Candid Health · 3 days ago
Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Staff Level)
Menlo Park, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$209K/yr - $283K/yr
10+ years expCandid Health is on a mission to revolutionize healthcare by improving the billing and revenue cycle management process. As a Staff Engineer, you will tackle complex infrastructure challenges, optimize core systems, and mentor engineering talent to enhance the reliability and scalability of the platform.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)BillingHealth CareSoftwareTransaction Processing
Responsibilities
Lead Architecture & Technical Execution: Functionally decompose highly complex, ambiguous infrastructure-related problems and address them with the simplest solutions possible. Organize high level business objectives and input from cross-functional stakeholders into actionable project plans and roadmaps that are properly resourced
Innovate: Identify new opportunities & untapped areas that lead to significant business impact and/or customer outcomes. Stay up to date with the latest advancements in technology, evaluate and identify any emerging technologies or tools that could enhance our infrastructure, product and/or drive ROI
Scale & Optimize Core Systems: Build robust systems with a clear long-term vision in mind, ensuring that our infrastructure, systems, and architecture are extensible, reliable, performant, and scalable. You will work closely with leadership and cross-functional teams to tackle the most challenging technical problems, optimizing our platform’s performance and ensuring scalability and reliability across large volumes of complex healthcare data
Mentor and Develop Engineering Talent: Assist in the career development of others. Help guide, mentor, and develop the next generation of software engineers on advanced technical issues. You'll share your expertise, improve engineering processes, and foster a culture of learning and excellence
Qualification
Required
Bachelors or Masters of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math or other similar degree
10+ years of experience building software of significant scale and complexity
Achieved functional mastery of software development, systems design/architecture, and coding
Expert at scaling systems, and know when to build vs. buy to address scalability-related challenges
Worked on complex challenges related to observability, logging, async event-driven workflows, and distributed systems architecture
Deep understanding of postgres databases and how to scale them: sharding/partitioning, query optimization, schema migration safety & reliability, etc
Excellent technical vision; know the right architecture and patterns to build something of enduring value and scale
Track record of success and can provide specific examples of driving major business outcomes end to end: e.g., personally identified a business problem or opportunity, came up with a technical solution to it, influenced leadership to prioritize the project, and drove that project through implementation to completion
Make the right trade-offs when considering project scope, which corners are worth cutting, and which are not
Know how to manage ambiguity and have demonstrated experience delivering results when presented with highly ambiguous business challenges
Have a customer-first and learner's mindset, and value teaching others
Clear and concise communicator; enjoy the challenge of explaining complicated ideas in simple terms, both in-person and in writing
Strive for operational excellence
Preferred
Experience with the technologies we currently use is a plus, but by no means required: Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, PostgreSQL, Metabase, Terraform, Python
Benefits
Equity
Sales incentives (for sales roles)
Employee benefits
Company
Candid Health
Candid Health provides an automation platform for healthcare revenue cycle management.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$99.8MKey Investors
Oak HC/FT8VCFirst Round Capital
2025-02-12Series C· $52.5M
2024-09-11Series B· $29M
2022-04-01Series A· $16M
Leadership Team
Nick Perry
Co-founder and CEO
A
Adam Reis
Co-Founder
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