Healthcare.com · 4 hours ago
Sr Data Scientist
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior LevelHealthCare.com is one of America’s fastest-growing insurtech companies, revolutionizing how consumers shop for health insurance. The Data Scientist will own and evolve the core production bidding system, collaborating with stakeholders to design solutions and implement machine learning models that impact the business.
FinTechHealth CareInsurTechInternet
Responsibilities
Own and operate machine learning models that run in production, including monitoring, debugging, and iterative improvement
Develop, train, and optimize models used in a real-time or near-real-time bidding and decisioning system
Work with stakeholders to clarify ambiguous problems, define success metrics, and translate business needs into technical solutions
Design and implement feature engineering pipelines, balancing model performance, latency, and maintainability
Write production-quality Python code (not just notebooks) and collaborate with engineering on deployment, CI/CD, and system design
Analyze model behavior using logs, metrics, and offline analysis to identify performance issues and opportunities
Contribute to data pipelines and infrastructure where needed (e.g., ETL, materialized tables, model inputs)
Make thoughtful tradeoffs between something that is 'theoretically optimal' and something that is reliable, fast, and shippable
Qualification
Required
Strong Python experience, including writing code that runs in production systems
Solid SQL skills and experience working with analytical databases (Snowflake or similar)
Hands-on experience training and tuning tree-based models (e.g., LightGBM, XGBoost, CatBoost) on real, messy data
Experience deploying, maintaining, or owning ML models beyond experimentation (APIs, batch jobs, or streaming systems)
Comfort working across dev, staging, and production environments
Ability to operate with limited guidance: you can ask good questions, propose solutions, and move work forward independently
Preferred
Experience at a smaller company or on a small team where you wore multiple hats
Depth in one or more of: Gradient boosted models and performance optimization, Feature engineering for tabular data, Data engineering / ETL design, Model monitoring, evaluation, and debugging in production
Experience improving model latency, reliability, or cost—not just accuracy
Prior technical leadership or informal mentoring experience
Familiarity with Airflow, Kubernetes, or cloud infrastructure
Benefits
Opportunity to work from home
Excellent work environment
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Up to 15 days of paid time off
11 company observed holidays
8 weeks of paid parental leave
401k plan with company match
Life insurance
Professional growth opportunity
Most importantly, an inclusive company culture established by an incredible team!
Company
Healthcare.com
Healthcare.com is an insurtech platform that allows users to analyze health insurance options that are available in their area.
Founded in 2006
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Healthcare.com has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (5)
2024 (8)
2023 (9)
2022 (6)
2020 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$244MKey Investors
Hildred Capital PartnersOaktree Capital ManagementLink Ventures
2022-02-08Series C· $31.5M
2021-12-13Series C· $50M
2021-12-13Debt Financing· $130M
Leadership Team
Sean Taylor
Chief Executive Officer
Howard Yeh
COO and Co-Founder
Recent News
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