Machinify is seeking a Technical Lead, Staff Backend Engineer to shape and architect the next generation of AI-driven Payer solutions for payment integrity across claims processing. You will lead end-to-end design of large-scale data mining solutions, influence foundational technical decisions, and collaborate with a world-class engineering team. Our culture is focused on reimagining what’s possible in healthcare, creating disruptively simple ways to maximize financial outcomes and drive down costs.
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.
- Design and architect complex frameworks for applying ML techniques to large data volumes and simplifying labor-intensive processes.
- Recognize and prioritize between customer deliverables and tech debt to develop a sustainable software suite of products.
What We're Looking For
- 10+ years of hands-on experience building complex distributed systems or large-scale backend platforms.
- Ability to gain trust and influence to adopt a specific technical direction or architectural change without having direct managerial authority across stakeholders.
- Strong working experience with Scala or Java.
- Deep expertise with data-intensive systems or real-time processing pipelines.
- Proven ability to drive high-impact, green field and/or ambiguous 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).
- BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Excitement to make an impact in rewiring US healthcare.
Nice to Have
- Additional experience with Python, Rust, or C#.
Technical Stack
- Scala
- Java
- Python
- Rust
- C#
- SQL
Team & Environment
You will be part of a highly visible engineering team that partners cross-functionally.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive salary: $225,000-$245,000 + meaningful equity.
- Top Medical, Dental, and Vision offerings.
- FSA/HSA accounts.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Additional health and wellness benefits and perks.
- Flexible and trusting environment.
Work Mode
This is a remote position open to candidates located within the United States.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
