Staff Software Engineer, Spend Management
176k – 264kNew York, NYBackend EngineeringHybrid7+ YOE
Summary
Staff Software Engineer leading architecture and development of a self-service spend management platform for healthcare practices. Requires 2+ years .NET and AWS experience plus strong backend and frontend skills.
About the role
Responsibilities
- Full ownership of the technical strategy for the self-service spend management platform.
- Architecting and writing code for key roadmap initiatives — flexible budget controls, the Budget Settings experience, and cross-channel (Marketplace + SPO) spend strategy.
- Building and fostering relationships with engineers on your team and partners in Product, Design, and Analytics to refine and execute the product vision.
- Safeguarding the accuracy and reliability of a system that moves money — spend tracking, budget enforcement, and the guardrails that keep them correct.
- Mentoring engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and 1:1 pairing.
- Working with cutting-edge GenAI tools and technology, with an eye toward future goals like spend recommendations and AI-assisted budget insights.
Requirements
- Meaningful (2+ years) experience in .NET and AWS or equivalent cloud technology.
- The ability to integrate generative AI tools into daily workflows to automate tasks, foster innovation, and maximize productivity.
- A fundamental understanding of building and scaling business-critical back-end services, with the front-end skills to make them usable.
- A bias toward correctness and reliability, with the instinct to build observability and guardrails into money-moving systems from the start.
- The mentality of an entrepreneur/owner and a strong bias to action.
- Superb communication skills.
- Humility and treating all people with dignity and respect.
Nice-to-Haves
- Passionate about mentorship and leveling up the engineers around you.
- A strong collaborator who can work with Product, Design, Analytics, and Sales to build a unified vision.
- Energized by turning a manual, internal process into a self-service product that customers control themselves.
Skills
.NETAWSGenerative AIBackend DevelopmentFrontend DevelopmentObservabilitySystem ArchitectureCode ReviewMentorship
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