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Deployed by over 85 health plans, including many of the top 20, and representing more than 270 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.\nWe're hiring for a Staff and Senior Backend Engineer to join our Pay and Audit product teams! \nOur Culture @ Machinify\nWe embrace complex challenges with curiosity, having genuine interest and drive to understand the hard problems at hand and how to move the needle forward. Our engineers empower each other to take action, learn deeply about our customers' needs and unlock innovation with a strong sense of product ownership. We build with our users in mind, thoughtfully shipping outcomes, not just features. The technology we build shapes real healthcare decisions, demanding a high bar for engineering excellence and what we ship carries real weight. We pressure-test new AI tools, shape how they're used, and set the example for what disciplined, AI-driven engineering looks like...fast, but always under structured human oversight.\nThe Role\nIn this role, you'll set technical direction for backend development, leverage 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\nYou'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.\nClick here to learn more about our flagship Pay & Audit product lines.\nDoes this sound like the right opportunity for you? Let’s connect!\nWhat You’ll Do\nDeepen your understanding of the healthcare claims and payments domain\nDeveloper Coach/Multiplier - An experienced Java, Scala and/or Rust developer who not only builds production-grade services, but also contributes to setting standards, mentors others, and elevates the team’s overall programming maturity.\nBackend voice in cross-team planning and the glue in cross-functional execution\nContribute to new product development of complex in-browser applications, taking advantage of your holistic view to ensure our application is extensible, scalable, and secure\nBalance customer-facing features and technical debt cleanup to keep the software suite sustainable\nArchitect and implement complex applications that apply ML techniques to large volumes of data, simplifying labor-intensive processes through good user experience\nDesign systems that work together to deliver a good-performing, reliable application\nBring agentic engineering practices into the team’s day-to-day work and help the team adopt them effectively\nWhat You Bring\n10+ years of experience spread across backend programming (additional full-stack experienced highly desired)\nProven experience designing and shipping customer-facing web application products, you've built features that serve external users and you're energized by that kind of work!\nMeaningful experience with Java or Scala; Rust highly desired\nExperience designing, building, and operating distributed systems that run reliably on cloud-services at scale (high throughput, high availability)\nThe ability to write a Technical Design Document (TDD) that a staff peer trusts and a product lead can understand - turning ambiguous product intent into concrete backend design\nA product and user-driven mindset. You connect your technical decisions to the people using what you build, and you care about the outcome, not just the implementation\nStrong cross-functional collaboration skills with your engineering peers, senior PM, ML/DS partners, and leadership. You care more about the system landing than about being right.\nA pragmatic default paired with a strong systems instinct - you look for root causes, not symptoms.\nHands-on experience with agentic engineering tools and workflows in a real production setting.\nExperience reading and understanding complex code, owning code quality and improving it\nCritical thinking and problem solving skills working in a high growth environment where stakes are high\nComfort with complexity and curiosity to define the path forward, not wait for one\nNice to have - Provides technical leadership on Rust best practices - idioms, safety, and performance as the team scales its adoption across greenfield projects\nBS or MS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)\nWhat We Offer\nWork from anywhere in the US! Machinify is digital-first.\nTop Medical/Dental/Vision offerings\nFSA/HSA\nTuition reimbursement\nCompetitive salary, 401(k) with company match\nUnlimited PTO\nAdditional health and wellness benefits and perks\nFlexible and trusting environment where you’ll feel empowered to do your best work\nHow We Evaluate Talent\nOur 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 which allows us to place each candidate at the level that best reflects their experience and abilities! \nThe salary for this position is based on an array of factors unique to each candidate: Such as years and depth of experience, set skills, certifications, etc. We are hiring for different levels, and our Recruiting team will let you know if you qualify for a different role/range. Salary is one component of the total compensation package, which includes meaningful equity, excellent healthcare, flexible time off, and other benefits and perks.\nPay Range: $200,000-250,000 ~\nEqual Employment Opportunity at Machinify\nWe 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. Machinify is an employment at will employer. We participate in E-Verify as required by applicable law. In accordance with applicable state laws, we do not inquire about salary history during the recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruitment process, please let our recruiters know. 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