--- title: 'Staff Data Engineer at Unite Us' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-data-engineer-unite-us-new-york-0jm5029p9w4k' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-17' --- # Staff Data Engineer at Unite Us - **Company:** Unite Us - **Location:** New York, NY - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-10-12 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/uniteus/jobs/8883338002 ## Job description Unite USA Inc. dba Unite Us Staff Data Engineer Location: New York, New York Job Description The Staff Data Engineer will lead enterprise-wide data architecture strategy and long-term data platform design. Evaluate and approve major technical designs, including establishing engineering best practices. Serve as technical advisor to leadership and influence product/data roadmap. Champion data governance, democratization, and scalable data standards. Work with cross functional teams including the Solutions Delivery, Business Intelligence; Predictive Analytics, and Enterprise Services teams to assist with and support any data-related technical issues and/or needs. Analyze, manipulate, and process large sets of data using statistical software. Develop ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) and data pipeline solutions using Airflow, DBT, Python, and Snowflake to load a data warehouse. Design and manage ETL workflows to support large-scale ingestion, transformation, and loading of data. Build and scale CI/CD pipelines and enterprise-wide data quality frameworks. Test internal data pipelines for reliability and performance. Test, validate, and reformulate models to ensure accuracy. Complete and improve monitoring and validation processes to maintain pipeline reliability and data accuracy. Write new functions or applications in programming languages to conduct analysis. Build streaming pipelines with Confluent Kafka for event-driven processing. Build dashboards and monitors for pipeline health, freshness, uptime, and SLA compliance. Apply data modeling to extract and analyze information from large structured and unstructured datasets. Telecommuting available anywhere in the United States. Annual salary between $175,000 - $200,000. Job Requirements Requires at least a Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Data Science, Applied Computer Science, Computer Science or a related field. Must possess 4 years (48 months) of experience with all of the following: (a) developing and optimizing scalable pipelines using Apache Airflow and Python; (b) building streaming pipelines using Kafka; (c) tuning big data systems using Kafka and Hive; (d) using Spark to create jobs for batch and streaming analytics; (e) writing and using complex SQL queries to retrieve data from data warehouses for analysis and reporting (f) using AWS for data processing and large-volume workloads; (g) automating deployment of code and processes using Python; (h) working with cloud-based infrastructure; (i) building Datadog dashboards to monitor pipelines and system performance; (j) using Docker and Kubernetes to improve and validate containerization and automation reliability; (k) implementing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) using Jenkins; and (l) utilizing all of the following: GitHub as a code repository, Windows and Linux operating systems. Experience may be gained concurrently. Telecommuting available anywhere in the United States. Benefits: Paid Parental Leave; 401K Match; Flexible Vacation Time; Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage; Commuter Benefits. ## About Unite Us ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Unite Us provides a software platform that connects healthcare, government, and community-based organizations to coordinate whole-person care through closed-loop referrals and data sharing. - **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage: Growth/Series unknown, but raised over $250M+) - **Headquarters**: New York, NY (offices also in Raleigh, NC) - **Founded**: 2012 (as Unite US, later rebranded to Unite Us) - **Founders**: Taylor Justice (Co-Founder & CEO) and (unnamed co-founder, per public sources) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Healthcare technology (HealthTech) – specifically social care coordination and community health infrastructure. - **Target customers**: Hospitals & health systems, managed care & Medicaid plans, local/state governments, public health agencies, community-based organizations (CBOs), and nonprofits. - **Mission statement**: “To enable collaboration to help people live healthier, more fulfilling lives” (careers page) and “transform how communities care for their people” (about page). ## Products & Services - **Unite Us Platform**: An end-to-end, closed-loop referral system that allows partners to predict needs (using real-world data), deliver services (coordinate care across sectors), and pay for services (automate revenue cycle/payments to CBOs). It includes analytics to prove impact and measure ROI. The platform is described as the “only end-to-end platform” that helps identify needs earlier, target interventions, and track results. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Over $250M+ in total funding (as of 2025, per company website) and over 93.6M needs addressed (as of 2025). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not listed in detail on the provided pages, but partners include health systems, government agencies, and community organizations. Listed as a certified Great Place to Work and awarded on TIME’s World’s Top HealthTech Companies 2025. - **Growth Signals**: - 1.5M+ services delivered and closed 2.3M referrals (as of 2025) - 700% increase in case manager reach reported by customers - 13 minutes average closed-loop referral completion time - 88% of needs met nationwide - <2% claims denial rate (vs 15-18% industry average) - 96% of something (metric listed on site but not fully visible) - 652 U.S.-based employees (medium-sized company) as of January 2025 - Named a 2025 Great Place to Work and Top HealthTech Company by TIME - Won Fortune Best Workplaces in Health Care (2022, 2023, 2024) ## Competitive Advantages - **First-mover and network effects**: The company hosts the “nation’s largest network of community-based health and social services” (as claimed on Great Place to Work profile). The closed-loop referral system is described as “the first of its kind” and prioritizes privacy and dignity. - **End-to-end integration**: Unite Us is the only platform that combines predictive analytics, service delivery, and payment/reimbursement for social care in one system, reducing fragmentation that plagues competitors. - **Large data moat**: With over 93.6M needs addressed and 2.3M referrals closed, the platform has a significant volume of real-world data to train models and improve predictive analytics. - **Recognition**: Certified Great Place to Work (82% of employees say it’s a great place to work vs 57% typical company) with high marks for feeling welcome (98%), being given responsibility (94%), and ability to take time off (95%). ## Strategic Focus - **Scaled impact**: Unite Us is focused on expanding its platform to serve more cities, counties, health systems, and states. The company aims to break down silos in real-time and deliver measurable outcomes at scale. - **Policy and reimbursement**: The platform emphasizes enabling reimbursements for community-based organizations, which is a key growth vector as value-based care and social determinants of health (SDoH) become priorities for payers and government. - **Data-driven insights**: Investments in predictive analytics to “predict needs” using real-world data, helping organizations identify risk and close gaps upstream. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-driven culture**: Employees consistently cite pride in contributing to the community (94% feel good about ways the company contributes). The company’s values include “Always Collaborate,” “Be a Good Human,” “Think Big,” and “Own It.” - **Hybrid/office locations**: Offices in New York City (217 Broadway) and Raleigh, NC (128 E. Hargett Street). Specific remote/hybrid policy not explicitly stated but open jobs suggest flexibility. - **Benefits**: - Medical, dental, and vision insurance - Unlimited virtual mental health and acute medical visits - Flexible Time Off (including volunteer days and mental health days) - 16 paid company-wide holidays - Paid parental leave (including adoptive parents) - 401(k) with employer match and immediate vesting - Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), FSAs, and commuter benefits - Employee Resource Groups (ERGs, e.g., Military Veterans) - Wellness platform subscription - Career support: financial planning, company-sponsored life/AD&D, short-term disability, accident insurance, pet insurance - **Engineering culture**: Open roles include Data Engineer and Senior Data Engineer, suggesting a strong data engineering team building the core analytics and platform infrastructure. - **Recognition**: Won Fortune Best Workplaces in Health Care (2022-2024) and certified Great Place to Work (2025) ## Sources 1. [Unite Us Official Website](https://uniteus.com/) 2. [Unite Us Careers Page](https://uniteus.com/our-careers/) 3. [Unite Us Job Board (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/uniteus) 4. [Unite Us About Page](https://uniteus.com/about-unite-us/) 5. 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