Tech Lead | Senior Staff Software Engineer

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 60 health plans, including many of the top 20, and representing more than 160 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 are looking for an experienced Staff or Principal level Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team. In this role you will be responsible for shaping and architecting the next generation of Payer related solutions driven by a foundation that is based on AI and use of LLMs to solve payment integrity across claims processing for Healthcare Payers. The ideal candidate has proven track record of building complex software systems through the full lifecycle as well as proven leadership skills to be a guide, mentor and coach as well as be a tech lead for our projects in Payment Integrity space

You’ll have the opportunity to work on a platform 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:

• Lead end-to-end design and implementation of large-scale data mining solutions that handle real-time data as well as batch mode ingestion, modeling, and inference

• Shape long-term architectural direction, technology stack, and engineering best practices

• Identify and mitigate technical risks, ensuring scalability, availability, and reliability across the platform

• Mentor and guide engineers across teams, fostering strong engineering culture and technical excellence

• Partner with peers in product management, operations and data science to translate ambiguous business requirements into actionable technical plans

• Enjoy designing and architecting complex frameworks for applying ML techniques to large data volumes and simplifying labor-intensive processes

• Recognize and prioritize between Customer deliverables & Tech debt to develop a sustainable software suite of products

What You Bring:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience building complex distributed systems or large-scale backend platforms

• Strong working experience with Java or Scala (additional experience with python, Rust, or C# are a plus)

• Deep expertise with data-intensive systems, or real-time processing pipelines.

• Proven ability to drive high-impact , green field and / or ambiguous projects or architecture initiatives across teams

• 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)

• BS or MS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)

What We Offer:

• Work from anywhere in the US! Machinify is digital-first

• Full Medical/Dental/Vision for employees & their families

• Flexible and trusting environment where you’ll feel empowered to do your best work

• Unlimited PTO

• Competitive salary, equity, 401(k) sponsorship and company match

The 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. The base salary range for this role is $235k +/-

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.

Equal Employment Opportunity at Machinify

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