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PayZen is a healthcare fintech company on a mission to improve financial health in healthcare. The company's products enhance patient access and affordability while reducing administrative burden for medical providers. PayZen is backed by leading VCs including NEA, SignalFire, Viola Group, and 7Wire Ventures.
This Staff Software Engineer role is a senior individual contributor position working across multiple systems and platforms within Care Finance's provider and partner ecosystem. The role operates on a months-long horizon, maintaining systems under strict HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and SOC 2 compliance requirements.
Key responsibilities include:
- Setting craft standards by bringing expert systems thinking and teaching others, leveraging AI-native approaches to raise baseline capabilities
- Identifying high-impact problems that others miss and shaping solutions that strengthen PayZen's data assets and expand platform capabilities across the patient financial lifecycle
- Driving end-to-end workstream delivery with ambitious but feasible milestones, sequencing work to deliver early value, and proactively unblocking teammates
- Shaping product direction cross-functionally with partners and maintaining momentum through pivots
- Coaching peers on compounding impact, providing actionable feedback across workstreams, and advocating for strong hiring candidates
- Building tools and shared systems that create structural leverage, multiplying team impact beyond individual contribution
Required qualifications:
- 8+ years of production software engineering experience building and operating systems at scale
- Expert craft and strong systems thinking across multiple systems or surfaces
- Track record of finding high-impact problems and driving solutions end-to-end
- Ability to set ambitious but feasible milestones and sequence work for early value delivery
- Hands-on daily proficiency in Java, Go, Python, or TypeScript with code writing and review
- Experience building tools or shared systems that accelerate team velocity
- Working knowledge of application security and compliance-regulated environments; HIPAA, PCI-DSS, or SOC 2 exposure preferred
- Demonstrated habit of coaching peers and giving actionable feedback
