Senior Software Engineer I, Care Innovation, Agentic Care

Spring Health•Seattle, WA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Our mission: eliminating every barrier to mental health. Spring Health is a global mental health company on a mission to eliminate every barrier to mental health. We're building a world where getting support is simple, personal, and built around the person, so care can continue through every job, move, health plan, and life stage. Our AI-native platform helps us deliver personalized support across self-guided tools, coaching, therapy, medication management, and specialty care. With outcomes independently validated by JAMA Network Open and the Validation Institute, Spring Health reaches more than 170 million people worldwide through leading employers, health plans, and partners. As an AI-native company, we believe technology should expand the reach, quality, and humanity of care. Every Spring Health team member is expected to use AI tools thoughtfully, apply human judgment to AI outputs, and keep building AI fluency in ways that support their role and our mission. There are many positions open within the Care Innovation team, so depending on your skills and team needs, we'll route you to the appropriate team! You will take on a high-visibility, high-impact role as a Senior Software Engineer. In this key technical position within a high impact team, you’ll have the autonomy to drive technical decisions and influence the direction of product development. You'll collaborate closely with R&D leadership to design and execute high-priority projects that support our company’s mission of transforming mental healthcare. Please note that this is a hybrid role based in Seattle, with an expectation to be in the office 2–3 days per week at our 255 King St location. Candidates must be based in the Seattle metro area or able to relocate independently within 90 days of their start date. Occasional travel will be required for team on-sites.

Requirements

5+ years of professional software development experience with a focus on backend development.
Strong proficiency in Ruby on Rails, Python, or 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 while making key technical decisions and holding a high bar for code quality.
Lead technical design reviews and produce technical designs as a primary author—delivering elegant solutions to complex problems.
Use AI tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot, Cursor etc) to support technical design, explore tradeoffs, accelerate delivery, and augment code reviews—while critically evaluating all AI-generated output to ensure it meets team quality and security standards.
Identify repeatable tasks that can be accelerated with AI; guide junior engineers on effective and responsible AI usage.
Design and build scalable backend services in Ruby on Rails, owning provider-facing APIs across the profile, onboarding, and offboarding lifecycle.
Lead multi-person, multi-sprint projects: coordinate execution, manage dependencies and tradeoffs, and build alignment across stakeholders.
Mentor and actively develop engineers at earlier career stages through code reviews, pairing, and direct coaching.
Own operational excellence: exemplify best practices in logging, alerting, and monitoring; methodically investigate incidents and provide root cause analyses, including participating in an on-call rotation.

Benefits

Health, Dental, Vision benefits start on your first day at Spring.
Access to One Medical accounts for you and your dependents.
HSA and FSA plans are also available, with Spring contributing up to $1K for HSAs, depending on your plan type.
Employer sponsored 401(k) match of up to 2% for retirement planning.
A 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 of 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, which connects employees to the best options for fitness, mindfulness, nutrition, and sleep in one subscription.
Access to BrightHorizons, which provides sponsored child care, back-up care, and elder care.
Up to $1,000 Professional Development Reimbursement a year.
$200 per year donation matching to support your favorite causes.