Staff Software Engineer, Backend | Web Apps

Visa Hunt; United States; On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from anywhere in the US

Medical/Dental/Vision

Tuition reimbursement

401(k) matching

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Machinify, a leading healthcare intelligence company, is seeking a Senior or Staff Backend Engineer to join our web product engineering team. You’ll design and build scalable, reliable backend systems and contribute to architecture decisions influencing a cross-functional, high-impact product.

You will work on enterprise-grade services at the intersection of engineering, AI, and real-world decision automation, guiding complex projects and mentoring others while delivering secure, performant

Qualifications

• 10+ years backend experience with API development.
• Proficiency in Java or Scala.
• Experience designing scalable backend systems.
• Rust experience desired for greenfield projects.
• Strong SQL and data structures knowledge.
• Excellent code reading and refactoring ability.
• CS fundamentals and asynchronous programming.
• Excellent testing discipline.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity.
• BS or MS in Computer Science.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to backend server-side development for extensible, scalable, secure systems.
• Balance customer deliverables and tech debt to maintain a sustainable software suite.
• Design and architect complex frameworks for applying ML techniques to large data volumes.
• Deliver resilient enterprise software solutions.

Skills

Backend engineering

Java/Scala

SQL

Asynchronous programming

Data structures

Test writing

Problem solving

Rust

Ambiguity tolerance

Leadership/tech lead

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science

Job description

Machinify is a leading healthcare intelligence company with expertise across the payment continuum, delivering unmatched value, transparency, and efficiency to health plan clients across the country. Deployed by over 85 health plans, including many of the top 20, and representing more than 270 million lives, Machinify brings together a fully configurable and content-rich, AI-powered platform along with best-in-class expertise. We’re constantly reimagining what’s possible in our industry, creating disruptively simple, powerfully clear ways to maximize financial outcomes and drive down healthcare costs.

We're looking for skilled Senior or Staff Backend Engineer to join our growing web product engineering team!

In this role, you will leverage your deep programming expertise to design and build scalable, reliable backend systems. The ideal candidate has strong experience in application system architecture and design, as well as proven leadership skills, whether through serving as a tech lead or guiding complex projects.

You’ll have the opportunity to work on interesting product application services that sits at the intersection of engineering, AI, modeling, and real-world decision automation. As a cross-functional high impact role, you’ll influence foundational technical decisions and collaborate with a world-class engineering team solving meaningful and complex problems!

What You’ll Do

• Contribute to backend server-side development to ensure our application is extensible, scalable, and secure

• Recognize and prioritize between Customer deliverables & Tech debt to develop a sustainable software suite of products.

• Enjoy designing and architecting complex frameworks for applying ML techniques to large data volumes and simplifying labor-intensive processes

• Deliver resilient enterprise software solutions

What You Bring

• 10+ years of backend focused experience in the field of application programming and complex API development

• Strong working experience with Java or Scala

• Proven experience developing thoughtful backend system design and architecture with scalability in mind

• Additional Rust experience highly desired across greenfield projects!

• Experience reading and understanding complex enterprise-grade code, quickly contributing to it, and suggesting improvements.

• Working experience writing SQL queries

• Strong CS foundation (data structures, asynchronous programming)

• Excellences in test writing discipline

• Critical thinking and problem solving skills working in a high growth environment

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity

• BS or MS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)

What We Offer

• Work from anywhere in the US! Machinify is digital-first.
• Top Medical/Dental/Vision offerings
• FSA/HSA
• Tuition reimbursement
• Competitive salary, 401(k) with company match
• Unlimited PTO
• Additional health and wellness benefits and perks
• Flexible and trusting environment where you’ll feel empowered to do your best work

The salary for this position is based on an array of factors unique to each candidate: Such as years and depth of experience, set skills, certifications, etc. We are hiring for different levels, and our Recruiting team will let you know if you qualify for a different role/range. Salary is one component of the total compensation package, which includes meaningful equity, excellent healthcare, flexible time off, and other benefits and perks.

Pay range: $200,000-250,000

Equal Employment Opportunity at Machinify

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Machinify is an employment at will employer. We participate in E-Verify as required by applicable law. In accordance with applicable state laws, we do not inquire about salary history during the recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruitment process, please let our recruiters know. See our Candidate Privacy Notice at: https://www.machinify.com/candidate-privacy-notice/