Staff Engineer - AI-Enabled Revenue Cycle Systems

SonderMind; Durham (NC); Remote; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO minimum 3 weeks/year

Holiday schedule (US)

Free therapy coverage

Medical, Dental, Vision + HSA/FSA

Disability and life Insurance

8–16 weeks parental leave

401(k) with 100% match up to 4%

Company gathering

Holiday shutdown

Supplemental life/pet/comuter benefits

Job summary

SonderMind is hiring a Staff Engineer to own end-to-end features across backend services, agentic frameworks, AI Pipelines and front end. You’ll troubleshoot complex problems, design optimizations, and shape our microservices architecture while collaborating with product, design, and QA.

You’ll work with high-performance tools and services; experience with ML models is a plus but not required. A fast-paced, AI-driven environment awaits, with opportunities to mentor peers and lead critical

Qualifications

• 8+ years building web services or full-stack applications.
• Strong hands-on experience in Ruby/Rails, TypeScript/Node, Python or similar backends.
• Deep understanding of APIs, PostgreSQL, and some performance tuning.
• Proven ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term technical investments and continuous improvement of quality.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment where requirements evolve over time.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
• Some knowledge of AI/ML is desired but not a requirement
• Experience with LLMs or AI-driven toolchain (Langchain/Langgraph) is highly desirable

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable Ruby/Rails, TypeScript/Node, and Python services and RESTful or gRPC APIs that integrate with agentic GenAI systems
• Optimize MongoDB and PostgreSQL queries and service performance
• Collaborate with cross-functional squads to define requirements and deliver features
• Work on AI Agents, MCP servers and various other AI enabled tools and frameworks and so must be comfortable working with ambiguity and rapidly evolving technologies
• Identify and drive process, architecture, and toolchain improvements
• Mentor junior engineers (code reviews, pair-programming etc)
• Serve as a technical lead for complex projects, balancing scope, risk, and not compromising deliverable quality.

Skills

Ruby/Rails

TypeScript/Node

Python

APIs

PostgreSQL

Performance-tuning

Mentoring

Leadership

Tools

MongoDB

REST APIs

gRPC

Job description

SonderMind is hiring a Staff Engineer to own end-to-end features across backend services, agentic frameworks, AI Pipelines and front end. You’ll troubleshoot complex problems, design optimizations, and shape our microservices architecture while collaborating with product, design, and QA.

You’ll work with high-performance tools and services; experience with ML models is a plus but not required. A fast-paced, AI-driven environment awaits, with opportunities to mentor peers and lead critical