Staff Software Engineer (Remote)

Rula is a mental healthcare company dedicated to providing evidence-based and compassionate care. The Staff Software Engineer will join the Patient Onboarding team to build and improve systems supporting registration, insurance verification, and access to care while providing technical leadership across product areas and engineering practices.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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

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
• 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