Staff Software Engineer

Rugiet Health

Location: Remote
Workplace: Remote
Employment: Full Time
Salary: —

Posted 1mo ago

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Responsibilities

Own architecture and technical design for complex initiatives across the Rails + React stack, balancing pragmatism with long-term maintainability.
Break down ambiguous product and platform problems into clear technical plans, milestones, and trade-offs.
Evolve our system boundaries (services, modules, contracts) as the product and team scale.
Define standards for code quality, testing, observability, and performance—and ensure they are applied consistently across teams.
Make thoughtful build-vs-buy decisions and introduce new technologies where they create real leverage.
Partner closely with Product, Design, Operations, and Clinical teams to turn business goals into resilient, scalable solutions.
Lead end-to-end delivery for critical projects: discovery, design reviews, implementation, rollout, and post-launch iteration.
Balance short-term feature delivery with longer-term platform investments (e.g., refactors, migrations, performance and reliability work).
Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including risks, trade-offs, and timelines.
Mentor senior and mid-level engineers through design reviews, pairing, and thoughtful feedback.
Model excellent engineering practices: clear RFCs, high-quality PRs, testable designs, and crisp incident write-ups.
Help shape our engineering culture: pragmatic, kind, direct, and oriented around outcomes rather than tools.
Contribute to hiring and onboarding by participating in interviews, improving our interview loops, and helping new teammates ramp quickly.

Requirements

10+ years of professional experience building and operating production web applications, including substantial time at a Senior/Lead level.
Deep hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails and React (or very similar frameworks), including APIs, background jobs, data modeling, and performance tuning.
Strong system design and architecture skills: modularization, data modeling, scaling strategies, and trade-off analysis.
Proven track record leading complex, cross-functional projects—from ambiguous requirements to successful production rollout.
Experience owning production systems: incident response, root-cause analysis, and designing durable fixes.
Comfortable working in fast-paced, product-driven environments with iterative delivery and tight feedback loops.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to explain technical concepts clearly to non-engineers and drive alignment.

Preferred

Experience in telehealth, healthcare, or other regulated domains, with awareness of secure data handling and privacy requirements.
Experience with Next.js and modern front-end performance techniques (SSR, ISR, code-splitting, image optimization).
Familiarity with modern testing approaches and tools.
Prior experience in a Staff or Principal Engineer role, or as a Lead Engineer responsible for technical direction and mentoring.
Hands-on use of AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Open AI, modern LLMs) to improve velocity, quality, and reliability—not just autocomplete.
Experience improving developer experience (DX): build tooling, CI/CD pipelines, repo structure, and documentation.

Skills

Ruby on Rails
Sidekiq
PostgreSQL
React
Next.js
GitHub
CI/CD
AWS
Vercel
Cursor
Claude Code
OpenAI
LLMs

Responsibilities

Requirements

Preferred

Skills

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