2 months ago
Base Salary
$161k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve backend systems supporting enrollments, payments, payroll, and benefits management.
- Architect and maintain data models and fund flows for high-volume financial transactions.
- Build integrations with payroll providers, banks, insurance carriers, and other external partners.
- Improve operations through automation, tooling, monitoring, and observability.
- Partner with product, operations, and engineering teams on complex business problems.
- Own production systems, including reliability, debugging, and long-term maintainability.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to technical direction.
Requirements
- Experience building and maintaining backend systems in production.
- A track record of shipping systems with complex business and operational implications.
- Strong ability to reason about data models, workflows, and edge cases.
- Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces and making cross-functional tradeoffs.
- Experience mentoring engineers or setting technical direction.
- Experience in healthcare, finance, or other complex or regulated domains is valued.
- Experience with HR, payroll, payments, or partner-facing systems is valued.
- Prior Ruby experience is helpful but not required.
Benefits
- Fully distributed work arrangement.
- Estimated annual compensation range of $161,000—$230,000 USD.
- Thoughtful, rigorous, and efficient interview process typically completed within three weeks.
Tech Stack
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About Thatch
Thatch builds an all-in-one platform for employers to design, fund, and administer personalized healthcare benefits for their teams. It supports budgets, HSAs, and portable health spending accounts, with member-facing tools that personalize coverage and spending and back-end financial infrastructure for payments and compliance. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, Thatch is privately held and operates as a fully distributed company serving U.S. employers.