# Senior Software Engineer

**Company:** [Plenful](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/plenful)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Workflow Orchestration, Event-Driven Pipelines, SQL, Schema Design, REST APIs, Hl7, X12, Edi, Python, Java, AWS
**Posted:** 2026-09-09

> Senior Software Engineer building and scaling a healthcare workflow automation platform. Own core infrastructure for orchestration, integrations, and data pipelines processing millions of tasks monthly in serverless and containerized environments. Requires 7+ years experience with distributed systems, databases, and large-scale pipelines.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do

### Core Infrastructure & Workflow Orchestration
- Contribute to the design and evolution of our workflow automation system, which runs across serverless and containerized environments and processes millions of tasks each month
- Implement scheduling, queuing, rate limiting, and retry logic for reliable and fair resource allocation
- Build components for state tracking, error handling, timeouts, and cleanup across distributed tasks
- Collaborate with DevOps to enhance observability, structured logging, tracing, and deployment automation

### External Integrations & Data Pipelines
- Build and maintain integrations with SFTP, email, databases, spreadsheets, and REST APIs, including credential management and failure recovery
- Develop and operate file processing pipelines handling high data volumes across diverse formats (PDF, Excel, CSV, JSON)
- Work with healthcare data formats (HL7, X12, EDI) and collaborate with ML/AI teams on data pipelines for model training and inference
- Create and maintain webhook handlers, polling services, and event-driven workflows

### Technical Impact & Collaboration
- Take ownership of complex backend projects from design through deployment
- Participate in architectural discussions, propose improvements, and help drive high reliability and maintainability standards
- Contribute to reducing technical debt and improving operational efficiency
- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and technical discussions
- Participate in incident response and postmortems with a focus on prevention and system resilience

## You May Be a Fit If
- You have 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- You have experience with distributed systems, workflow orchestration, automated systems, and event-driven pipelines at scale
- You bring strong database expertise: SQL, schema design, and performance optimization
- You have solid computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, system design)
- You have experience with large-scale data pipelines
- You're able to take ownership of projects and collaborate effectively across engineering, DevOps, ML, and UX teams
- You have proven experience improving reliability, performance, and maintainability in production systems
- You communicate clearly, both in technical discussions and documentation

## Benefits & Perks
- Full medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and participation for your family
- 401(k) with Company Match — Plenful matches 50% of your first 3% contributed
- Equity — Every full-time employee shares in our success
- Unlimited PTO — Take the time you need, when you need it
- Daily Lunch Stipend — $100/week to cover your midday meals
- Wellness Stipend — $100/month to support your health and well-being
- Commuter Benefits — $100/month for SF and NYC-based employees
- Parental Leave — Paid leave to support growing families

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