Senior/Staff Backend Engineer, Claims

Job not on LinkedIn

🔥 1 minute ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $180k - $225k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

👻 Ghost score 8%

What it means: the chance that no one is really hiring for this job.How to read it: 60% or higher means we think this is a ghost. Lower scores are less of a worry.Why this score:

• Just posted.

Apply Now

Find Similar Remote Jobs

Helm Health

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2023

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

Healthcare Insurance • SaaS • B2B

Helm Health is a SaaS platform that partners with TPAs and health insurers/carriers to power “Dynamic Copay” health-plan products. The platform uses upfront, guaranteed prices, granular cost and quality data, smart claim bundling, and an intuitive provider search to drive member engagement, enable value-driven benefit design, and reduce plan costs (the company reports 74% of care is shopped through the platform and ~15% plan savings). Helm enables moving beyond traditional deductible-centric plans by creating simple, guaranteed prices for members while preserving provider fee-for-service reimbursement.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and run production APIs and backend services for provider search, eligibility, copay calculation, and claims adjudication support • Own service contracts, SLOs, and on-call responsibilities • Build multi-tenant and observable services • Design and operate batch and streaming pipelines ingesting payor files, API feeds, and event streams • Implement idempotent, replayable, backfill-friendly pipelines with schema validation, quarantine paths, and reconciliation • Choose appropriate uses for scheduled batch, event streaming, and CDC • Work across provider network data, eligibility and enrollment, claims, and plan design domains • Build reliable, observable, data-quality-focused, provenance-aware, audit-ready systems in a HIPAA-regulated environment • Create reusable ingestion frameworks, shared services, and platform capabilities to support additional payors • Own outcomes for platform reliability, data correctness, and delivery • Remove delivery obstacles and partner with product and engineering leadership on sequenced, shippable plans

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years building and running production systems • Deep expertise in either backend services or data pipelines and hands-on exposure to the other • Experience building batch and streaming pipelines using Beam/Dataflow, Spark, Pub/Sub, Kafka, or equivalents • Experience with orchestration tools such as Dagster or Airflow • Experience with transformation frameworks such as dbt or Dataform • Ability to model data for analytical and low-latency operational serving, including effective-dated and event-sourced patterns • Experience designing, building, and running production APIs and distributed services • Python and/or Go experience, with REST and ideally gRPC • Knowledge of Postgres, caching, queues, and their failure modes • Experience with X12 EDI (834, 837, 835), eligibility, claims, provider data, and/or FHIR, or willingness to learn quickly • Comfort working with PHI under strict privacy controls, including access controls, de-identification, and audit logging • GCP experience preferred, including BigQuery, Cloud Run, and Cloud Storage • Experience with infrastructure as code • Fluency using AI coding tools and agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot • Ability to prompt, provide context, break work into agent-sized pieces, and critically review AI-generated code • Clear, evidence-based opinions on AI tool strengths, limitations, quality, and security • Precise writing, async-first habits, and ability to explain complex systems • Nice to have: ML or agentic systems, health plan or payor-side experience, search and relevance systems, or CDC tooling

🏖️ Benefits

• Base salary + bonus + equity • Unlimited PTO (mandatory 12 days) • Computer + home office stipend • 401(k) + matching • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Autonomy and tons of room for career growth • Quarterly company meetings

📊 Check your resume score for this job

Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply.

Upload Resume