Senior Staff Software Engineer (Remote)

Rula is a remote-first company dedicated to improving mental health care. They are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead technical modernization efforts and guide the Provider group through a critical growth phase.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the overarching Technical Individual Contributor Leader for the entire Provider organization
• Set the technical roadmap, establishing engineering standards, and driving high-impact initiatives that span all teams within the Provider domain

Requirements:

• 10+ years of related professional experience. Specifically, full-stack experience building modern database-backed (SQL/NoSQL) web applications and experience with microservice development
• Proven Technical Leadership: Extensive experience operating as a principal or lead architect for a major product domain or engineering group. With the knowledge and hands-on experience driving all phases of the development lifecycle: planning, specing, execution, and measuring success, post-launch maintenance
• Distributed Systems Expertise: Deep knowledge of building high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems, microservices architecture, and cloud infrastructure. Experience working on highly complex projects with a focus on achieving sustainable results
• Influence Without Authority: Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with a demonstrated ability to influence engineering direction and product strategy across multiple stakeholders. Working with cross-functional teams to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical groups
• Experience mentoring others, reviewing architectures, and establishing design patterns
• Domain Knowledge: Background in provider ecosystems, healthcare data standards (e.g., FHIR, HL7), or complex B2B integration networks is highly desirable but not mandatory
• Start-up experience
• Experience developing SaaS applications using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform
• Previous experience in products with high reliability/accuracy requirements (finance, mission-critical systems, etc.)
• Experience with “on-call”, ability to deep dive complex issues and drive them to resolution independently
• Experience with NodeJs, Typescript, Kafka