Central is looking for a Software Engineer - Benefits to design and maintain stateful, end-to-end systems for benefits and compliance workflows. You will architect mission-critical systems, iterate rapidly on features, own technical product domains, and leverage AI to automate complex processes.
What You'll Do
- Architect mission-critical workflows: Design, build, and maintain stateful, end-to-end systems that ensure data integrity and meet stringent compliance and reliability requirements.
- Iterate rapidly: Ship incremental, production-ready features in days—prototype, gather real user feedback, and refine relentlessly.
- Own your domain: Act as the technical product lead for core platform areas—setting standards for code quality, observability, testing, and operational excellence.
- Delight and empower customers: Partner with Product and Support to translate user pain points into clean, intuitive solutions that scale from a single startup to enterprise.
- Push the limits with AI: Leverage AI to automate things that were previously impossible and create completely new user experiences.
What We're Looking For
- Experienced systems architect: You’ve designed and delivered large-scale, stateful architectures—modeling complex domains, defining clear data schemas, and ensuring end-to-end reliability.
- Distributed-transaction specialist: You’ve implemented robust patterns for coordinating multi-step workflows across disparate services and third-party APIs—handling two-phase commits, sagas, idempotency, and compensating actions to keep data consistent.
- Deep transactional-pipeline expertise: Comfort building reconciled workflows with audit trails and automated recovery, especially when orchestrating financial or compliance-related operations.
- Reliability-first mindset: You bake in observability, fault tolerance, and graceful degradation from day one.
- Scalability & performance focus: You understand caching, queueing, rate-limiting, and have tuned systems to handle rapid growth without sacrificing latency or correctness.
- Strategic thinker & communicator: You break down complex trade-offs into clear plans, document your designs, and keep cross-functional stakeholders aligned.
- Bias toward action & high standards: You ship prototypes quickly, iterate based on real feedback, and insist on production-ready quality in every release.
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive salary and equity
- Comprehensive benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401k (US employees only)
- Unlimited PTO and sick leave
- Remote work
- 2-4 off-sites per year
Work Mode
This is a fully remote position.
Central's culture is built on thinking clearly, showing high agency, and crafting magic.
