SonderMind · 2 weeks ago
Staff Ruby on Rails Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$160K/yr - $180K/yr
10+ years expSonderMind is a company dedicated to providing personalized mental health care. They are seeking a Staff Ruby on Rails Engineer to design and ship APIs and integration points for their online mental health services, ensuring efficient partner interactions and patient care delivery.
Health CareInsuranceMental HealthmHealthTelehealthTherapeuticsWellness
Responsibilities
Own key platform APIs end to end, from RFC to rollout and monitoring
Shape the partner developer experience (docs, SDKs, sample apps, sandbox flows)
Build clean contracts and stable interfaces for identity, eligibility, scheduling, claims, and reporting
Work with standards like OAuth2/OpenID Connect and FHIR/HL7 when they help, and keep things simple when they don’t
Collaborate with product, security, data, and customer teams to turn real integration pain points into shipped solutions
Measure impact and iterate quickly
Lead the design, development, and optimization of services built on Ruby on Rails
Architect and implement event-based systems leveraging RabbitMQ and other messaging technologies
Design and optimize schemas and queries for relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL)
Drive the development of FHIR-compliant APIs for healthcare interoperability
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across teams
Partner with product, compliance, and business stakeholders to translate healthcare workflows into reliable software solutions
Advocate for engineering best practices including code quality, testing, CI/CD, and system observability
Collaborate in cross-functional discussions on scalability, security, and patient data protection
Qualification
Required
10+ years of professional software engineering experience
5+ years with Ruby on Rails in large-scale production environments
Proven experience with event-driven architectures and RabbitMQ (or similar message brokers)
Strong background in relational database design and performance optimization
Familiarity with healthcare systems, interoperability standards, and compliance considerations (e.g., HIPAA)
Ability to provide architectural guidance, mentor engineers, and drive technical initiatives
Preferred
Experience with Python in production systems
Hands-on experience developing FHIR-based APIs
Background in building highly available, distributed systems in healthcare or other regulated industries
A mix of startup and enterprise healthcare experience
Experience scaling systems in cloud-native environments (AWS)
Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders
Benefits
A generous PTO policy, with a minimum of three weeks off per year
A holiday schedule that follows standard U.S. holidays
Free therapy coverage benefits to ensure employees have access to the care they need (must be enrolled in a qualifying medical plan to participate)
Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage, with plans to meet every need — including HSA (with $1,100 company contribution) and FSA options
Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, life & AD&D, plus coverage of the salary difference for up to seven weeks of short-term disability leave (after the required waiting period)
Eight weeks of paid Parental Leave; if the parent also qualifies for STD, this benefit is in addition, allowing for 8–16 weeks of paid leave
401(k) retirement plan with 100% match on up to 4% of base salary, immediately vested
Join teammates from across the country at our annual company gathering
Company shutdown between Christmas and New Year’s
Supplemental life insurance, pet insurance, commuter benefits, and more!
Company
SonderMind
SonderMind is a mental healthcare provider that offers treatment for mental health through therapy and psychiatry.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$183.03MKey Investors
General CatalystDioko VenturesKickstart
2021-07-28Series C· $150M
2020-04-06Series B· $27M
2019-04-23Series A· $3M
Leadership Team
Mark Frank
CEO and Co-Founder
Shouvick Mukherjee
Chief Technology Officer
Recent News
2025-11-05
Behavioral Health Business
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