Senior Engineer Manager – Core Platform

November 19

🏄 California – Remote

Although this job is listed in California, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $230k - $270k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Machinify, Inc.

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Artificial Intelligence • Healthcare Insurance • Fintech

Machinify, Inc. is a company specializing in artificial intelligence solutions for the healthcare industry, particularly in optimizing payment processes and enhancing payment integrity. Their product suite, including Machinify Audit and Machinify Pay, is designed to automate and improve the accuracy of medical claims review, identifying billing and coding errors, and reducing administrative costs. Machinify's AI-driven platform covers millions of healthcare members and delivers significant financial benefits by efficiently processing medical claims and empowering health plans to tailor their policies. With a focus on transparency, control, and safety in AI, Machinify offers customized solutions that adapt to the specific needs of healthcare providers and contribute to the transformation of healthcare payments.

51 - 200 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

💳 Fintech

💰 $10M Series A on 2018-10

📋 Description

• Lead Platform Engineering Initiatives: Own the technical roadmap and execution for Core Platform services which are the foundations for the business application verticals, and enabling them at scale. • Build and Grow High-Performing Teams: Manage, mentor, and develop a team of backend engineers; conduct 1:1s, performance reviews, career development conversations, and hiring • Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product engineering teams to understand their needs and evolve the platform to serve them better; act as an internal consultant and evangelist for platform adoption • Architect Scalable Platform Solutions: Own the design and implementation middleware and services that support multiple applications; ensure platform components are composable, flexible, secure-by-default, and self-service. Participate in architecture reviews, write RFCs, and drive technical decision-making; stay hands-on with code reviews and technical guidance when needed • Champion Engineering Excellence: Establish best practices for platform development including API design, versioning, backward compatibility, observability, and documentation; reduce cognitive load for platform consumers. • Balance Technical Debt and Innovation: Make strategic tradeoffs between feature velocity, technical debt, and platform evolution; use data and ROI frameworks (RICE, etc.) to prioritize initiatives • Improve Developer Experience: Measure and optimize platform adoption, API usability, and developer productivity; build tools and documentation that enable self-service • Navigate Healthcare Complexity: Understand the unique constraints of healthcare systems including compliance, data security, multi-tenancy, and audit requirements; ensure platform solutions meet healthcare standards • Own Operational Excellence: Ensure platform services meet SLAs for availability, performance, and reliability; Establish monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in backend systems, distributed architecture, and platform engineering • 3+ years of engineering management experience leading teams of 6-10+ engineers; proven ability to hire, develop, and retain top talent • Platform Engineering Expertise: You've built middleware, shared services, or platform capabilities that serve multiple applications and teams; you understand what makes a great internal platform • Distributed Systems Experience: Strong understanding of microservices, event-driven architecture, message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ), API design, and service mesh patterns. Experience deploying such services to production at scale. • Backend Technology Depth: Proficiency in modern backend languages (Scala, Java, Python, Go, or similar) and frameworks; experience with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) • Cross-Functional Leadership: Proven ability to lead initiatives across multiple teams; experience working with product managers, designers, and other engineering leaders to drive outcomes • Super Organized and Detail-Oriented: Exceptional project management skills; ability to juggle multiple initiatives, track dependencies, and deliver on commitments; creates clarity from ambiguity. • Technical Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to write clear RFCs, architecture docs, and API specifications; can explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders • Product Mindset: Treats the platform as a product with internal customers; gathers requirements, prioritizes based on impact, and measures adoption and satisfaction

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance • 401(k) with company match • Flexible PTO policy • Remote-first work environment • Professional development budget • Equity compensation • Home office stipend