Central is looking for a Software Engineer - Benefits to design and maintain stateful, end-to-end systems for benefits and compliance workflows. You will architect mission-critical systems, iterate rapidly on features, own technical product domains, and leverage AI to automate complex processes.

What You'll Do

Architect mission-critical workflows: Design, build, and maintain stateful, end-to-end systems that ensure data integrity and meet stringent compliance and reliability requirements.
Iterate rapidly: Ship incremental, production-ready features in days—prototype, gather real user feedback, and refine relentlessly.
Own your domain: Act as the technical product lead for core platform areas—setting standards for code quality, observability, testing, and operational excellence.
Delight and empower customers: Partner with Product and Support to translate user pain points into clean, intuitive solutions that scale from a single startup to enterprise.
Push the limits with AI: Leverage AI to automate things that were previously impossible and create completely new user experiences.

What We're Looking For

Experienced systems architect: You’ve designed and delivered large-scale, stateful architectures—modeling complex domains, defining clear data schemas, and ensuring end-to-end reliability.
Distributed-transaction specialist: You’ve implemented robust patterns for coordinating multi-step workflows across disparate services and third-party APIs—handling two-phase commits, sagas, idempotency, and compensating actions to keep data consistent.
Deep transactional-pipeline expertise: Comfort building reconciled workflows with audit trails and automated recovery, especially when orchestrating financial or compliance-related operations.
Reliability-first mindset: You bake in observability, fault tolerance, and graceful degradation from day one.
Scalability & performance focus: You understand caching, queueing, rate-limiting, and have tuned systems to handle rapid growth without sacrificing latency or correctness.
Strategic thinker & communicator: You break down complex trade-offs into clear plans, document your designs, and keep cross-functional stakeholders aligned.
Bias toward action & high standards: You ship prototypes quickly, iterate based on real feedback, and insist on production-ready quality in every release.