Senior Software Engineer I - Ruby on Rails with Sidekiq

Elsevier; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 87,000 - 144,000; Full time

Job summary

Elsevier's Wellsheet team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to own the platform API and internal tooling for a clinical data platform used across Epic, Cerner, and Athena integrations. You will build end-to-end platform subsystems and support real-time EHR synchronization and data normalization for 100+ hospitals.

Working in a senior, small-team setting, you will drive platform reliability, tooling, and observability while shipping significant production features within a rapidly evolving

Qualifications

• Current development skills with Ruby on Rails with Sidekiq on AWS (ECS, Aurora PostgreSQL), with a TypeScript frontend.
• Possess backend fundamentals: queues, retries, transactions, and the failure modes between them.
• Have real depth in SQL and relational data modeling, and the instinct to check the query plan.
• Possess End-to-end ownership of production systems, including the unglamorous parts.
• Have a debugging temperament: patient, methodical, happy in logs.
• AI-assisted development as a default: coding agents and spec-driven development are already part of how you work

Responsibilities

• Owning platform subsystems end to end: ingestion pipelines, sync reliability, normalization.
• Keeping the stack healthy: major framework and dependency upgrades, developer tooling, and the CI that keeps a small team fast.
• Taking loosely specified problems through diagnosis, design, and durable fixes.
• Keeping correctness and observability strong as the platform takes on new consumers.
• Pair with the engineer who built our sync and normalization systems and take ownership of one production pipeline, including its on-call.
• Your first shipped work will be a piece of the platform API or the internal tooling around it.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Sidekiq

AWS ECS

Aurora PostgreSQL

TypeScript frontend

backend fundamentals

SQL

debugging temperament

end-to-end ownership

AI-assisted development

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

TypeScript

Job description

Senior Software Engineer: Clinical Data Platform · Wellsheet at Elsevier

About Wellsheet at Elsevier: Wellsheet is a clinical decision support platform used by more than 20,000 providers across 100+ hospitals. We embed directly in the EHR (Epic, Cerner, Athena) and put AI-generated clinical context in front of clinicians at the bedside. In 2026 Wellsheet became part of Elsevier's Clinical Solutions group, and we're now building the next generation of our product: a new clinical AI experience shipping to our first hospital clients in early 2027, backed by an integration platform we've run in production for years. We're a small, all-senior engineering team. You'll own real surface area from your first weeks, work directly with the people who built the system, and ship software that clinicians use during patient care. No healthcare background is required. We train the clinical and interoperability domain; we hire for engineering judgment.

About the team

The Platform squad runs the machinery underneath everything clinicians see: real-time EHR sync across Epic, Cerner, and Athena, FHIR ingestion for 100+ hospitals, and vocabulary normalization across 125+ clinical terminologies. The squad is led directly by the technical leader behind Wellsheet's platform. Its next major build, which you'll help kick off, is the platform API that other Elsevier clinical products and internal teams will consume. The squad also owns the internal tooling for managing the platform and the health of the stack itself, from framework upgrades to developer tooling. Our stack today is Ruby on Rails with Sidekiq on AWS (ECS, Aurora PostgreSQL), with a TypeScript frontend where our tools need one. The work is mostly backend, but internal tools need real interfaces, and this squad builds its own. We don't require prior experience in any of the stack.

About the role

You will build the platform API alongside the squad lead: own endpoints, contracts, and the extraction work that turns internal seams into a real interface. You will also be building the internal tooling for managing the platform, frontends included: vocabulary mapping, data quality, hospital onboarding, and the operational views that let a small team run 100+hospitals.

Responsibilities

• Owning platform subsystems end to end: ingestion pipelines, sync reliability, normalization.


• Keeping the stack healthy: major framework and dependency upgrades, developer tooling, and the CI that keeps a small team fast.


• Taking of loosely specified problems (\"this vendor's FHIR implementation does something strange under load\") through diagnosis, design, and durable fixes.


• Keeping correctness and observability strong as the platform takes on new consumers.


• Pair with the engineer who built our sync and normalization systems and take ownership of one production pipeline, including its on-call.


• Your first shipped work will be a piece of the platform API or the internal tooling around it. By month three you'll own a platform surface that other teams depend on.

Requirements

• Current development skills with Ruby on Rails with Sidekiq on AWS (ECS, Aurora PostgreSQL), with a TypeScript frontend.


• Possess backend fundamentals: queues, retries, transactions, and the failure modes between them.


• Have real depth in SQL and relational data modeling, and the instinct to check the query plan.


• Possess End-to-end ownership of production systems, including the unglamorous parts.


• Have a debugging temperament: patient, methodical, happy in logs.


• AI-assisted development as a default: coding agents and spec-driven development are already part of how you work

Elsevier is a renowned global information analytics company that primarily focuses on providing scientific, technical, and medical (STM) research content, tools, and services. It is one of the largest publishers of academic journals and scholarly literature in the world. Elsevier operates in various domains, including science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and more. They publish a vast number of peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of disciplines. These journals act as platforms for researchers and academics to share their findings and contribute to the advancement of knowledge in their respective fields.

U.S. National Base Pay Range: $86,600 - $144,400. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. If performed in New York, the base pay range is $95,300 - $158,900. If performed in New York City, the base pay range is $103,900 - $173,300. If performed in Rochester, NY, the base pay range is $86,600 - $144,400. This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus. We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process.

We support continuous discovery and uphold the highest standards of content integrity, reliability, and reproducibility so the communities we serve can advance their field of science, healthcare or innovation with confidence. By combining high-quality content with powerful analytics, we transform complexity into clarity and deliver mission-critical insights that help professionals make better decisions when it matters most. We deliver insights that help research institutions, governments, and funders achieve their goals. We help researchers discover and share knowledge, collaborate, and accelerate innovation. We help librarians provide verified, quality information to universities. We help innovators turn knowledge into new products. We help health professionals improve patient care and educators train the next generation of doctors and nurses. Connecting quality content and innovative technologies, we make progress go further and happen faster. And by championing inclusion and sustainability, we ensure progress benefits all.

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