Staff Backend Software Engineer (Fintech)

TL;DR

Staff Backend Software Engineer (Python/TypeScript): Building and optimizing the foundational payment and clearinghouse platforms to automate insurance and revenue flow in mental healthcare with an accent on fault-tolerance, idempotency, and distributed systems. Focus on designing highly reliable integrations with Stripe and Plaid, solving complex concurrency challenges, and scaling the revenue engine.

Location: Remote (Must be based in New York or the USA)

Salary: $224,000 - $280,000 base salary

Company

hirify.global is building a new mental healthcare system by automating insurance and billing to make therapy accessible for everyone.

What you will do

• Lead the technical direction for the Payment Platform and Clearinghouse Platform teams.
• Design fault-tolerant and observable integrations with Stripe, Plaid, and payer clearinghouses.
• Build abstractions and standards to enable adjacent engineering teams to ship features faster and more safely.
• Write high-leverage code and mentor senior engineers across multiple pods.
• Solve complex distributed systems problems involving concurrency, idempotency, and partial failures.

Requirements

• Proven experience as an end-to-end product builder with a strong focus on backend logic and API architecture.
• Ability to own outcomes, handling ambiguous problems from definition to shipping.
• Capacity to set high technical standards for maintainability and scale.
• Strong mentorship skills and a commitment to sharing knowledge across the team.
• Ability to quickly build mental models for complex domains like healthcare regulations.
• Must be authorized to work in the US (E-Verify participant).

Nice to have

• Experience applying LLMs to real workflows, such as code generation or operational automation.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA/FSA options.
• 401(k) plan and a competitive equity package.
• 16-week parental leave, flexible PTO, and a full week off in December.
• Reimbursement for personal therapy and a professional development budget.

Hiring process

• Initial recruiting screen to discuss background and mission.
• Live coding interview with Karat.
• Final rounds consisting of several technical and non-technical interviews.