About the role
As an engineer on the brokers team, you’ll build user facing products that enable brokers to best guide their clients through the process of providing healthcare benefits through Thatch. Many employers trust their broker to help them navigate the health benefits landscape and many brokers entrust their clients with Thatch. You will work with fellow engineers, engineering managers and cross-functional partners to design and support the creation of end-to-end product experiences that help brokers manage their clients base offering benefits through Thatch.
If multiple software engineer roles might be a fit for you, apply to any one, and we’ll work together to find the best match.
- Build experiences for brokers, providing them with tools to provide their clients with healthcare cost quotes and tracking the progress of their clients setting up their Thatch account.
- Iterate on the broker dashboard making it easier and more efficient to use.
- Work with a wide range of systems, processes, and technologies to own and solve problems from end-to-end.
- Uphold our high engineering standards and bring consistency to the codebase.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as product, design, marketing and operations to build new features and products.
- Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack.
- 4+ years of experience building web applications as a full-stack engineer, ideally at a tech company, with flexibility for exceptional candidates.
- Strong understanding of user interface and user experience principles and best practices.
- Experience building software in modern languages and frameworks (we’re currently using Ruby, TypeScript, React, TailwindCSS, and more). We believe languages can be learned, so we welcome you to apply if you're proficient with any modern language.
- Excitement about building systems from first principles and operating in an ambiguous environment.
- We hire for potential — even if you don't meet all the criteria listed here, we encourage you to apply!
- Experience or interest in finance, healthcare, or benefits
- Experience taking new products from conception to reality.
We interview rigorously based on integrity, talent, and drive; the trust we display in our teammates is a reflection of the confidence we have in this process. We aim to evaluate the things you’ll do daily as best we can, and we move quickly — the entire interview process is typically complete within 2 weeks.
We’re a fully distributed early stage company using technology to change the way America does healthcare. We’re a happy, friendly, high-velocity team. You can read more on Thatch here.
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