Staff Software Engineer, Accounts & Ledgering at Commure
Mountain View, CA
$210,000–$275,000
Jul 19, 2026
Mountain View, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Staff Software Engineer role focused on designing and operating the core financial ledger infrastructure within a healthcare revenue cycle management platform. The work centers on building an immutable, event-driven accounting system that tracks insurance payments, patient balances, adjustments, and refunds — keeping posting engines, bank reconciliation, and financial reports in consistent agreement at scale. Best suited to senior backend engineers with hands-on experience in financial systems such as billing, payments, or ledger design, and deep comfort with large relational databases.
Staff level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 10,700 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 3,150–16,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
No compensation range is stated in the posting.
Python is listed as 'preferred' within the required qualifications block ('Strong backend engineering (Python preferred)') — it is the named language in a hard-requirements section, so it is treated as a required skill, but the parenthetical qualifier is noted here for transparency.
Financial systems experience (payments, billing, reconciliation, ledgers, double-entry accounting, idempotency) is a hard gate stated in the required qualifications section; no single named tool is called out, so it is captured as a domain requirement.
Distributed tracing, monitoring, alerting, SLOs, dashboards, and logging are all called out as hard requirements under 'What You Have'; these are grouped under 'observability' and 'distributed tracing' as the most concrete named practices.
Healthcare RCM, 835/ERA, bank reconciliation, event sourcing/CDC, BAI2, and high-throughput batch pipelines all appear under the 'Bonus points' section and are marked preferred accordingly.
Kafka is not explicitly named; it is inferred as a representative tool for the 'unified event stream' and 'event-sourced/CDC architectures' mentioned in the bonus section — listed as preferred.
The role explicitly titles itself 'Staff Software Engineer' and the requirements (8+ years, architecture ownership, cross-team influence, mentoring Staff engineers) are consistent with Staff-level scope.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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