Remote Backend Engineer — Scale Healthcare Benefits

Thatch Health; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 161,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Thatch Health is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design and build the core systems powering our health benefits platform. You will own data models, fund flows, and automations that ensure correct money movement and compliant benefits at scale.

You will collaborate with product and operations, ship reliable backend services using Ruby on Rails and related tech, and mentor teammates while owning production reliability.

Qualifications

• Production backend systems experience in a real-world environment.
• Track record 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 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 systems

Data modeling

Ambiguity handling

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Ruby on Rails

React

TailwindCSS

Python

JavaScript

Job description

Thatch Health is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to design and build the core systems powering our health benefits platform. You will own data models, fund flows, and automations that ensure correct money movement and compliant benefits at scale.

You will collaborate with product and operations, ship reliable backend services using Ruby on Rails and related tech, and mentor teammates while owning production reliability.