Staff Backend Software Engineer

Posted 15 Days Ago
3 Locations
195K-244K Annually
Senior level
Healthtech
The Role
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will drive the development of a member eligibility platform, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and lead improvements in engineering efficiency and system architecture.
Summary Generated by Built In

At Collective Health, we’re transforming how employers and their people engage with their health benefits by seamlessly integrating cutting-edge technology, compassionate service, and world-class user experience design.

The Eligibility team plays a crucial role in our healthcare organization, managing the essential process of member enrollment across all our clients. We handle significant volumes of sensitive data that directly impacts individuals' access to their health benefits—effectively serving as stewards of what we consider the "currency of healthcare." Our work directly supports operations teams in their mission to maintain seamless, uninterrupted membership services for our clients.

We are architecting the next generation of our systems, creating exciting opportunities for innovation. This position represents a data-centric role with high visibility throughout the organization and significant impact on our business operations.

If you're passionate about applying technical expertise to solve meaningful healthcare challenges, we would love to hear from you!

What you'll do:

  • Drive the continued technical solutioning, design and development of our member eligibility platform
  • Become an essential part of a cross-functional team of highly skilled engineers
  • Help push forward the development of the engineering department as a whole
  • Engage with our operations team to help them improve their overall efficiency
  • Help define and enhance Eligibility Platform capabilities from configurability, reuse and scalability perspective.

To be successful in this role, you:

  • Have 12+ years of working as a backend engineer
  • Are well-versed in technologies such as Java & Spring
  • Have deep experience in Cloud Technologies (AWS preferred)
  • Have experience with data architecture and SQL
  • Skilled in using and enabling AI Development tooling like Github Copilot and Cursor for daily software development
  • Communicating clearly up, down and across teams
  • Have prior experience architecting, building, launching and maintaining complex systems
  • Balance getting things done with making things perfect
  • Take pride in mentoring other developers
  • Love working with a team of awesome, collaborative co-workers
  • Like to be involved in the decision making process, taking into account the needs of our customers as well as our company

Our Tech Stack
Our backend services follow microservices architecture using Java and Spring Boot. We use cloud services (AWS) as our backbone, with Kubernetes and Docker for our orchestration. We use PostgreSQL for our databases, and Python & Spark for large scale data workloads. For the frontend, we have a React-driven architecture.

Pay Transparency Statement 

This is a hybrid position based out of one of our offices: San Francisco, CA, Plano, TX, or Lehi, UT. Hybrid employees are expected to be in the office two days per week.#LI-hybrid 

The actual pay rate offered within the range will depend on factors including geographic location, qualifications, experience, and internal equity. In addition to the salary, you will be eligible for stock options and benefits like health insurance, 401k, and paid time off. Learn more about our benefits at https://jobs.collectivehealth.com/benefits/.

San Francisco, CA Pay Range

$194,670$243,500 USD

Lehi, UT Pay Range

$155,500$194,000 USD

Plano, TX Pay Range

$171,000$213,500 USD

Why Join Us?
  • Mission-driven culture that values innovation, collaboration, and a commitment to excellence in healthcare
  • Impactful projects that shape the future of our organization
  • Opportunities for professional development through internal mobility opportunities, mentorship programs, and courses tailored to your interests
  • Flexible work arrangements and a supportive work-life balance

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Collective Health is committed to providing support to candidates who require reasonable accommodation during the interview process. If you need assistance, please contact [email protected].

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Top Skills

AWS
Docker
Java
Kubernetes
Postgres
Python
React
Spark
Spring
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The Company
Chicago, IL
500 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Collective Health is a technology company simplifying employer healthcare to make health insurance work for everyone. With more than a quarter million members and over 60 enterprise clients—including Pinterest, Restoration Hardware, and more—our technical and customer experience teams are reinventing the healthcare experience for employers and their people.

Why Work With Us

Collective Health has a mighty mission—to make the American healthcare system effortless—and a culture focused empathy, authenticity, curiosity, and a need to solve hard problems. We have a diverse, mission-driven team with doctors working alongside data scientists and nuclear engineers to reinvent the the healthcare experience for everyday people.

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