Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Role Description

We're hiring for a Staff and Senior Backend Engineer to join our Pay and Audit product teams!

In this role, you'll set technical direction for backend development, leveraging your deep programming expertise to design and build scalable, reliable web application systems — working alongside AI coding agents as a core part of how you deliver, directing and reviewing their output while holding the bar on quality. The ideal candidate has strong experience in application design and system architecture, along with a proven ability to drive adoption of new languages, tools, and agentic development practices across a team.

You'll join a highly visible engineering team trusted to solve complex, high-stakes problems using the best of AI, data, and software systems. You're responsible for writing code that has a significant impact on our customers and future product lines. Our team partners cross-functionally to influence product direction, work directly with customers, and own systems positively impacting millions of lives, where your technical decisions truly matter.

What You’ll Do

• Deeply understand the healthcare claims and payments domain.
• Act as a Developer Coach/Multiplier - an experienced Java, Scala, and/or Rust developer who builds production-grade services, contributes to setting standards, mentors others, and elevates the team’s overall programming maturity.
• Serve as the backend voice in cross-team planning and the glue in cross-functional execution.
• Contribute to new product development of complex in-browser applications, ensuring our application is extensible, scalable, and secure.
• Balance customer-facing features and technical debt cleanup to keep the software suite sustainable.
• Architect and implement complex applications that apply ML techniques to large volumes of data, simplifying labor-intensive processes through good user experience.
• Design systems that work together to deliver a good-performing, reliable application.
• Bring agentic engineering practices into the team’s day-to-day work and help the team adopt them effectively.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience spread across backend programming (additional full-stack experience highly desired).
• Proven experience designing and shipping customer-facing web application products.
• Meaningful experience with Java or Scala; Rust highly desired.
• Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems that run reliably on cloud services at scale (high throughput, high availability).
• The ability to write a Technical Design Document (TDD) that a staff peer trusts and a product lead can understand.
• A product and user-driven mindset.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
• A pragmatic default paired with a strong systems instinct.
• Hands-on experience with agentic engineering tools and workflows in a real production setting.
• Experience reading and understanding complex code, owning code quality and improving it.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills in a high growth environment.
• Comfort with complexity and curiosity to define the path forward.
• Nice to have - Provides technical leadership on Rust best practices.
• BS or MS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).

Benefits

• 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.

How We Evaluate Talent

Our interview process is designed to evaluate candidates across our engineering career ladder. The level, title, and compensation range we're able to offer are determined by your overall performance and the competencies you demonstrate throughout the process.

The salary for this position is based on an array of factors unique to each candidate, including years and depth of experience, set skills, certifications, etc. 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.