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Candidhealth

Software Engineer (Senior)

San Francisco

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Role family
Engineering
Seniority
Senior
Stated salary
$195,000 – $250,000 per year
Country
US
Work mode
On-site / unstated
First seen by hirly
4 Sept 2026

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The Opportunity

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!

What you’ll be doing

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.

Who you are

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.

Pay Transparency

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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