Staff API Engineer, Healthie
Ruby on Rails
$197-227k
Plus equity & company bonus
More information about location
Infrastructure for virtual-first healthcare organizations
Open for applications
Infrastructure for virtual-first healthcare organizations
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$197-227k
Plus equity & company bonus
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower the providers and builders of the care ecosystem with the tools they need to deliver a complete virtual experience for the end-consumers.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of backend engineering experience, with deep Ruby on Rails expertise
- Proven experience designing and scaling large, complex backend systems—monolithic or hybrid
- Strong foundation in database design and scaling: schema evolution, query optimization, sharding, migrations
- Experience building shared frameworks, libraries, or SDKs that accelerate developer velocity
- Excited to grow expertise in GraphQL—or already bringing exposure and enthusiasm for APIs at scale
- Comfortable navigating legacy code and incrementally modernizing it to meet today’s performance and reliability needs
- A mentor and technical leader who elevates others and sets high engineering standards
- You’re passionate about developer experience, reliability, and performance—and about improving healthcare through technology
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset — you enjoy helping other teams succeed
- You embody Healthie’s core values of Respect, Reliability, and Resilience, and integrate them into your engineering work, decision-making, and team collaboration
What the job involves
- We’re seeking a Staff Software Engineer, API to help define and scale the backbone of Healthie’s platform. In this role, you’ll leverage deep Ruby on Rails expertise to architect, optimize, and evolve the core systems that power our API-first ecosystem
- Our API already processes over 1 billion calls each month—enabling thousands of developers to build custom integrations, analytics, and patient experiences. You’ll ensure our Rails-powered systems scale with ease, while also guiding the evolution of our GraphQL API
- Think of this as a chance to bring your Rails mastery to bear on one of healthcare’s most exciting technical challenges—while also growing into an API leader who sets the standard for performance, reliability, and developer experience
- This is a Staff-level role: you’ll mentor engineers, influence architecture across teams, and set the technical vision for how Healthie’s API grows alongside our rapidly expanding developer community
- Architect and evolve Rails-based systems that underpin our API platform—ensuring scalability, maintainability, and reliability
- Guide the next phase of our GraphQL API, contributing Rails expertise while deepening your impact on API design and ergonomics
- Drive backend performance initiatives—from query optimization to scaling strategies—so our systems handle billions of calls seamlessly
- Build and refine internal frameworks and developer tools that enable teams to ship faster and more consistently
- Partner with product and engineering leadership to shape the API roadmap, aligning technical vision with developer and customer needs
- Mentor engineers, conduct technical reviews, and champion architectural best practices across teams
- Improve observability, monitoring, and debugging tools to keep our platform rock-solid as we scale
Application process
- Interview with Katie, Director of Talent (20 minutes)
- Interview with Sherilyn, Engineering Manager for Platform (30 minutes)
- Take Home Assessment - completed asynchronously
- Technical Interview with Andrew and Chris, Engineers for Platform (1 hour)
- Leadership Interviews:
- Interview with John, Director, Engineering (30 minutes)
- Behavioral Executive Interview with Cavan, CTO + cofounder- (20 minutes)
- Reference checks
Our take
The past few years have seen a substantial rise in provision and uptake of telemedicine services, with over one in five Americans now signed up. This successful reimagining of healthcare provision into something more accessible, affordable, and effective, has led to a surge of VC investment and rapid-growth success stories in the sector. Would-be startups, however, have to navigate the costly and complex process of building out core, HIPAA-compliant infrastructure.
So software and API company Healthie is filling the gap in this market. The business helps these companies build and deliver health and wellness services by providing a fully-brandable suite of telehealth, business management, and coaching tools. This means that businesses can launch and scale at a fraction of the cost, and in a fraction of the time.
It’s a broad-based set of solutions that’s won Healthie an impressive number of client organizations across over 20 different countries. This vigorous growth looks likely to continue too with its regular funding rounds. Telemedicine remains a popular healthcare tool, and as regulations on telehealth data privacy tighten, the growing number of startups in this space are likely to need more support than ever.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
52% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Oct 2024
$23m
SERIES B
Jul 2022
$16m
SERIES A
Total funding: $41.2m
Company benefits
- Stock options
- Medical, dental, vision, life and disability coverages
- FSA and HSA
- Flexible vacation
- 401(k) plan with company matching
- Parental leave program
- Learning & development stipends
- Nutritional coaching
- Fitness membership budget
- Co-working subscriptions
- A laptop plus equipment stipend
- Summer Fridays
Company HQ
Chelsea, New York, NY
Leadership
Erica Jain
(CEO & Co-Founder)Conducted research at the Center for Research on Prospective Health Care, moving into a nutrition program analyst role at the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and finally spent time as a healthcare consultant with BCG.
Cavan Klinsky
(CTO & Co-Founder)Founded search engine Gevva, and then worked freelance as a web designer.
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