Staff Product Engineer
About the role
The Problem We're Solving
Most people don't think twice about going to the doctor. But for over 85 million uninsured and underinsured Americans — the cashiers, drivers, home health aides, and construction workers who keep this country running — getting care is complicated, expensive, and often out of reach.
We built Vitable to change that.
Vitable is the health benefits platform designed for every worker. We make it easy for employers to offer real, high-quality healthcare to their teams — not watered-down coverage, but benefits that actually work. It's better for employees. It's smarter for employers. And it matters.
We're a small, passionate team moving fast and solving a problem that genuinely deserves solving. If you're looking for a place where your work has a tangible impact on real people's lives, you've found it.
Where You Come In
This is a senior technical leadership role for an engineer who has built the systems behind money at scale: ledgers, reconciliation engines, payment rails, compliance-critical workflows. You've operated in fintech environments where inaccuracy has consequences, auditability is non-negotiable, and downtime carries real cost. You know what it takes to build systems that financial regulators can inspect and that operations teams can trust.
You'll partner with Product, Finance, Operations, and Engineering leadership to own the design and delivery of Vitable's most critical financial and transactional infrastructure — and influence how engineering is practiced across the company.
Within your first year, you will:
- Own and deliver multiple company-critical financial infrastructure initiatives — on time, with a high bar for reliability and auditability.
- Materially improve the integrity, observability, and scalability of Vitable's payment and transactional systems.
- Raise the technical bar: stronger design reviews, clearer architectural patterns, better-tested and more traceable systems.
- Be the person the team reaches for when the problem is hard, ambiguous, or high-stakes.
- Build systems that can support Vitable's next phase of growth while maintaining the trust of our customers, partners, and regulators.
What You'll Do (The Details)
Payments & Financial Infrastructure Ownership
- Design and own the systems that move, track, and reconcile money — including payment rails, ledgering, invoicing, and carrier settlement workflows.
- Build bank-agnostic architectures that can integrate with multiple payment processors, banking partners, and financial data providers.
- Ensure data integrity, idempotency, and correctness across all transactional systems, with end-to-end auditability and traceability built in from day one.
- Lead initiatives to improve observability and operational reliability in high-stakes financial workflows.
Technical & Architectural Leadership
- Drive architectural decisions across multiple product and engineering teams, setting a high bar for reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
- Establish technical standards and engineering practices — from system design to code review — that scale with the organization.
- Serve as a force multiplier: mentor engineers, run design reviews, and help the team grow into harder problems.
- Lead complex, multi-team initiatives from concept through deployment and long-term ownership.
Compliance & Regulated Systems
- Build systems that meet the requirements of regulated environments.