Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Take Command is a start-up on a mission to improve the healthcare system, starting with health insurance. They are seeking a Staff Engineer with experience in building ledger and payment systems to drive the architecture and implementation of their financial platform.
Responsibilities
- Drive architecture and implementation for ledger, payments, and money movement capabilities, both through your own contributions and by guiding technical decisions across the team
- Design systems that handle financial events, balances, reimbursements, payment states, reconciliation, reversals, and related workflows
- Build reliable backend services, integrations, and data models for systems where correctness matters
- Partner with product and engineering leaders to shape the direction of our financial platform
- Bring practical experience from production financial systems to help us avoid common mistakes and choose proven patterns
- Mentor other engineers and help establish strong engineering patterns for financial systems
- This role doesn’t require people management, but the opportunity does exist
Skills
- Significant experience building and operating production financial systems
- Hands-on experience with ledgers, payment systems, card payments, banking integrations, reimbursements, or similar money movement infrastructure
- Strong backend engineering experience, ideally with Java or a similar language
- Strong relational database experience, especially with data models that require accuracy, traceability, and long-term maintainability
- Ability to lead through technical judgment, clear communication, mentorship, and execution
- Comfort working through ambiguous product and technical problems
- A product-minded approach to engineering, with an interest in how technical decisions affect customers, operations, and the business
- Pragmatic judgment about when to invest deeply, when to keep things simple, and how to make tradeoffs without losing sight of financial integrity
Benefits
- A generously funded ICHRA for medical, dental, and vision premiums and medical expenses. You get to use our own product and we think that’s so exciting and rare!
- Unlimited personal vacation in addition to regular company holidays.
- 401(k): 90-day eligibility for 4% match that vests over 4 years with a one year cliff!
- We have two beautiful offices in Richardson, Texas (City Line) and Austin, Texas. The kitchen is well-stocked and we've designed the space to have lots of different areas to work--lounge on the couch, stand near your colleague at a kiosk desk or hole up in one of our phone rooms!
- Competitive parental leave for new parents.
- Up to two paid days of Paw-ternity leave. We recognize that pets are family too - and supporting life outside of work (including four-legged members) matters!
- ClassPass corporate membership with access to over 73,000 fitness and wellness options.
- Flexible on where you work – we believe in the power of connecting with intention! While we hope to see you around the office on a regular basis, you also have the ability to work from home some when you need to get focus work done.
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