🇿🇦 Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants

This fully remote full time position at Waymark is open to applicants from South Africa. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.

Job Description

About Waymark

Waymark is a mission-driven team of healthcare providers, technologists, and builders working to transform care for people with Medicaid benefits. Our community-based care teams-powered by proprietary data science and ML technologies-support care for tens of thousands of Medicaid members across multiple states, driving measurable reductions in avoidable emergency department visits and hospitalizations. We're designing tools and systems that bring care directly to those who need it most-removing barriers and reimagining what's possible in Medicaid healthcare delivery and we are seeking a highly experienced Data Engineer to join this mission.

This is a principal-level individual contributor role who combines deep backend engineering fundamentals with specialized expertise in Electronic Health Record (EHR) data integration. You will report to data engineering leadership and setting the technical direction for our clinical data platform by leading the design, development, and optimization of data pipelines that ingest, normalize, and transform clinical data from diverse EHR and payer systems.

If this resonates with you, we invite you to bring your creativity, energy, and curiosity to Waymark.

Key Responsibilities

EHR & Partner Integrations

Architect production-grade data pipelines that integrate clinical data through multiple channels-direct EHR connections (e.g., Epic, Cerner, Athenahealth), health information exchanges (HIEs), health alliance networks, and third-party integration vendors-via

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Tips for South African Applicants

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Timezone Advantage

South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.

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Salary in Context

Even without a listed salary, international remote roles typically pay 2-3x more than equivalent local positions in South Africa due to the exchange rate advantage.

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Application Tips

Tailor your CV to international standards — use a clean format, highlight remote work experience, and include your English proficiency. Many SA applicants succeed by emphasising their strong work ethic and cultural adaptability.

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Load Shedding Preparedness

If you're applying for a remote role, having a backup power solution (UPS, inverter, or generator) and mobile data as a backup internet connection shows employers you're prepared for South Africa's infrastructure challenges.

About Waymark

Waymark is a company in the director industry that hires remote workers from South Africa. They currently have 2 open positions on Hirezar. View all Waymark jobs →