Software Engineer
Senior backend engineer building scalable web services for an AI‑powered healthcare payment platform, leveraging Python, Node.js, AWS, and microservices to deliver secure, high‑performance solutions for health plans.
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 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.
We're looking for skilled Senior or Staff Backend Engineer to join our growing web product 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.
You’ll have the opportunity to work on interesting product application services that sits at the intersection of engineering, AI, modeling, and real-world decision automation. As a cross-functional high impact role, you’ll influence foundational technical decisions and collaborate with a world-class engineering team solving meaningful and complex problems!
What You’ll Do
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
What You Bring
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
Additional Rust experience highly desired across greenfield projects!
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)
What We Offer
Posted June 24, 2026