# Staff Software Engineer at Payzen Inc

> Hybrid · United States · Staff · Software engineering · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/ashby%3Apayzen-inc%3Af62c00cd-e17c-4e90-a1c3-b1b108f3d517 (read 2026-11-12).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Payzen Inc](https://alderhq.app/companies/payzen-inc)
- Location text: San Francisco HQ
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Hybrid · United States (evidence: "Location: San Francisco HQ")
- Posted: 2026-07-28 (106 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-07 · last verified: 2026-11-08
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/payzen-inc/f62c00cd-e17c-4e90-a1c3-b1b108f3d517
- Skills listed (inferred): TypeScript, Python, Go, Java

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: $230k–$270k per year (from the listing's pay field)
- Market band for similar posted roles (SF Bay Area, n 1146): p25 $205k, median $240k, p75 $284k

## Description (the employer's text)

### 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.

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