Staff Software Engineer

Job Description

About PayZen
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PayZen is on a mission to bring financial health to healthcare. Our products improve both access and affordability for patients and cash flow and administrative complexity for medical providers. We are trusted by a rapidly growing number of health systems, hospitals, and physician groups and are backed by leading venture capital investors, including NEA, SignalFire, Viola Group, and 7Wire Ventures.

About the Role
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We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer --- a senior individual contributor who works across multiple systems on open-ended problems, in close collaboration with peers. At this level, your impact reaches well beyond your own workstream.

You work across Care Finance's provider and partner platform --- the systems that connect PayZen to health systems and partners --- on a months-long horizon, keeping them reliable under HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and SOC 2 controls.

Responsibilities
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**Set the Craft Standard**

Bring expert craft and systems thinking, and teach others as you go. Use AI-native approaches to make work that was impossible a quarter ago the new baseline.

**Find the Problems Others Miss**

Find the problems others miss, and shape solutions that strengthen PayZen's data asset and expand what the platform can own across the patient financial lifecycle.

**Drive Workstreams End-to-End**

Drive workstream delivery end-to-end. Set ambitious but feasible milestones, sequence work to deliver value early, and unblock others proactively.

**Shape Direction Cross-Functionally**

Shape the direction of your product surface with cross-functional partners, and adjust your approach through pivots without losing momentum.

**Coach and Give Feedback**

Coach others on compounding their impact, give actionable feedback across workstreams, and advocate for strong candidates at the hiring bar.

**Build Leverage for the Team**

Build tools and systems that create structural leverage for the team, multiplying your impact well beyond your own workstream.

Requirements
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* 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale.

* Expert craft and strong systems thinking across multiple systems or surfaces.

* A track record of finding high-impact problems others miss and driving solutions end-to-end.

* Experience setting ambitious but feasible milestones and sequencing work to deliver value early.

* Hands-on proficiency in at least one of Java, Go, Python, or TypeScript; you write and review code daily.

* Experience building tools or shared systems that make a whole team faster.

* Working knowledge of application security and compliance-regulated environments; HIPAA, PCI-DSS, or

* SOC 2 exposure preferred.

* A habit of coaching peers and giving actionable feedback.