Software Engineer, Backend
About The Position
Thatch is building a healthcare system people actually love. We give companies a smarter, more personal way to offer health benefits and give employees real choice over how they use them. As a Backend Software Engineer, you will design and build the core systems that power Thatch. This includes data models, funds flows, automations, and integrations that make healthcare benefits work reliably at scale. Your work ensures that money moves correctly, benefits stay compliant, and complex processes feel simple to users. This is a fintech meets healthcare problem. The challenge is building durable, correct systems that handle real money, regulatory constraints, and high operational stakes. We organize engineering around the people we serve members, employers, and partners so backend engineers work closely with product, operations, and full-stack peers to deliver complete, end-to-end experiences.
Requirements
- Experience building and maintaining backend systems in a production environment.
- A 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.
Nice To Haves
- Work in healthcare, finance, or other complex or regulated domains.
- Experience with HR, payroll, payments, or partner-facing systems.
- Ownership of systems with real operational or financial impact.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve backend systems that support enrollments, payments, payroll, and benefits management.
- Architect and maintain robust data models and funds flows that handle millions of dollars in 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
