Sr/Staff Software Engineer, Backend | Web Products

About Our Client

The organization operates in healthcare intelligence, focusing on the payment continuum to provide value, transparency, and efficiency to health plan clients nationwide. It serves over 85 health plans, including many top 20 plans, covering more than 270 million lives. The organization combines a configurable, AI-powered platform with industry expertise to address complex healthcare financial challenges and reduce costs.

About the Opportunity

The Sr/Staff Software Engineer, Backend | Web Products role is responsible for setting technical direction and building scalable, reliable backend systems within the Pay and Audit product teams. This position influences key product and engineering decisions, collaborates cross-functionally, and leverages AI tools to advance software development aimed at significantly impacting healthcare payment processes.

Responsibilities

• Develop deep understanding of healthcare claims and payments domain
• Mentor and elevate team programming standards and maturity
• Serve as backend representative in cross-team planning and execution
• Contribute to developing complex, extensible, scalable, and secure in-browser applications
• Balance feature development with technical debt management
• Architect and implement applications applying machine learning to large datasets
• Design reliable, high-performance interconnected systems
• Integrate and promote agentic engineering practices in daily work

Requirements

• 10+ years of backend programming experience; full-stack experience preferred
• Proven experience designing and delivering customer-facing web application products
• Proficiency in Java or Scala; Rust highly desired
• Experience with building and operating distributed cloud-based systems at scale
• Ability to write clear Technical Design Documents bridging product intent and backend design
• Product- and user-focused mindset connecting technical decisions to user outcomes
• Strong collaboration skills across engineering, product, data science, and leadership
• Practical problem-solving with systems-level thinking
• Hands-on experience with agentic engineering tools in production
• Ability to read, understand, and improve complex codebases
• Comfortable managing complexity and driving solutions proactively
• Preferred: Technical leadership in Rust best practices
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Pay

The pay range and compensation package for this role will be determined based on the candidate’s experience, skills, and other relevant factors.

Benefits

• Work from anywhere in the US with a digital-first environment
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Competitive salary and 401(k) with company match
• Unlimited paid time off
• Additional health and wellness benefits and perks
• Flexible and trusting work environment empowering high performance