the U.S. for accurate provider recommendations.
- The company offers a unique reimbursement service for out-of-pocket medical costs.
- Garner's non-disruptive corporate solutions enrich benefits without changing plans or networks.
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↑ 2%NEW YORK, May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Garner Health Technology, Inc. today announced that its doctor search tool has been recognized with an honorable mention in Fast Company's 2023 World Changing Ideas Awards. This annual Fast Company award celebrates "the sustainable designs, innovative products, bold social initiatives, and other creative projects that are changing the way we work, live, and interact.The world-changing benefits of Garner's doctor search tool are particularly important for functionally uninsured employees who are burdened with deductibles so high they cannot afford to pay for medical care. Garner's applications help improve health outcomes and lower costs for both employees and employers by transforming new healthcare transparency data and other data sources into the largest healthcare database in the nation.This year's World Changing Ideas Awards showcase 45 winners, 216 finalists and more than 300 honorable mentions,with health, climate, energy and AI among the most popular categories. A panel of Fast Company editors and reporters selected winners and finalists from a pool of more than 2,200 entries across urban design, education, nature, politics, technology, corporate social responsibility and more. Several new categories were added this year, including rapid response, crypto and blockchain, agriculture and workplace
Marathon Health, LLC has partnered with Garner Health to leverage their data-driving physician analytics to help guide patient choice.
Garner Health ™, a health tech company that uses data science to enable personalized provider recommendations, today announced a strategic investment from Optum Ventures, the independent venture arm of Optum and part of UnitedHealth Group.
The company is serving 10,000 members in more than 30 states
There’s been a growing movement towards outcome-based healthcare payments as we look to value-based care and providing the best care possible. This starts with selecting quality providers. Garner Health is a technology-driven platform that analyzes aggregate medical data to determine who the highest-quality physicians are by specialty, procedure and geography. Employees of companies that are partnered with Garner Health are able to go through this curated selection, filtered for availability and network considerations for upcoming medical visits. The platform also features a concierge service available through phone, chat, or email to provide additional guidance, if necessary. If the employee opts to use one of the preferred providers, then employers will cover all or a portion of any out-of-pocket expenses. The incentivization of employees in the short term to visit quality providers results in lower costs for the employer in the long-term, amounting to savings the company’s estimated to be at least 10%. Garner does not maintain any commercial relationship with healthcare providers and its determinations are completely on the basis of past treatment data, eliminating any bias or impropriety in the recommendations. AlleyWatch caught up with Founder and CEO Nick Reber (prev. Oscar Health and Bridgewater) to learn more about this innovative model to address rising healthcare costs, the company’s future plans, and latest round of funding from investors that include Founders Fund, Maverick Ventures, and Thrive Capital.