Senior Back-End Engineer I: Claims Engine

Helm Health

2d•$150,000 - $225,000•Remote

About The Position

We're seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Claims Engine team. You'll work across three critical areas: our 270/271 Benefit Estimate API, claims adjudication integrations, and claims processing pipelines. This role sits at the core of how we process and price healthcare claims, and you'll own services that are essential to our product and our clients' operations.

Requirements

4+ years building, owning, and maintaining backend services
2+ years writing Go
Strong SQL skills, particularly PostgreSQL
Experience with Redis and BigQuery (or similar analytical databases)
Experience designing and building RESTful or gRPC APIs
Experience with thorough testing strategies
Docker/Kubernetes
Google Cloud Platform

Nice To Haves

gRPC/Protobuf experience
Health insurance or claims processing experience
Experience with 270/271 transactions or healthcare EDI
Terraform/Terraform Cloud
Python proficiency
Incident management and response experience
Start-up experience

Responsibilities

Build and maintain services that power 270/271 benefit estimate requests and responses.
Develop and support performant, large-scale claims adjudication integrations.
Own and improve claims processing pipelines for accuracy, reliability, and throughput.
Write and maintain documentation for API contracts, data flows, and integration specifications.
Write performant queries and manage data across PostgreSQL, Redis, and BigQuery.
Collaborate with product and other engineering teams to translate complex healthcare workflows into reliable backend services.
Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and incident response.
Contribute to the on-call rotation for production systems.