Staff Software Engineer

Rugiet Health; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative telemedicine company in Austin seeks a Staff Software Engineer to drive architecture and reliability across its tech stack. This role includes leading complex projects, mentoring engineers, and evolving AI usage for improved developer experience. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of experience with Ruby on Rails and React, coupled with strong system design and communication skills. If you’re looking to contribute significantly in a fast-paced healthcare environment, we want to hear from you.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in professional web applications, including time at a Senior/Lead level.
• Hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails and React.
• Strong system design skills: modularization and data modeling.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and technical design for initiatives across Rails + React.
• Partner closely with product and clinical teams for scalable solutions.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews and pairing.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

React

System Design

Incident Response

Team Mentorship

Tools

GitHub

CI/CD

AWS

Job description

About Rugiet

Rugiet is a high-growth, innovative telemedicine company pioneering patented solutions in the men's health space. We are dedicated to delivering accessible, effective, and patient-centric healthcare. As we continue to expand our suite of products and market presence, we rely on data-driven strategy and compelling messaging to connect patients with our life-changing solutions.

Role Overview

Rugiet is looking for a Staff Software Engineer who combines deep technical expertise with strong product instincts and a bias for ownership. You’ll be a senior individual contributor driving architecture, reliability, and developer experience across our stack.

You will partner with engineering, product, design, and operations to set technical direction, lead complex projects end-to-end, and raise the bar for code quality, observability, and automation. You’ll also play a key role in evolving how we use AI and lightweight automation to reduce toil and ship high-quality features faster.

Key Outcomes (first 12–18 months)

• Establish and socialize a clear technical direction for our core Rails + React systems (architecture, data, and reliability).
• Reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) and incident recurrence through improved observability and root‑cause fixes.
• Lead 2–3 high‑impact, cross‑functional projects from design through launch and iteration.
• Materially improve developer experience (DX) via tooling, CI/CD, and AI‑assisted workflows—measurably reducing cycle time and manual toil.
• Mentor engineers across the team; help level up design reviews, code quality, and system thinking.

What You’ll Do

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Own architecture and technical design for complex initiatives across the Rails + React stack, balancing pragmatism with long‑term maintainability.
• Break down ambiguous product and platform problems into clear technical plans, milestones, and trade‑offs.
• Evolve our system boundaries (services, modules, contracts) as the product and team scale.
• Define standards for code quality, testing, observability, and performance—and ensure they are applied consistently across teams.
• Make thoughtful build‑vs‑buy decisions and introduce new technologies where they create real leverage.

Product & Delivery

• Partner closely with Product, Design, Operations, and Clinical teams to turn business goals into resilient, scalable solutions.
• Lead end‑to‑end delivery for critical projects: discovery, design reviews, implementation, rollout, and post‑launch iteration.
• Balance short‑term feature delivery with longer‑term platform investments (e.g., refactors, migrations, performance and reliability work).
• Communicate clearly with technical and non‑technical stakeholders, including risks, trade‑offs, and timelines.

Team Leadership & Mentorship

• Mentor senior and mid‑level engineers through design reviews, pairing, and thoughtful feedback.
• Model excellent engineering practices: clear RFCs, high‑quality PRs, testable designs, and crisp incident write‑ups.
• Help shape our engineering culture: pragmatic, kind, direct, and oriented around outcomes rather than tools.
• Contribute to hiring and onboarding by participating in interviews, improving our interview loops, and helping new teammates ramp quickly.

Our Stack

• Backend: Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq/background jobs, PostgreSQL.
• Frontend: React (and, where appropriate, Next.js) with modern component patterns and testing.
• Tooling & Platform: GitHub, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Vercel), monitoring/observability tools.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience building and operating production web applications, including substantial time at a Senior/Lead level.
• Deep hands‑on experience with Ruby on Rails and React (or very similar frameworks), including APIs, background jobs, data modeling, and performance tuning.
• Strong system design and architecture skills: modularization, data modeling, scaling strategies, and trade‑off analysis.
• Proven track record leading complex, cross‑functional projects—from ambiguous requirements to successful production rollout.
• Experience owning production systems: incident response, root‑cause analysis, and designing durable fixes.
• Comfortable working in fast‑paced, product‑driven environments with iterative delivery and tight feedback loops.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to explain technical concepts clearly to non‑engineers and drive alignment.

Nice to Have

• Experience in telehealth, healthcare, or other regulated domains, with awareness of secure data handling and privacy requirements.
• Experience with Next.js and modern front‑end performance techniques (SSR, ISR, code‑splitting, image optimization).
• Familiarity with modern testing approaches and tools.
• Prior experience in a Staff or Principal Engineer role, or as a Lead Engineer responsible for technical direction and mentoring.
• Hands‑on use of AI‑assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Open AI, modern LLMs) to improve velocity, quality, and reliability—not just autocomplete.
• Experience improving developer experience (DX): build tooling, CI/CD pipelines, repo structure, and documentation.

How You Work

• Problem‑first: you clarify the real problem, constraints, and trade‑offs before committing to a solution.
• Systems thinker: you consider downstream effects, failure modes, and long‑term maintainability.
• Pragmatic: you favor simple, observable solutions and iterate rather than over‑design.
• Ownership mindset: you care about outcomes, not just tickets; you follow through after launch and leave systems better than you found them.
• Multiplier: you raise the bar for those around you through mentorship, thoughtful feedback, and good technical defaults.
• Bias to automate: you turn recurring issues and manual workflows into scripts, tools, and platform capabilities.

To Apply

• If you are excited by the opportunity to make a significant impact on a growing healthcare company by organizing and optimizing our creative output, please submit your resume and a cover letter detailing your relevant experience and why you are a great fit for this role.