Staff Software Engineer, Rula
Referrals & Conversions
$192-240k
+ equity
Matching people with therapists
Be an early applicant
Matching people with therapists
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$192-240k
+ equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make mental healthcare work for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of related professional experience
- Deep understanding of modern application design architecture, good API design patterns, security, performance, and scaling
- Experience designing and evolving system architectures with the ability to weigh tradeoffs and choose a suitable approach for the problem at hand
- Proven ability to lead complex technical projects across teams, shaping scope, estimates, and execution while aligning technical decisions with business goals
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to build positive relationships with partners and stakeholders
- Fluent with AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, etc.) and able to articulate both where they accelerate delivery and where they introduce risk or require human judgment
Desirable
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related field, or comparable work experience
- Familiarity with modern infrastructure and tooling
- Experience with distributed systems development, especially using an event-based paradigm
- Experience building systems to interface or directly integrate with 3rd parties
- Comfortable troubleshooting complex production issues and advocating for reliability improvements
- Prior experience in early-stage and/or high-growth startup environments and comfortable navigating ambiguity while influencing evolving roadmaps
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Partnerships Referrals & Conversions engineering team
- This team is focused on managing patient referrals including building scalable referral pathways for partners and referral-centric patient experiences
- You will build and evolve systems behind referral management, partner data management, and patient booking experiences
- As a Staff Engineer, you’ll play a central role in shaping this direction by bringing order to ambiguity, designing durable systems, and delivering software that directly impacts how partners refer patients to Rula and how those patients experience care
- As a technical leader, you’ll partner with your Engineering Manager, working closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to align technical decisions enabling Rula to deliver mental health care to our partners’ members
- Beyond your own contributions, you’ll amplify the effectiveness of the team by mentoring engineers, unblocking peers, and raising the technical bar across Rula
- We’re looking for product-minded engineers who see problems, move quickly, and help the team build the right solution quickly
- We expect engineers on this team to leverage AI-assisted development tools, including Claude Code, as a natural part of their workflow, not as a novelty
- You’re fluent with these tools and are keeping up with the developing landscape, forming opinions on where they add value and how to get the best out of them to improve velocity and decrease time-to-value
Our take
More than half of adults in the US will be diagnosed with a mental illness during their lifetime, and yet inaccessibility of treatment remains a huge problem. That’s what Rula aims to solve, with its platform that matches users to therapists that are covered by their insurance.
The company, formerly known as Path, is partnered with a number of major health insurers, including United Healthcare and Anthem, making it an accessible service for millions of Americans. It allows users to browse therapists almost instantly, with just a short questionnaire to fill in before their matches are shown.
Though the market for tech-enabled mental health provision is rather overstuffed, with giants like BetterHelp as well as newer competitors, Rula's partnerships with insurers set it apart. The business has been steadily growing, and significantly bolstered its executive team in 2023. It also rebranded to emphasise its vision to improve not only access to mental health care, but also clinical outcomes.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
73% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2022
$88m
SERIES B
Apr 2021
$17.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $110.9m
Company benefits
- The ability to work remotely from any location in the US
- Pay and benefits that aren’t geo-locked
- Two company-wide shut-down weeks a year for self-care
- Access to 401(k) personal retirement plan
- Paid parental leave to support you and your family
- Medical, dental, and vision employer insurance plans
- Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) through our insurance
- The equipment you need for your home office
Company HQ
Los Angeles, CA
Leadership
Josh Bruno
(CEO & Co-Founder)Formerly the founder and CEO of Hometeam, they have also worked as a Software Engineer at both Yahoo! and Silicon Laboratories, a Venture Investor at Bain Capital Ventures, and an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company.
Gabe Diop
(Co-Founder)Previously a Sales Solution Specialist at Linkedin, before becoming Head of Sales at FEAT Socks. They have also worked in Business Development at Catalant Technologies and in Partnerships at Spruce Health.
Share this job
View 25 more jobs at Rula