Staff Software Engineer (Remote)

Rula•Los Angeles, CA

3d•Remote

About The Position

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join Rula’s Patient Onboarding team, which owns the journey from a person’s first interaction with Rula through registration, insurance verification, and successfully getting started with care. You’ll be a hands-on technical leader, writing code while leading complex initiatives across product areas, improving the foundations our team builds on, and helping other engineers move faster through strong technical direction and modern AI-enabled development practices. Our collaborative team moves quickly, works closely with Product, Design, and Analytics, and gives engineers meaningful ownership over both what we build and how we build it. This role offers the opportunity to improve a critical part of Rula’s patient experience while shaping the systems and engineering practices that help us connect more people to care.

Requirements

8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience operating at Staff-level scope or leading complex initiatives across multiple teams or systems.
Strong full-stack engineering experience building and maintaining production web applications, with depth in modern frontend frameworks, backend APIs, data modeling, and distributed systems.
Demonstrated experience leading technically complex projects from problem definition through design, implementation, launch, and production support.
Experience working on high-impact user journeys such as onboarding, checkout, registration, eligibility, payments, marketplaces, or other conversion-critical workflows.
Demonstrated experience influencing technical direction across functions or teams, including communicating tradeoffs and driving alignment with Product, Design, Data, or other engineering teams.
Hands-on experience using AI-assisted software development tools (such as Claude Code) as part of regular engineering workflows.

Nice To Haves

Experience building AI-powered engineering workflows, tooling, or automation that was adopted by others and measurably improved development speed or quality.
Experience in healthcare, insurance, fintech, or another regulated domain where reliability, privacy, and complex business rules materially influence system design.
Experience using product, operational, or funnel data to identify technical opportunities and evaluate whether engineering investments produced the intended outcome.
Demonstrated ability to improve engineering leverage across a small team through tooling, documentation, shared architecture, or reducing concentrated system knowledge

Responsibilities

Leading complex initiatives across product areas
Improving the foundations our team builds on
Helping other engineers move faster through strong technical direction and modern AI-enabled development practices
Improving a critical part of Rula’s patient experience
Shaping the systems and engineering practices that help us connect more people to care

Benefits

100% remote work environment
Working hours to support a healthy work-life balance
Attractive pay and benefits
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) : Supporting your mental and physical health
Quarterly department stipend : Fun team-building activities or in-person gatherings
Community and employee resource groups : Participate in groups that celebrate employee identity and lived experiences, fostering a sense of community and belonging for all
Home office stipend: New hire home office stipend & $50 monthly stipend to help cover internet or cell phone expenses
Wellness at Rula program: Year-round wellness initiatives and a $50/month wellness stipend