Staff Software Engineer – Payments & Ledger
About the Role
Take Command is building the financial foundation for a better health insurance experience. As more employers use our platform to reimburse employees for individual insurance, how money moves through our system becomes critical to making that experience affordable, reliable, and easy to understand.
We’re looking for a Staff Engineer with real experience building ledger, payments, card, reimbursement, or money movement systems in production.
This is a senior role with meaningful influence over the technical and product direction of our financial systems. You’ll help us make sound architectural decisions, avoid common pitfalls in financial system design, and raise the team’s understanding of proven ledger and payment patterns.
The role is full-stack, but heavily backend-leaning. Most of your work will be in Java, Postgres, and AWS, with occasional React work where needed. Over time, we expect more of our stack to move toward TypeScript, and you’ll have an opportunity to help shape that transition.
What You'll Do
Drive architecture and implementation for ledger, payments, and money movement capabilities, both through your own contributions and by guiding technical decisions across the team
Design systems that handle financial events, balances, reimbursements, payment states, reconciliation, reversals, and related workflows
Build reliable backend services, integrations, and data models for systems where correctness matters
Partner with product and engineering leaders to shape the direction of our financial platform
Bring practical experience from production financial systems to help us avoid common mistakes and choose proven patterns
Mentor other engineers and help establish strong engineering patterns for financial systems
This role doesn’t require people management, but the opportunity does exist
What We're Looking For
Significant experience building and operating production financial systems
Hands-on experience with ledgers, payment systems, card payments, banking integrations, reimbursements, or similar money movement infrastructure
Strong backend engineering experience, ideally with Java or a similar language
Strong relational database experience, especially with data models that require accuracy, traceability, and long-term maintainability
Ability to lead through technical judgment, clear communication, mentorship, and execution
Comfort working through ambiguous product and technical problems
A product-minded approach to engineering, with an interest in how technical decisions affect customers, operations, and the business
Pragmatic judgment about when to invest deeply, when to keep things simple, and how to make tradeoffs without losing sight of financial integrity
Compensation
$165,000 - $235,000 + 15% bonus
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.