Lead Software Engineer, Backend | Product

Machinify is a leading healthcare intelligence company specializing in delivering value and efficiency to health plan clients. They are seeking a skilled Lead Software Engineer with deep Rust experience to design and build scalable web application systems while mentoring and elevating the team's Rust capabilities.

Responsibilities:

• Rust Coach/Multiplier - An expert Rust engineer who not only builds production-grade systems in Rust, but also sets standards, mentors others, and elevates the team’s overall Rust maturity. Serving as a technical authority on Rust idioms, safety, and performance, and helps teams adopt Rust effectively and sustainably
• Contribute to new product development of complex in-browser applications, taking advantage of your holistic view to ensure our application is extensible, scalable, and secure
• Balance customer-facing features and technical debt cleanup to keep the software suite sustainable
• Architect and implement complex applications that apply ML techniques to large volumes of data, simplifying labor-intensive processes through good user experience
• Design systems that work together to deliver a good-performing, reliable application

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience spread across both frontend and backend programming
• Expert Rust developer
• Additional experience with languages in use on all layers of the stack: Java, TypeScript, and JavaScript; Scala or Rust experience a strong plus
• Experience reading and understanding complex code and improving it
• Experience owning code quality through testing
• Critical thinking and problem solving skills working in a high growth environment
• A collaborative approach to problem-solving
• Curiosity and the ability to learn new things on the job
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to help resolve it
• BS or MS in Computer Science (or equivalent experience)