Staff Ruby on Rails Engineer

SonderMind is a company dedicated to providing personalized mental health care solutions. They are seeking a Staff Ruby on Rails Engineer to design and develop APIs and integration points for their provider platform, enhancing the efficiency of mental health services.

Responsibilities:

• Own key platform APIs end to end, from RFC to rollout and monitoring
• Shape the partner developer experience (docs, SDKs, sample apps, sandbox flows)
• Build clean contracts and stable interfaces for identity, eligibility, scheduling, claims, and reporting
• Work with standards like OAuth2/OpenID Connect and FHIR/HL7 when they help, and keep things simple when they don’t
• Collaborate with product, security, data, and customer teams to turn real integration pain points into shipped solutions
• Measure impact and iterate quickly
• Lead the design, development, and optimization of services built on Ruby on Rails
• Architect and implement event-based systems leveraging RabbitMQ and other messaging technologies
• Design and optimize schemas and queries for relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Drive the development of FHIR-compliant APIs for healthcare interoperability
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across teams
• Partner with product, compliance, and business stakeholders to translate healthcare workflows into reliable software solutions
• Advocate for engineering best practices including code quality, testing, CI/CD, and system observability
• Collaborate in cross-functional discussions on scalability, security, and patient data protection

Requirements:

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 5+ years with Ruby on Rails in large-scale production environments
• Proven experience with event-driven architectures and RabbitMQ (or similar message brokers)
• Strong background in relational database design and performance optimization
• Familiarity with healthcare systems, interoperability standards, and compliance considerations (e.g., HIPAA)
• Ability to provide architectural guidance, mentor engineers, and drive technical initiatives
• Experience with Python in production systems
• Hands-on experience developing FHIR-based APIs
• Background in building highly available, distributed systems in healthcare or other regulated industries
• A mix of startup and enterprise healthcare experience
• Experience scaling systems in cloud-native environments (AWS)
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders