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At Candid Health, we're on a mission to revolutionize healthcare by solving one of its most complex and costly problems: the billing and revenue cycle management (RCM) process. The healthcare system has long been burdened by slow, inefficient workflows that waste valuable resources, leaving providers with less time and money to focus on patient care. With our cutting-edge revenue cycle automation platform, we are transforming this space through an intelligent, data-driven approach that simplifies billing, enhances claims processing, and eliminates administrative waste.
We’re looking for a passionate and skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our fast growing engineering teams. In this role, you will be instrumental in revolutionizing healthcare billing products and systems that directly address the needs of our customers. You will contribute to the full software development lifecycle, ensure high scalable, reliable and performance of our products and customer experience. If you thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, are driven by customer outcomes, and are committed to crafting robust and scalable solutions, we would like you to join us!
Conceptualize, design, development, and maintain complex services/platforms/features and develop ownership over large swaths of our product + infrastructure.
Collaborate closely with customers, product managers, designers, and cross-functional partners to understand customers’ needs and develop creative ways to address them.
Identify, propose and lead architecture and design improvements needed in our products and systems with scalability and reliability as core principles.
Contribute to our engineering + broader company culture and help make this the best place we’ve ever worked.
You have Bachelors of Science or Bachelors of Art in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math or other similar degree.
You have 8+ years of experience in a Software Engineering position.
Experience with programming languages, relevant frameworks, databases and cloud platforms. Familiar with the technologies we currently use is a bonus, but not required: Python, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, React, Typescript, Google Cloud Platform, Auth0, Terraform.
Proven ability to build high-quality software, and is anchored on customer outcomes and have good intuition around which corners are worth cutting and which aren’t.
Proven ability to own features end-to-end and are comfortable learning new tools or moving across the stack to do so.
Customer-first and learner’s mindset, and value teaching others.
Strong communication and collaboration skills. Proven ability to explain complicated ideas in simple terms, both in-person and in writing.
The estimated starting annual salary range for this position is $195,000 to $250,000 USD. The listed range is a guideline from Pave data, and the actual base salary may be modified based on factors including job-related skills, experience/qualifications, interview performance, market data, etc. Total compensation for this position may also include equity, sales incentives (for sales roles), and employee benefits. Given Candid Health’s funding and size, we heavily value the potential upside from equity in our compensation package. Further note that Candid Health has minimal hierarchy and titles, but has broad ranges of experience represented within roles.
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From Candid Health's careers page. First seen Jan 23, 2026, last verified Oct 26, 2026.
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