Staff Software Engineer - Referrals & Conversions (Remote)

Rula is dedicated to improving access to evidence-based, compassionate mental health care. The Staff Software Engineer will build and evolve systems for patient referrals, partner data management, and patient booking experiences while providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and collaborating across teams to deliver scalable solutions.

Responsibilities:

• You will build and evolve systems behind referral management, partner data management, and patient booking experiences
• As a technical leader, you’ll partner with your Engineering Manager, working closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to align technical decisions enabling Rula to deliver mental health care to our partners’ members
• 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 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 related professional experience
• Deep understanding of modern application design architecture, good API design patterns, security, performance, and scaling
• Experience designing and evolving system architectures with the ability to weigh tradeoffs and choose a suitable approach for the problem at hand
• Proven ability to lead complex technical projects across teams, shaping scope, estimates, and execution while aligning technical decisions with business goals
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build positive relationships with partners and stakeholders
• Fluent with AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, etc.) and able to articulate both where they accelerate delivery and where they introduce risk or require human judgment
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related field, or comparable work experience
• Familiarity with modern infrastructure and tooling
• Experience with distributed systems development, especially using an event-based paradigm
• Experience building systems to interface or directly integrate with 3rd parties
• Comfortable troubleshooting complex production issues and advocating for reliability improvements
• Prior experience in early-stage and/or high-growth startup environments and comfortable navigating ambiguity while influencing evolving roadmaps