Senior Software Engineer
About Take Command
Take Command is a start-up on a mission to improve the healthcare system, starting with health insurance. Pragmatically speaking, we help employers reimburse employees for individual insurance instead of offering a traditional one-size-fits-all group plan. We believe this model can empower employees (when they have the right support) to be savvy healthcare consumers and have a transformative impact on the entire healthcare system.
Let’s be honest—health insurance is usually a confusing, frustrating, and even emotional experience for people. We want to fix that with a new model, great technology, and a superior user experience. We have made a great start, but we need your help to fully realize our long-term vision.
About the Role
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who can independently build meaningful product and platform capabilities across Take Command. You’ll be assigned to one of our product squads based on company needs, your experience, and your interests. Our squads work across areas like insurance shopping, benefits administration, money movement, reimbursement workflows, operational tools, and the platform services behind them.
This is a backend-leaning full-stack role. Technologies used include Java, Postgres, AWS, React, and TypeScript. Our backend is primarily Java today, and we value engineers who can help us evolve the stack thoughtfully over time.
As a senior individual contributor, you’ll be expected to own meaningful work end to end, make strong technical decisions, and contribute to product and technical direction within your team.
What You’ll Do
Design, build, and maintain product and platform capabilities within your squad, including services, APIs, data models, and integrations
Write technical designs and contribute to design discussions for meaningful product and platform changes
Build frontend experiences in partnership with product and design
Work with product managers, designers, and engineers to turn ambiguous problems into practical solutions
Improve existing systems as you work, including code, tests, documentation, and operational patterns
What We’re Looking For
Strong experience building production software in a backend-leaning full-stack role, ideally with Java or a similar language
Experience with relational databases, especially data modeling for real product systems
Experience working with distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, or microservices
Ability to take ownership of a problem, clarify ambiguity, and drive implementation
Good product judgment and an interest in how your work affects customers, internal users, operations, and the business
Pragmatic technical judgment about when to keep things simple, when to invest more deeply, and how to make tradeoffs
Clear communication and the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, product, design, and business partners
Compensation
$140,000 - $195,000 + 10%
We believe employees should be compensated fairly based on the market in which they live and work. Using geographic market data helps us maintain competitive pay, support internal equity, and ensure a consistent approach to compensation decisions across the company.
Working at Take Command
We’re excited to build a team and culture that reflects our values! We offer competitive pay and health benefits to share with this position.
A generously funded ICHRA for medical, dental, and vision premiums and medical expenses. You get to use our own product and we think that’s so exciting and rare!
Unlimited personal vacation in addition to regular company holidays.
401(k): 90-day eligibility for 4% match that vests over 4 years with a one year cliff!
We have two beautiful offices in Richardson, Texas (City Line) and Austin, Texas. The kitchen is well-stocked and we've designed the space to have lots of different areas to work--lounge on the couch, stand near your colleague at a kiosk desk or hole up in one of our phone rooms!
Competitive parental leave for new parents.
Up to two paid days of Paw-ternity leave. We recognize that pets are family too - and supporting life outside of work (including four-legged members) matters!
ClassPass corporate membership with access to over 73,000 fitness and wellness options.
Flexible on where you work – we believe in the power of connecting with intention! While we hope to see you around the office on a regular basis, you also have the ability to work from home some when you need to get focus work done.
More About Us
We secured our Series B funding in 2023 and are thrilled to be able to expand our team. Despite being a small startup in a land of health insurance giants, we’re the recognized industry leader for what we do (health insurance reimbursements) and passionate about bringing it to market because we know we can help fix a broken system and improve our clients’ wellbeing and health outcomes. We’ve been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Dallas Morning News, and other national healthcare publications and are excited about our growth opportunities.
Take Command knows diversity and inclusion among our teammates is integral to our company’s success and growth. Our vision is to recruit, develop, and retain the best team from a diverse candidate pool. This has mostly been about us, but we’d love to hear from you--we can’t wait to hear your story!
*Take Command is an equal opportunity employer! We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.