Senior Software Engineer

ABOUT THIS POSITION

We are looking for an outstanding, brilliant, and driven Senior Software Engineer to join our growing team. While our Software Engineers are involved in multiple things throughout the Technology organization, primarily they are responsible for working with the Technology and the Business teams to design, build, and implement web and process applications. The Senior Software Engineer is also charged with assisting the Client Success department in resolving issues relating to production processes and troubleshooting technical issues.

• Proposes technical solutions to the Manager, Application Engineering
• Designs/develops/tests/implements improvements or new features into the Waystar website and core processing applications
• Develops/augments applications based on functional and technical specifications
• Adheres to Waystar coding standards and approved technologies, proposing amendments when necessary
• Unit tests all changes on development and collaborates with Business and/or Technology Owners to ensure the solution meets business requirements
• Communicates development progress daily to senior-level team members
• Attends to work items assigned through the internal case system in a timely fashion
• Takes ownership of work items, communicates estimates and daily progress as part of the SDLC, and works to resolve blockers
• Assists in the QA process
• Participates in Production Code Turn days, providing deployment instructions and smoke testing post-release
• Maintains open communication with Management and positive relationships with team members
• Assists in creating and/or approving technical specifications
• Assists in identifying areas for refactoring
• Collaborates with departments to design/implement enhancements to the existing web application, including SQL table design, SQL stored procedures, and process design
• Tracks changes using internal tools and communicates abnormalities to QA for progression to production
• Identifies opportunities for refactoring, optimization, or improved technology solutions and informs management
• Notifies the Manager, Application Engineering of problems and works to implement solutions
• Collaborates with the Manager, Application Engineering to reassign items that cannot be addressed promptly
• Provides estimates for project tasks and updates estimates as needed
• Additional duties as assigned

• Experience with statically typed/compiled languages (C#, Java, C, Go)
• Experience with dynamically typed/interpreted languages (JavaScript, Python, PHP)
• Experience with Relational Databases (SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Experience with cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience with Version Control (Git)
• Experience with Unit and Integration Testing Methodologies
• Experience building highly scalable software solutions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and welcome change
• Highly self-motivated

• Experience scaling real-time high availability APIs
• Experience integrating with payment gateways and processors (Stripe, Elavon, , NMI, USAePay, World Pay, TSYS, etc.)
• Experience with finance and banking processes and concepts (merchant accounts, ACH, settlement, etc.)

Waystar helps providers simplify healthcare payments and yield powerful results throughout the complete revenue cycle through a smart platform and better experience.

Waystar’s healthcare payments platform combines cloud-based technology, robust data, and client support to streamline workflows and improve financials so providers can focus on patients and communities. Waystar is trusted by 1M+ providers, 1K+ hospitals and health systems, and connected to over 5K payers. We value honesty, kindness, passion, curiosity, focus, quality work, and collaboration.

Waystar products have won multiple Best in KLAS or Category Leader awards since 2010 and earned multiple #1 rankings from Black Book surveys since 2012. The Waystar platform supports thousands of providers, hospitals, and payers. For more information, visit  or follow @Waystar on Twitter.

• Competitive total rewards (base salary + bonus, if applicable)
• Customizable benefits package…