Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Remote)

Machinify • Palo Alto, CA

81d • Remote

About The Position

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 60 health plans, including many of the top 20, and representing more than 160 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 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.
Our engineering team is composed of the best and brightest software developers and data engineers. They're responsible for writing code that has a significant impact on our customers and future product lines. Our teams are collaborative, high-performing, curious, aligned to our product goals, and impactful towards the success of the business. Together we build highly performant ML and AI products that are transforming the landscape of healthcare!

Requirements

• 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
• 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)

Nice To Haves

• Additional Rust experience highly desired across greenfield projects!

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Work from anywhere in the US! Machinify is digital-first.
• Flexible and trusting environment where you’ll feel empowered to do your best work
• Unlimited PTO
• Full Medical/Dental/Vision for employees & their families w/ 100% premium coverage options!
• Competitive salary, equity, 401(k) sponsorship
• Learning and Development reimbursement policy

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees