Senior Software Engineer, Automations

Plenful

$120K — $160K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Seattle, WA
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Experience with distributed systems and workflow orchestration
  • Strong database expertise, including SQL and schema design
  • Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals
  • Ability to manage large-scale data pipelines
  • Proven track record of improving system reliability and performance
  • Strong communication skills for technical engagement

Responsibilities

  • Design and evolve the workflow automation system across serverless and containerized environments
  • Implement reliable scheduling, queuing, rate limiting, and retry logic
  • Build components for distributed task management, including error handling and cleanup
  • Enhance observability and deployment automation in collaboration with DevOps
  • Maintain integrations with various data sources and formats, including healthcare data
  • Develop and operate high-volume file processing pipelines
  • Mentor junior engineers and participate in incident response activities

Benefits

  • Unlimited PTO and fully covered health insurance (medical, dental, and vision)
  • Meal stipend and health & wellness stipend
  • 401(k) matching with stock options
  • Collaborate with a mission-driven, world-class team
  • Opportunities for growth through mentorship from experienced leaders
  • Flexible hybrid/remote work environment in San Francisco or Seattle
Full Job Description
About the role
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design and build systems that power our automations platform. You'll take ownership of major components that will power our platform in the processing of automated workflows. You'll work closely with DevOps, ML/AI, Customer Success, and UX teams.

What you'll do

Core Infrastructure & Workflow Orchestration

  • Contribute to the design and evolution of our workflow automation system that runs across serverless and containerized environments, processing millions of tasks each month.
  • Implement scheduling, queuing, rate limiting, and retry logic for reliable and fair resource allocation.
  • Build components for state tracking, error handling, timeouts, and cleanup across distributed tasks.
  • Collaborate with DevOps to enhance observability, structured logging, tracing, and deployment automation.

External Integrations & Data Pipelines

  • Build and maintain integrations with SFTP, email, databases, spreadsheets, and REST APIs, including credential management and failure recovery.
  • Develop and operate file processing pipelines handling high data volumes across diverse formats (PDF, Excel, CSV, JSON).
  • Work with healthcare data formats (HL7, X12, EDI) and collaborate with ML/AI teams on data pipelines for model training and inference.
  • Create and maintain webhook handlers, polling services, and event-driven workflows.

Technical Impact & Collaboration

  • Take ownership of complex backend projects from design through deployment.
  • Participate in architectural discussions, propose improvements, and help drive high reliability and maintainability standards.
  • Contribute to reducing technical debt and improving operational efficiency.
  • Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and technical discussions.
  • Participate in incident response and postmortems with a focus on prevention and system resilience. text

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Experience with distributed systems, workflow orchestration, automated systems, and event-driven pipelines at scale.
  • Strong database expertise: SQL, schema design, and performance optimization.
  • Solid computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, system design).
  • Experience with large-scale data pipelines
  • Ability to take ownership of projects and collaborate effectively across engineering, DevOps, ML teams, and UX teams.
  • Proven experience improving reliability, performance, and maintainability in production systems.
  • Strong communication skills for technical discussions and documentation.

Plenful perks

  • Comprehensive Benefits Package: Enjoy unlimited PTO, fully covered health insurance (medical, dental, and vision), meal stipend, health & wellness stipend, 401(k) matching, and stock options
  • Mission-Driven, World-Class Team: Join an exceptional group of professionals aligned around a meaningful mission and committed to making an impact
  • Opportunities for Growth: Strengthen your partnership expertise through collaboration with experienced, high-performing leaders across the organization
  • FlexibleHybrid/Remote Work Environment: San Francisco Headquartered (Hybrid), Remote option for Seattle. Must be located in either metropolitan area.

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