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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer - **Company:** Zocdoc, Inc. - **Location:** New York, NY, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $211,100.0 - $285,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Data Integrity, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Programming, Systems Integration, Reliability of Systems, Generative AI, Backend - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-software-engineer-billing-zocdoc-7937676 ## About the Role * Motivated by solving complex financial and architectural puzzles that have a direct impact on company revenue and provide transparency to our providers. * A technical leader who thrives on end-to-end ownership-driving projects from the early stages of research and technical design through to team planning, implementation, and a high-impact launch. * Highly analytical and detail-oriented, especially when it comes to data integrity and system reliability. * A collaborative leader who excels at cross-squad collaboration and finds joy in bringing people together to solve a challenge. * Someone who thrives on collaborative problem-solving and expects to learn as much from your world-class coworkers as you teach them. * The type of person who takes genuine pride & pleasure in ensuring the numbers foot every single time., * Meaningful (8+) years of engineering experience building and scaling high-performance backend services, ETLs, and APIs within event-driven, distributed systems-ideally in environments where data reliability and integrity are paramount. * Familiarity with cloud-native environments (e.g., AWS) and the desire to own your team's infrastructure (as code!). * The mentality of an owner with an unrelenting desire to drive projects to completion; you view ambiguity as an opportunity to provide technical clarity rather than a blocker. * Integrated generative AI tools into daily workflows to automate tasks, foster innovation, and maximize productivity. * Leadership experience steering teams toward best-in-class testing, deployment, and observability practices that amplify output and quality. * Superb communication skills! You believe in keeping all of your stakeholders and teammates in the loop and know that multiple mediums of communication are the key to success. * A growth mindset rooted in humility, inclusivity, and curiosity-you value diverse perspectives, enjoy learning from your mentees, and lead by example to foster a collaborative engineering culture. ## Description * Leading the architectural direction of Zocdoc's billing system as we build for the future - thinking how we can scale billing as the number of providers, patients, and products we support grow. * Building, maintaining, and improving modern, event driven workflow billing workflows and pricing algorithm systems. * Collaborating with Finance, Product, & Design to figure out how we can solve for provider and internal billing needs with efficient technical solutions. * Working with your engineering peers to define and implement best practices that ensure high code quality and system reliability for all new features and services. * Ensuring the ongoing accuracy and stability of the billing engine and financial data, and triaging any issues that arise (always with the team's support). * Integrating the latest edge GenAI tools and technology to optimize technical planning and coding efficiency across your team and the broader engineering organization. ## Related Videos - [Developing the Backend with Stefan Lingler, CTO at Shpock](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100360-developing-the-backend-with-stefan-lingler-cto-at-shpock) - [Your imaginations is (no longer) the limit: how Generative AI empowers people to be creative](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/741-your-imaginations-is-no-longer-the-limit-how-generative-ai-empowers-people-to-be-creative) - [Exploring 5 Key Applications of AI Abundance with Blockchain Assurance](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/971-exploring-5-key-applications-of-ai-abundance-with-blockchain-assurance) - [Throwing off the burdens of scale in engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/608-throwing-off-the-burdens-of-scale-in-engineering) - [Nest.js - TypeScript in the backend can also be clean](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1033-nest-js-typescript-in-the-backend-can-also-be-clean) - [Empowering Thousands of Developers: Our Journey to an Internal Developer Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1519-empowering-thousands-of-developers-our-journey-to-an-internal-developer-platform) ## Related Articles - [How to Answer the Interview Question: “Why Do You Want to Be a Software Engineer?”](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/392-how-to-answer-the-interview-question-why-do-you-want-to-be-a-software-engineer) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [The Best X (Twitter) Accounts for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/294-the-best-x-twitter-accounts-for-developers) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Top Characteristics of a Software Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/166-top-characteristics-of-a-software-engineer)