Backend Systems Engineer for Health Benefits at Scale

Thatch; United States; Remote; USD 161,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Thatch is building software that gives employees real control over how they use their benefits. We’re seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design and build core systems powering enrollments, payments, and benefits management at scale.

You’ll own data models, fund flows, automation, and external integrations with payroll providers and banks, ensuring correctness, reliability, and maintainability in a fast-growing, fully distributed team.

Qualifications

• Experience building and maintaining backend systems in a production environment.
• Track record of shipping systems with complex business and operational implications.
• Strong ability to reason about data models, workflows, and edge cases.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces with cross‑functional tradeoffs.
• Experience mentoring other engineers or setting technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve backend systems that support enrollments, payments, payroll, and benefits management.
• Architect and maintain robust data models and fund flows that handle large volumes of financial transactions.
• Build integrations with payroll providers, banks, insurance carriers, and other external partners.
• Improve operational rigor through automation, tooling, monitoring, and observability.
• Partner closely with product, operations, and other engineers to solve complex business problems.
• Take ownership of production systems, including reliability, debugging, and long-term maintainability.

Skills

Backend development

Data modeling

System architecture

Mentoring/technical direction

Tools

Ruby on Rails

React

TailwindCSS

Python

JavaScript

Job description

Thatch is building software that gives employees real control over how they use their benefits. We’re seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design and build core systems powering enrollments, payments, and benefits management at scale.

You’ll own data models, fund flows, automation, and external integrations with payroll providers and banks, ensuring correctness, reliability, and maintainability in a fast-growing, fully distributed team.