Staff Software Engineer - Payments & Ledger

Role Description

Take Command is building the financial foundation for a better health insurance experience. As more employers use our platform to reimburse employees for individual insurance, how money moves through our system becomes critical to making that experience affordable, reliable, and easy to understand.

We’re looking for a Staff Engineer with real experience building ledger, payments, card, reimbursement, or money movement systems in production. This is a senior role with meaningful influence over the technical and product direction of our financial systems. You’ll help us make sound architectural decisions, avoid common pitfalls in financial system design, and raise the team’s understanding of proven ledger and payment patterns.

The role is full-stack, but heavily backend-leaning. Most of your work will be in Java, Postgres, and AWS, with occasional React work where needed. Over time, we expect more of our stack to move toward TypeScript, and you’ll have an opportunity to help shape that transition.

What You'll Do

• Drive architecture and implementation for ledger, payments, and money movement capabilities, both through your own contributions and by guiding technical decisions across the team.
• Design systems that handle financial events, balances, reimbursements, payment states, reconciliation, reversals, and related workflows.
• Build reliable backend services, integrations, and data models for systems where correctness matters.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to shape the direction of our financial platform.
• Bring practical experience from production financial systems to help us avoid common mistakes and choose proven patterns.
• Mentor other engineers and help establish strong engineering patterns for financial systems.
• This role doesn’t require people management, but the opportunity does exist.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building and operating production financial systems.
• Hands-on experience with ledgers, payment systems, card payments, banking integrations, reimbursements, or similar money movement infrastructure.
• Strong backend engineering experience, ideally with Java or a similar language.
• Strong relational database experience, especially with data models that require accuracy, traceability, and long-term maintainability.
• Ability to lead through technical judgment, clear communication, mentorship, and execution.
• Comfort working through ambiguous product and technical problems.
• A product-minded approach to engineering, with an interest in how technical decisions affect customers, operations, and the business.
• Pragmatic judgment about when to invest deeply, when to keep things simple, and how to make tradeoffs without losing sight of financial integrity.

Compensation

• $165,000 - $235,000 + 10% bonus.
• We believe employees should be compensated fairly based on the market in which they live and work.

Benefits

• A generously funded ICHRA for medical, dental, and vision premiums and medical expenses.
• Unlimited personal vacation in addition to regular company holidays.
• 401(k): 90-day eligibility for 4% match that vests over 4 years with a one year cliff!
• Two beautiful offices in Richardson, Texas (City Line) and Austin, Texas.
• Competitive parental leave for new parents.
• Up to two paid days of Paw-ternity leave.
• ClassPass corporate membership with access to over 73,000 fitness and wellness options.
• Flexible on where you work – ability to work from home when needed.

Company Description

We secured our Series B funding in 2023 and are thrilled to be able to expand our team. Despite being a small startup in a land of health insurance giants, we’re the recognized industry leader for what we do (health insurance reimbursements) and passionate about bringing it to market because we know we can help fix a broken system and improve our clients’ wellbeing and health outcomes.

Take Command knows diversity and inclusion among our teammates is integral to our company’s success and growth. Our vision is to recruit, develop, and retain the best team from a diverse candidate pool.

Take Command is an equal opportunity employer! We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.