As a Senior Software Engineer at Gravie, you will design and optimize payment and financial systems, ensuring compliance and high performance while collaborating across teams.
Hi, we’re Gravie. Our mission is to improve the way people purchase and access healthcare through innovative, consumer-centric health benefit solutions that people can actually use. Our industry-changing products and services are developed and delivered by a diverse group of unique people. We encourage you to be your authentic self - we like you that way.
A Little More About The role:
We are seeking an experienced and passionate Senior Software Engineer to join our growing team, focusing specifically on our critical payment and financial systems within the healthcare domain. In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and optimizing robust, secure, and scalable solutions that drive our financial operations and ensure seamless transactions for our partners and patients. You will leverage your experience and modern engineering practices to build the next generation of our payment infrastructure.
You will:
· Design, develop, test, and deploy complex payment and financial systems, ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability.
· Collaborate closely with managers, business analysts, and other engineering teams to translate business requirements into technical specifications and innovative solutions.
· Implement secure, compliant solutions that adhere to healthcare industry regulations (e.g., HIPAA, PCI-DSS) and financial standards.
· Drive technical excellence through code reviews and the promotion of best practices in software development.
· Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues related to payment processing, financial reconciliation, and data integrity.
· Identify and implement opportunities for system optimization, automation, and efficiency gains.
· Demonstrate commitment to our core competencies of being authentic, curious, creative, empathetic and outcome oriented.
You bring:
· Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
· 5+ years of hands-on experience as a software engineer and a passion for writing code.
· An eagerness to learn more and enjoyment of providing and receiving critical feedback.
· Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, Event-Based Systems).
· Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL).
· Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and microservices architectures.
· Experience with API design and development (RESTful, GraphQL).
· Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug complex issues across multiple systems.
· Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
· Ability to work independently and as part of a highly collaborative team in a fast-paced environment.
· You must be eligible to work in the United States without need of sponsorship now or in the future.
Extra credit:
· Experience with healthcare payment or financial systems and frameworks.
· Experience with real-time payment processing or high-throughput transaction systems.
· Contributions to open-source projects or a strong GitHub profile.
· Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
· Prior experience in a startup or fast-paced, high-growth environment.
· Passion for engineering culture, continuous improvement, and shaping team norms.
Gravie:
In order to transform health insurance and build a health plan everyone can love, we need talented people doing amazing work. In exchange, we offer a great overall employee experience with opportunities for career growth, meaningful mission-driven work, and an above average total rewards package.
The salary range for this position is $109,800 - $183,000 annually. Numerous factors including, but not limited to, educations, skills, work experience, certifications, etc. will be considered when determining compensation.
Our unique benefits program is the gravy, i.e., the special sauce that sets our compensation package apart. In addition to standard health and wellness benefits, Gravie’s package includes alternative medicine coverage, flexible PTO, up to 16 weeks paid parental leave, paid holidays, a 401k program, cell phone reimbursement, transportation perks, education reimbursement, and 1 week of paid paw-ternity leave.
A Little More About Us:
At Gravie, we're on a mission to reinvent health benefits for small and midsize businesses—making high-quality, affordable healthcare accessible to employers and their employees. We believe better benefits lead to better lives, and we’re building the future of health benefits to reflect just that.
We’re proud to be the only company offering both innovative level-funded health plans and a market-leading ICHRA solution, giving employers more choice and flexibility than ever before.
And guess what? Our customers love us. With member and employer satisfaction rates consistently trending above 80%, we know our health plans are working the way they should. Backed by some of the most sought-after investors in the country, we have the resources and long-term support to build something truly transformative—and we’re just getting started.
At Gravie, we do things differently. We’ll challenge you, and we’ll welcome you challenging us. Good ideas are everyone's job here. You’ll join a team that’s smart, mission-driven, and unafraid to push boundaries if it means making a bigger impact for the people we serve.
If you're energized by a high-performance, high-trust environment where your voice matters, Gravie might be just the place for you.
Top Skills
AWS
Azure
GCP
GraphQL
Java
MySQL
Postgres
Python
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