Senior Backend Engineer, Tech Lead - San Francisco

Posted 15 Days Ago
San Francisco, CA
Hybrid
Senior level
Fintech • Healthtech • Payments
The Role
The Senior Backend Engineer will design and build user-centric products, focusing on backend development with opportunities in frontend integration. Responsibilities include code development, architecture contributions, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Summary Generated by Built In

PayZen is on a mission to bring financial health to healthcare. Our products improve both access and affordability for patients and cash flow & administrative complexity for medical providers. We are trusted by a rapidly growing number of health systems, hospitals, and physician groups and are backed by leading venture capital investors.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical projects and mentor junior engineers while solving complex challenges and building scalable web services ensuring high quality solutions and fostering team growth.
  • Collaborate with product managers and engineers to design and build user-centric products that make a meaningful impact on people's lives.
  • Write reusable, testable, and efficient code while adhering to best practices for maintainability and performance.
  • Develop new features and user interfaces with a mobile-first approach, ensuring seamless experiences across devices.
  • Contribute to the architecture and design of the product, participating in technical discussions and decision-making processes.
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams to develop a deep understanding of business needs and translate them into effective technical solutions.
  • Support team success by fostering collaboration, sharing knowledge, and contributing to a positive and productive work environment.
  • While primarily focused on backend development, you may also contribute to frontend code as needed, ensuring seamless integration across the stack.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in software development, including at least 1 year of success in a 0-to-1 product environment.
  • 7+ years of experience in JavaScript technologies, including Node.js and React
  • Strong understanding of user experience, product strategy, and scalable database design.
  • A collaborative mindset and excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • A track record of designing, building, and deploying high-quality, customer-focused solutions.
  • Experience with testing platforms, unit testing, and clean, maintainable code.

Why Payzen?

  • An opportunity to positively affect the lives of thousands of patients
  • A chance to join a high-growth company at an early stage.
  • Contribute to the development of a product that revolutionizes medical payments in ways never seen before.
  • Become a key member of a collaborative, high performing team, shaping its growth and success.
  • Competitive pay, benefits and stock options.

Top Skills

JavaScript
Node.js
React
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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
45 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

PayZen is leading the CNPL (Care Now Pay Later) market. Our Fintech platform provides innovative affordability solutions to the healthcare industry.

We are tackling the growing Consumerization of healthcare that is shifting the payment responsibility for health services to patients. The majority of Americans are on high deductible health plans, yet most people cannot afford a $400 emergency expense. Our Mission is to make healthcare affordable to 100% of patients and medical providers.

We have an amazing team, a big market and top tier investors. More importantly, our mission is our motivator: we are hyper focused on making a big, positive impact in our market and improving the lives of patients and medical providers alike.

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