# Staff Software Engineer - Company: [Payzen Inc]() - Location: San Francisco HQ - Remote: Yes - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: $230K – $270K - Posted: July 28, 2026 ## Job description ## About PayZen PayZen is on a mission to bring financial health to healthcare. Our products improve both access and affordability for patients and cash flow and administrative complexity for medical providers. We are trusted by a rapidly growing number of health systems, hospitals, and physician groups and are backed by leading venture capital investors, including NEA, SignalFire, Viola Group, and 7Wire Ventures. ## About the Role We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer — a senior individual contributor who works across multiple systems on open-ended problems, in close collaboration with peers. At this level, your impact reaches well beyond your own workstream. You work across Care Finance's provider and partner platform — the systems that connect PayZen to health systems and partners — on a months-long horizon, keeping them reliable under HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and SOC 2 controls. ## Responsibilities **Set the Craft Standard** Bring expert craft and systems thinking, and teach others as you go. Use AI-native approaches to make work that was impossible a quarter ago the new baseline. **Find the Problems Others Miss** Find the problems others miss, and shape solutions that strengthen PayZen's data asset and expand what the platform can own across the patient financial lifecycle. **Drive Workstreams End-to-End** Drive workstream delivery end-to-end. Set ambitious but feasible milestones, sequence work to deliver value early, and unblock others proactively. **Shape Direction Cross-Functionally** Shape the direction of your product surface with cross-functional partners, and adjust your approach through pivots without losing momentum. **Coach and Give Feedback** Coach others on compounding their impact, give actionable feedback across workstreams, and advocate for strong candidates at the hiring bar. **Build Leverage for the Team** Build tools and systems that create structural leverage for the team, multiplying your impact well beyond your own workstream. ## Requirements * 8+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale. * Expert craft and strong systems thinking across multiple systems or surfaces. * A track record of finding high-impact problems others miss and driving solutions end-to-end. * Experience setting ambitious but feasible milestones and sequencing work to deliver value early. * Hands-on proficiency in at least one of Java, Go, Python, or TypeScript; you write and review code daily. * Experience building tools or shared systems that make a whole team faster. * Working knowledge of application security and compliance-regulated environments; HIPAA, PCI-DSS, or * SOC 2 exposure preferred. * A habit of coaching peers and giving actionable feedback. ## Apply [Apply on Payzen Inc]() Canonical job page: