Lead Rust Software Engineer

Machinify is a leading healthcare intelligence company with expertise across the payment continuum, delivering unmatched value, transparency, and efficiency to health plan clients across the country. Deployed by over 85 health plans, including many of the top 20, and representing more than 270 million lives, Machinify brings together a fully configurable and content-rich, AI-powered platform along with best-in-class expertise. We’re constantly reimagining what’s possible in our industry, creating disruptively simple, powerfully clear ways to maximize financial outcomes and drive down healthcare costs.

We're looking for a skilled Staff/Lead Software Engineer with deep Rust experience to join our expanding Subrogate engineering team!

In this role, you will leverage your deep programming expertise to design and build scalable, reliable web application systems. The ideal candidate has strong experience in application design, system architecture, as well as proven team ownership skills to drive new language adoption and best practices in Rust.

You'll join a highly visible engineering team trusted to solve complex, high-stakes problems using the best of AI, data and software systems. They’re responsible for writing code that has a significant impact on our customers and future product lines. Our team partners cross-functionally to influence product direction, work directly with customers, and own systems positively impacting millions of lives—where your technical decisions truly matter!

What You’ll Do

• 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

What You Bring

• 10+ years of experience spread across backend programming (additional full-stack experienced highly desired) 


• Expert Rust developer


• Additional experience with languages in use on all layers of the stack: Java, TypeScript, and JavaScript; Scala 


• 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)

The salary for this position is based on an array of factors unique to each candidate: Such as years and depth of experience, set skills, certifications, etc. We are hiring for different levels, and our Recruiting team will let you know if you qualify for a different role/range. Salary is one component of the total compensation package, which includes meaningful equity, excellent healthcare, flexible time off, and other benefits and perks.

Pay range: $210,000-250,000.00