Staff Software Engineer

PayZen • San Francisco, CA

2d • $230,000 - $270,000

About The Position

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer — a senior individual contributor who works across multiple systems on open-ended problems, in close collaboration with peers. At this level, your impact reaches well beyond your own workstream.
You work across Care Finance's provider and partner platform — the systems that connect PayZen to health systems and partners — on a months-long horizon, keeping them reliable under HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and SOC 2 controls.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale.
• Expert craft and strong systems thinking across multiple systems or surfaces.
• A track record of finding high-impact problems others miss and driving solutions end-to-end.
• Experience setting ambitious but feasible milestones and sequencing work to deliver value early.
• Hands-on proficiency in at least one of Java, Go, Python, or TypeScript; you write and review code daily.
• Experience building tools or shared systems that make a whole team faster.
• Working knowledge of application security and compliance-regulated environments; HIPAA, PCI-DSS, or SOC 2 exposure preferred.
• A habit of coaching peers and giving actionable feedback.

Responsibilities

• Set the Craft Standard: Bring expert craft and systems thinking, and teach others as you go. Use AI-native approaches to make work that was impossible a quarter ago the new baseline.
• Find the Problems Others Miss: Find the problems others miss, and shape solutions that strengthen PayZen's data asset and expand what the platform can own across the patient financial lifecycle.
• Drive Workstreams End-to-End: Drive workstream delivery end-to-end. Set ambitious but feasible milestones, sequence work to deliver value early, and unblock others proactively.
• Shape Direction Cross-Functionally: Shape the direction of your product surface with cross-functional partners, and adjust your approach through pivots without losing momentum.
• Coach and Give Feedback: Coach others on compounding their impact, give actionable feedback across workstreams, and advocate for strong candidates at the hiring bar.
• Build Leverage for the Team: Build tools and systems that create structural leverage for the team, multiplying your impact well beyond your own workstream.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed