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SDE - Manager

Health Catalyst

Hyderabad, INonsitePosted Jun 1, 2026

At a glance

Highlights

  • Onsite Hyderabad
  • Healthcare impact at national scale
  • Opportunity to lead a small engineering team

Heads up

  • On-call rotation
  • Small team with broad responsibilities

Why this role might suit you

A seasoned Java engineer with 7‑8 years of experience can lead a small, mission‑critical team building healthcare analytics platforms, leveraging cloud, microservices, and modern DevOps tooling while shaping product direction.

Skills

javamicroservicesreactangularci-cdgcpazureprometheusgrafanaelkjenkinsgithub-actionsgitlab-cisql

About the role

Join one of the nation’s leading and most impactful health care performance improvement companies. Over the years, Health Catalyst has achieved and documented clinical, operational, and financial improvements for many of the nation’s leading healthcare organizations. We are also increasingly serving international markets. Our mission is to be the catalyst for massive, measurable, data-informed healthcare improvement through:

Data: integrate data in a flexible, open & scalable platform to power healthcare’s digital transformation

Analytics: deliver analytic applications & services that generate insight on how to measurably improve

Expertise: provide clinical, financial & operational experts who enable & accelerate improvement

Engagement: attract, develop and retain world-class team members by being a best place to work

Role: SDE - Manager

Location: Hyderabad, India

The healthcare industry is the next great frontier of opportunity for software development, and Health Catalyst is one of the most dynamic and influential companies in this space. We are working on solving national-level healthcare problems, and this is your chance to improve the lives of millions of people, including your family and friends. Health Catalyst is a fast-growing company that values smart, hardworking, and humble individuals. Each product team is a small, mission-critical team focused on developing innovative tools to support Catalyst’s mission to improve healthcare performance, cost, and quality.

Health Catalyst is expanding and maintains a large suite of Improvement Apps that contribute to healthcare analytics and process improvement solutions. This includes products that manage the care of health system populations, better serve patients at the point of care, reduce health system costs, and reduce clinician workload.

Job Summary:

As a manager, you will be working with diverse Improvement Apps, software engineering team designing, developing, and maintaining various platforms that serve internal HCAT team members, clinicians, and patients. You will rely on Test-Driven Development to safely enhance and refactor our system, shipping production code multiple times per week. And you will go to bed each night with the comfort that your code is improving outcomes for patients.

If you love…

Help drive clarity and prototype individual features or problems

Knowledge of architecture patterns and the ability to design and complete features / tasks that are 50-60% well defined.

Can discern where gaps can be filled in without consulting a Product Manager or another programmer and can judge when a consultation is needed.

Work is reviewed with the occasional need for material direction or implementation changes

Seeks and provides guidance via PR reviews, pair-programming and other interactions with Engineers and Product Managers

It is second nature to develop high code quality standards balanced with the needs of real-world customer timelines.

Possesses a passion and drive to deliver exceptional products and follows established patterns and approaches within existing code bases with ease.

Takes ownership of learning and growth

Capitalizes on internal and external opportunities for learning.

Identifies gaps in knowledge/skills and seeks ways to close those gaps (self-guided learning, pairing, seeking guidance for yourself and developing guidance for less experienced members of the team)

Periodic On Call Rotation

Ability to communicate with Customer Success about customer issues that are escalated to Engineering and help quantify customer impact.

Can Respond quickly to operational emergencies, find short term resolutions and plan long term fixes to avoid similar issues in the future.

What you own in the role:

Lead a small team of developers and DevOps engineers, providing mentorship and technical guidance.

Developing the complex module and guiding the junior developers

Implement monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or similar tools.

Work closely with product managers and stakeholders to define project requirements and timelines.

Filtering and “cleaning” data by reviewing reports and performance indicators to locate and correct code problems.

Manage and automate deployment pipelines using CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD).

Locating and defining new process improvement opportunities.

What you bring to this role:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience preferred.

Strong working knowledge of Java, Microservices, any frontend language such as react/angular

Strong working knowledge of CI/CD

Strong knowledge of and experience with GCP/Azure

Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy, in a timely manner

Adept at constructing efficient queries, writing reports and presenting findings

Ability to manage multiple and simultaneous responsibilities and to prioritize scheduling of work

Strong verbal and written communication skills

7 to 8 years' work experience as a Java app developer

BS or MS in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Information Management, or a similar field

An understanding of healthcare data is a plus, but not a requirement

You may also bring:

Experience with cloud infrastructure and architecture patterns, either Azure or AWS preferred.

Software development experience within healthcare IT and understands key data models (clinical, claims, financial, etc.) and interoperability standards such as HL7v2, CDA, EMR, and FHIR

Knowledge of healthcare compliance and how it applies to Application Security

Agile/Scrum software development practices

Business Intelligence or Data warehousing experience

Preferred Experience and Education:

BS/BA or MS in Computer science, information systems, or other technology/science degree.

A minimum of 7 – 8 years of experience in building commercial software, SaaS, or digital platforms.

The above statements describe the general nature and level of work being performed in this job function. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, and indeed additional responsibilities may be assigned by Health Catalyst.

Studies show that candidates from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for roles if they don’t have 100% of the qualifications shown in the job posting. While each of our roles have core requirements, please thoughtfully consider your skills and experience and decide if you are interested in the position. If you feel you may be a good fit for the role, even if you don’t meet all of the qualifications, we hope you will apply. If you feel you are lacking the core requirements for this position, we encourage you to continue exploring our careers page for other roles for which you may be a better fit.

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