# Software Engineer: Backend

**Company:** [Thatch](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/thatch)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $161k – $230k/yr
**Skills:** Ruby on Rails, React, Tailwind, Python, JavaScript, Postgres, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Redis
**Posted:** 2026-08-12

> Builds backend systems for enrollments, payments, payroll, and benefits management using Ruby on Rails. Designs data models, fund flows, and integrations with payroll/banks/insurance partners, ensuring reliability and scalability in a regulated healthcare/finance domain.

## Job Description

## What you'll do

- Design, build, and evolve backend systems that support enrollments, payments, payroll, and benefits management.
- Architect and maintain robust data models and fund flows that handle large volumes of financial transactions.
- Build integrations with payroll providers, banks, insurance carriers, and other external partners.
- Improve operational rigor through automation, tooling, monitoring, and observability.
- Partner closely with product, operations, and other engineers to solve complex business problems.
- Take ownership of production systems, including reliability, debugging, and long-term maintainability.

## What we are looking for

- Experience building and maintaining backend systems in a production environment.
- A track record of shipping systems with complex business and operational implications.
- Strong ability to reason about data models, workflows, and edge cases.
- Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces with cross-functional tradeoffs.
- Experience mentoring other engineers or setting technical direction.

## Tools and tech stack

- **Ruby on Rails** for backend systems.
- **React** and **TailwindCSS** for the frontend.
- Small amounts of **Python** and backend **JavaScript** where appropriate.

## Experience that stands out

- Work in healthcare, finance, or other complex or regulated domains.
- Experience with HR, payroll, payments, or partner-facing systems.
- Ownership of systems with real operational or financial impact.

## Estimated Compensation Range

$161,000—$230,000 USD

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