Senior Software Engineer I, Care Innovation, Agentic Care
About The Position
Spring Health is a global mental health company dedicated to eliminating barriers to mental health support. Their AI-native platform offers personalized mental health solutions, including self-guided tools, coaching, therapy, and medication management. The company aims to expand the reach, quality, and humanity of care through technology. The Care Innovation team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for a high-visibility, high-impact role. This position offers autonomy in driving technical decisions and influencing product development, with close collaboration with R&D leadership on high-priority projects. The role is hybrid, based in Seattle, requiring 2-3 days per week in the office at 255 King St. Candidates must be in the Seattle metro area or willing to relocate within 90 days. Occasional travel for team on-sites is expected.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software development experience with a focus on backend development.
- Strong proficiency in Ruby on Rails, Python, or an equivalent object-oriented backend language.
- Experience leading technical designs and multi-person engineering projects end-to-end.
- Strong SQL skills and familiarity with relational databases like PostgreSQL.
- Actively uses AI coding tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot) and iterates on prompts to get high-quality outputs—while critically reviewing AI-generated code for correctness, security, and standards compliance.
- Embraces writing well-designed tests that accompany all code.
- Proven ability to mentor and develop engineers at earlier career stages.
- Comfortable working on an agile team; curious about learning new things, including evolving AI capabilities.
Nice To Haves
- Experience integrating AI/ML features or LLM-powered services in production.
- Background in healthcare or regulated environments.
Responsibilities
- Write, review, and optimize production-ready code daily, making key technical decisions and maintaining a high standard for code quality.
- Lead technical design reviews and author technical designs, creating elegant solutions for complex problems.
- Utilize AI tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot, Cursor) to support technical design, explore tradeoffs, accelerate delivery, and augment code reviews, critically evaluating all AI-generated output for quality and security.
- Identify repeatable tasks for AI acceleration and guide junior engineers on effective and responsible AI usage.
- Design and build scalable backend services in Ruby on Rails, managing provider-facing APIs for the profile, onboarding, and offboarding lifecycle.
- Lead multi-person, multi-sprint projects, coordinating execution, managing dependencies and tradeoffs, and building stakeholder alignment.
- Mentor and develop engineers at earlier career stages through code reviews, pairing, and direct coaching.
- Ensure operational excellence through best practices in logging, alerting, and monitoring; investigate incidents and provide root cause analyses, including participation in an on-call rotation.
Benefits
- Health, Dental, Vision benefits start on your first day.
- Access to One Medical accounts for you and your dependents.
- HSA and FSA plans available, with Spring contributing up to $1K for HSAs.
- Employer-sponsored 401(k) match of up to 2%.
- Yearly allotment of no-cost visits to the Spring Health network of therapists, coaches, and medication management providers for you and your dependents.
- Competitive paid time off policies including vacation, sick leave, and company holidays.
- Parental leave: 18 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents at 6 months tenure.
- Access to Noom, a weight management program.
- Access to fertility care support through Carrot, in addition to $4,000 reimbursement for related fertility expenses.
- Access to Wellhub for fitness, mindfulness, nutrition, and sleep.
- Access to BrightHorizons for sponsored child care, back-up care, and elder care.
- Up to $1,000 Professional Development Reimbursement annually.
- Up to $200 per year donation matching.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
