About Carrot:
Carrot Fertility is the leading global fertility, family-building, and lifelong hormonal healthcare platform providing care for everyone, everywhere. Trusted by more than a thousand multinational employers, health plans, and health systems, Carrot's comprehensive clinical program delivers industry-leading cost savings for employers and award-winning experiences for millions of people worldwide. From maternity through menopause and pre-pregnancy through parenting, Carrot is dedicated to expanding access and improving outcomes. Carrot empowers members with compassionate, personalized, and inclusive support.
The Role:
We are looking for a Lead Engineer, Payments to join our Product and Engineering Team. As the technical lead for Carrot’s financial systems, you will focus on payments infrastructure and take ownership of building secure, scalable systems that move money reliably to members and customers worldwide. This is a highly visible, hands-on role where your work will directly improve access to fertility and family-forming care for people who may not otherwise be able to afford it.
As a foundational member of our financial engineering function, you’ll shape the long-term direction of our payments architecture. You will own technical outcomes, influence roadmaps, and collaborate across teams to deliver scalable solutions that meet evolving business needs. You thrive in fast-paced environments, take initiative in the face of ambiguity, and balance quick wins with long-term planning.
You’ll partner with Product, Finance, and other teams to design and build secure, resilient systems. Your work will include integrating external SaaS tools and building internal infrastructure that is accurate, compliant, and easy to maintain. While the focus is backend and systems architecture, this is a full-stack role. You should be confident in contributing across the stack, including APIs, frontend, and infrastructure.
This is also a people management role. You will lead and support a small team of engineers, providing regular feedback, coaching, and career development. You’ll foster a culture of trust, inclusion, and delivery while helping the team navigate ambiguity and align with business priorities.
The Team:
Minimum Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Compensation:
Carrot offers a holistic Total Rewards package designed to support our employees in all aspects of their life inside and outside of work, including health and wellness benefits, retirement savings plans, short- and long-term incentives, parental leave, family-forming assistance, and a competitive compensation package. The starting base salary for this position will range from $150,000.00 - $170,000.00. Actual compensation may vary from posted base salary depending on your confirmed job-related skills and experience.
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Why Carrot?
Carrot has received national and international recognition for its pioneering work, including Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies and World Changing Ideas, Inc. Power Partners, and Modern Healthcare’s Innovators. Carrot’s global workforce has been acknowledged with several accolades, including Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Healthcare, Great Place to Work, and Age-Friendly Employer certifications. Carrot is regularly featured in media reporting on issues related to the future of work, women in leadership, and healthcare innovation, including MSNBC, The Economist, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, National Public Radio, Harvard Business Review, and more. Learn more at carrotfertility.com.
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