Staff Product Engineer

Vitable Health

Staff Product Engineer at Vitable Health leading the design and delivery of financial infrastructure. Building systems for payment processing and regulatory compliance in a remote-first environment.

Posted 5/30/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDjangoJavaScriptKafkaPostgresPythonReactRuby on RailsSQLTypeScriptVue.js

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.
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.
Drive architectural decisions across multiple product and engineering teams, setting a high bar for reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
Establish technical standards and engineering practices 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.
Build systems that meet the requirements of regulated environments — including HIPAA, SOC 2, and financial compliance frameworks such as PCI or state insurance regulations.
Design audit trails, compliance controls, and reporting mechanisms that satisfy both internal and external stakeholders.
Partner with legal, compliance, and finance teams to translate regulatory requirements into durable technical solutions.
Collaborate closely with Product, Finance, and Operations to understand business challenges and translate them into scalable, resilient systems.
Influence product strategy through deep technical context — surfacing tradeoffs, flagging risks, and identifying platform leverage points.
Balance speed with architectural health; know when to move fast and when to slow down and do it right.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Demonstrated experience at the Staff Engineer level or equivalent senior individual contributor scope.
A track record of leading and delivering large-scale, cross-team technical initiatives in production environments.
Deep experience designing and operating distributed systems: service-oriented architectures, event-driven systems, async processing, and high-availability infrastructure.
Proven ability to influence without authority and build alignment across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
Hands-on experience building payment platforms, money movement systems, financial ledgers, or banking integrations at meaningful scale.
Deep understanding of transactional integrity, idempotency, financial reconciliation, and audit trail design.
Experience with bank-agnostic or multi-rail payment architectures — ACH, wire, card networks, or similar.
Familiarity with compliance controls relevant to financial platforms: KYC/AML workflows, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, or equivalent regulated environments.
Strong intuition for where money movement systems fail — and how to build defensively against it.
Expert-level Python experience; strong command of Django and Django REST Framework.
Deep understanding of API design, distributed systems, and event-driven / asynchronous processing patterns.
Strong proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript; experience with Vue.js or React.
Ability to contribute full-stack when needed.
Advanced SQL; PostgreSQL schema and data model design for transactional and reporting workloads.
Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS (including infrastructure-as-code).
Strong observability instincts: monitoring, alerting, tracing, and incident management tooling.
Event-driven architecture experience: messaging systems (e.g., Kafka, SQS, Celery) and event sourcing patterns.

Benefits

Comp & perks

100% Silver Plan medical coverage — plus dental and vision
Vitable Primary Care membership — the same care we give our members, yours too
401(k) and life insurance
Unlimited PTO — and we actually mean it
Remote-first — work from wherever you do your best thinking
MacBook and home office setup stipend — the gear you need to do great work
Competitive equity — you're building something real, you should own a piece of it

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonDjangoDjango REST FrameworkJavaScriptTypeScriptVue.jsReactSQLPostgreSQLAWS

Soft Skills

leadershipinfluence without authoritycollaborationmentoringproblem-solvingcommunicationalignment buildingdesign reviewarchitectural decision-makingscalability

Certifications

HIPAASOC 2PCI-DSS