Staff Ruby on Rails Engineer, SonderMind
$160-180k
In-person and online therapy platform
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In-person and online therapy platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-180k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To improve individuals' mental and behavioral health to create a happier and healthier world.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 5+ years with Ruby on Rails in large-scale production environments
- Proven experience with event-driven architectures and RabbitMQ (or similar message brokers)
- Strong background in relational database design and performance optimization
- Hands-on experience developing FHIR-based APIs
- Familiarity with healthcare systems, interoperability standards, and compliance considerations (e.g., HIPAA)
- Ability to provide architectural guidance, mentor engineers, and drive technical initiatives
Desirable
- Experience with Python in production systems
- Background in building highly available, distributed systems in healthcare or other regulated industries
- A mix of startup and enterprise healthcare experience
- Experience scaling systems in cloud-native environments (AWS)
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders
What the job involves
- We’re turning our online mental health services into a provider platform that any health plan, payer, employer, or med-tech app can plug into. You’ll design and ship the APIs, webhooks, and integration points that make that possible. Your work will remove friction for partners, protect patient data, and get people care faster
- Own key platform APIs end to end, from RFC to rollout and monitoring
- Shape the partner developer experience (docs, SDKs, sample apps, sandbox flows)
- Build clean contracts and stable interfaces for identity, eligibility, scheduling, claims, and reporting
- Work with standards like OAuth2/OpenID Connect and FHIR/HL7 when they help, and keep things simple when they don’t
- Collaborate with product, security, data, and customer teams to turn real integration pain points into shipped solutions
- Measure impact and iterate quickly
- Lead the design, development, and optimization of services built on Ruby on Rails
- Architect and implement event-based systems leveraging RabbitMQ and other messaging technologies
- Design and optimize schemas and queries for relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL)
- Drive the development of FHIR-compliant APIs for healthcare interoperability
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across teams
- Partner with product, compliance, and business stakeholders to translate healthcare workflows into reliable software solutions
- Advocate for engineering best practices including code quality, testing, CI/CD, and system observability
- Collaborate in cross-functional discussions on scalability, security, and patient data protection
- 30 days: understand the systems, earn trust, adapt to the workflow:
- Learn how the stack fits together, ship a few quick wins, and line up the first bigger initiative
- Find your groove on the refiners meetings, turning business requirements into sharp focused JIRA tickets
- Develop a technical design document for a larger feature and get it rolling
- 60 days: lead an initiative and de-risk it:
- Take ownership of a cross-team project from design to first value in prod and raise the bar through reviews, patterns, and mentoring
- Find your cruising speed and hit your sprint velocity
- Root out a significant piece of technical debt and resolve it
- 90 days:
- Establish a leadership presence on the team
- Propose and roll out changes that affect higher quality releases and reduce bug rates
- Understand the strengths and shortcomings of the system and propose a roadmap to improve system reliability and observability
- Acquire deep expertise on our systems, communicate with external business partners and become the leading expert on our Enterprise APIs
Application process
- This position will be an ongoing recruitment process and will be open until filled
Our take
Demand for mental health services in the U.S. is soaring, yet therapeutic services are generally expensive, uniform, and hard to access for the majority of people. This is mainly due to the fact that most mental health practitioners don't accept insurance or work within a healthcare infrastructure.
SonderMind tackles the shortage of accessible mental health services by providing a digital network that matches the specific needs of patients with mental health specialists. What's more, the patient’s insurance coverage network is considered when determining a match, allowing users to find personalized therapeutic services that fit within their budget.
In addition to its therapy recommendation service, Sondermind also provides tools for therapy booking, organization, and billing. Ultimately, the startup has taken an interesting stance within the therapy landscape by focusing on providing personalized and easy-to-use booking services that are flexible within different budgets and insurance plans.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2021
$150m
SERIES C
Apr 2020
$27m
SERIES B
Total funding: $183.2m
Company benefits
- We work to support our employees wherever they are in life
- We offer health, vision, dental, disability, and mental health coverage
- And beyond that, you're required to take at least three weeks of PTO each year!
Company HQ
Cherry Creek, Denver, CO
Leadership
Mark Frank
(CEO & Co-Founder)Co-founded SafeImageMD in 2012. Former Chairman on the Board of Directors for AfterOurs Urgent Care prior to co-founding SonderMind.
Shouvick Mukherjee
(CTO & Co-Founder)They have extensive experience in engineering and have held many VP roles in various companies, including Yahoo and Walmart eCommerce.
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