Staff Software Engineer - Patient Matching (Remote)
About The Position
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join Rula’s Patient Matching team. This team is focused on driving meaningful impact across the patient funnel. Our goal isn’t to help patients find any provider, but to help them find the right provider: someone they trust, feel comfortable with, and want to continue care with. In practice, that means building and evolving the systems behind provider search, ranking, availability, eligibility, and 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 patients experience care. You’ll partner with your Engineering Manager, working closely with product managers, designers, clinicians, and other engineers to align technical decisions with patient and business outcomes. 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.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building and maintaining scalable, production-ready systems with measurable business impact.
- Strong expertise in API design, data modeling, and building systems that are reliable, maintainable, and performant.
- Advanced System Architecture Experience: Proven experience designing and evolving architectures with the ability to weigh tradeoffs and choose a suitable approach for the problem at hand.
- Technical Leadership: Proven ability to lead complex technical projects across teams, shaping scope, estimates, and execution while aligning technical decisions with business goals.
- Communication & Alignment: Excellent collaboration and communication skills with the ability to build consensus, surface risks early, and bring clarity to ambiguous problem spaces.
- Team Multiplier: Experience mentoring engineering teams, reviewing architectures, and raising the technical bar across organizations.
- AI-Assisted Development: Fluent with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code) and able to articulate both where they accelerate delivery and where they introduce risk or require human judgment.
Nice To Haves
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- Data-Intensive Systems: Experience with data-heavy ecosystems, including designing data pipelines, integrating data sources, or building systems that capture and analyze metrics.
- Modern Tooling: Familiarity with modern infrastructure and tooling.
- Startup Agility: Prior experience in early-stage and/or high-growth startup environments and comfortable navigating ambiguity while influencing evolving roadmaps
Responsibilities
- Play a central role in shaping the direction of the Patient Matching team by bringing order to ambiguity, designing durable systems, and delivering software that directly impacts how patients experience care.
- Partner with Engineering Manager, product managers, designers, clinicians, and other engineers to align technical decisions with patient and business outcomes.
- Amplify the effectiveness of the team by mentoring engineers, unblocking peers, and raising the technical bar across Rula.
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools, including Claude Code, as a natural part of their workflow.
- Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshooting complex production issues, and advocating for reliability improvements.
Benefits
- 100% remote work environment
- Attractive pay and benefits with full transparency of pay ranges
- Comprehensive health benefits: Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and FSA/HSA
- 401(k) plan access
- Generous time-off policies: Including 2 company-wide shutdown weeks each year for self-care
- Paid parental leave: Available for all parents, including birthing, non-birthing, adopting, and fostering
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- New hire home office stipend
- Quarterly department stipend
- Wellness events and lunch & learns
- Community and employee resource groups
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
