Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Machinify is a leading healthcare intelligence company delivering unmatched value and efficiency to health plan clients. They are seeking a Staff/Senior Backend Engineer to set technical direction for backend development, design scalable services, and influence product direction while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Set the architecture and technical direction for backend systems on your product line
- Ship cloud-native services that power accurate, high-stakes payment-integrity decisions
- Turn ambiguous product intent into concrete, well-sequenced backend design
- Own your services in production — reliability, observability, and performance at scale
- Raise the engineering bar and grow the team's programming maturity as we scale Rust
- Set the standard for AI-driven delivery, keeping delivery fast and under human oversight
- Simplify labor-intensive workflows by applying ML techniques to large volumes of data
- Balance new customer value with technical-debt cleanup to keep the product sustainable
- Partner with PM, ML/DS, QA and UX to shape product direction and outcomes
- Mentor engineers and act as the backend voice in cross-team planning
- Work directly with customers on systems that impact millions of lives
Skills
- 10+ years of backend engineering for Staff, 6+ years for Senior (full-stack experience a plus)
- Strong application design and system architecture across complex backend systems
- Proven ability to author technical design documents that satisfy engineers and product partners alike
- Substantial production experience in Rust, Java, Go, or Scala; Rust highly desired
- Proven experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems at scale
- Hands-on with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) in production
- Ownership of CI/CD pipelines for your own services — building them, not just consuming them
- Production experience on at least one major cloud — AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Strong SQL and relational database skills; comfort across NoSQL and caching layers
- Hands-on experience with agentic engineering tools and workflows in production
- Proven ability to read complex code and own and continually improve code quality
- Strong cross-functional collaboration with engineering, PM, ML/DS, and leadership
- A pragmatic default and strong systems instinct — you find root causes, not symptoms
- Comfort with complexity and curiosity to define the path forward, not wait for one
- BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- Technical leadership on Rust best practices — idioms, safety, and performance — as the team scales adoption across greenfield projects
- Healthcare, payer, or insurance domain experience; claims or payment-integrity workflows
- Experience shipping ML/AI-driven features in production and earning the business's trust in them
Benefits
- Work from anywhere in the US! Machinify is digital-first.
- Top Medical/Dental/Vision offerings
- FSA/HSA
- Tuition reimbursement
- 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
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