# Senior Software Engineer, Backend | Audit Product Team

**Company:** [Machinify](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/machinify)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Java, Scala, Rust, Distributed Systems, Cloud Services, Machine Learning, Web Applications, System Architecture, Technical Design Documents, Agentic Engineering, Ai Coding Tools, High Availability
**Posted:** 2026-09-08

> Senior backend engineer responsible for architecting and shipping scalable, reliable web applications and distributed systems for a healthcare audit product. The role requires 8+ years of backend experience, strong Java or Scala expertise, cloud-scale systems experience, and the ability to mentor engineers and adopt AI-assisted development practices.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Deepen understanding of the healthcare claims and payments domain.
- Build production-grade backend services using Java, Scala, and/or Rust.
- Set backend development standards, mentor engineers, and elevate team programming maturity.
- Represent backend engineering in cross-team planning and support cross-functional execution.
- Contribute to complex in-browser applications with extensible, scalable, and secure architectures.
- Balance customer-facing feature development with technical debt reduction.
- Architect and implement applications that apply machine learning techniques to large data volumes.
- Design reliable, high-performance distributed systems and applications.
- Introduce and help the team adopt agentic engineering practices and AI coding workflows.
- Write technical design documents that translate ambiguous product intent into concrete backend designs.
- Own code quality, improve complex codebases, and operate cloud services at scale.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in backend programming; additional full-stack experience is highly desirable.
- Experience designing and shipping customer-facing web application products.
- Meaningful experience with Java or Scala.
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems on cloud services at scale.
- Experience with high-throughput and highly available systems.
- Strong technical design, systems thinking, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Product- and user-driven mindset with a focus on business and customer outcomes.
- Hands-on experience with agentic engineering tools and workflows in production.
- Experience reading and understanding complex code and owning code quality.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

## Nice to Have
- Rust experience.
- Technical leadership in Rust best practices, including idioms, safety, and performance.
- Full-stack development experience.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Pay range: $200,000–$230,000.
- Meaningful equity.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- FSA/HSA.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- Health and wellness benefits and perks.
- Flexible work environment.

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