Staff Software Engineer, Growth
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Full-Stack Staff Software Engineer, Growth at Brightside Health improving outcomes in mental healthcare through innovative technology and collaboration.
Responsibilities:
- Identifying the highest-leverage opportunities across care discovery, mental health assessment, and provider booking experiences.
- Connecting technical investments to measurable patient, operational, and business outcomes.
- Using data to uncover friction points, understand system performance, and validate the impact of solutions.
- Building platforms, tooling, and automation that enable cross-functional teams to move faster and make better decisions.
- Simplifying complex intake and care-matching workflows while accounting for the realities of healthcare, insurance, and compliance.
- Raising the technical bar by helping other engineers make sound architectural and implementation decisions.
- Creating clarity and alignment in ambiguous problem spaces.
- Delivering solutions that are reliable, observable, scalable, and maintainable.
- Identifying opportunities to leverage AI, agents, and automation to reduce operational overhead, improve decision-making, and streamline complex workflows.
- Championing a culture of experimentation by using A/B testing and data-driven learning to guide product and engineering decisions.
Requirements:
- Significant experience shipping production software, typically gained over 10+ years or through equivalent high-impact experience.
- Strong fluency with Ruby on Rails and modern TypeScript/React.
- Solid relational database experience, including schema design, query performance, data modeling, and safe migrations.
- Experience integrating with external APIs in production, including retries, idempotency, rate limits, partial failures, observability, and vendor quirks.
- A track record of operating autonomously on ambiguous, cross-functional problems.
- Strong product judgment: you can reason about user needs, operational workflows, edge cases, and tradeoffs.
- Strong data instincts: you can use metrics, logs, database queries, dashboards, and product analytics to understand what is happening and whether a change helped.
- Demonstrated ability to raise the bar of a team through code review, design review, mentorship, technical writing, or pattern-setting.
- Excellent written communication, including design docs, RFCs, incident write-ups, rollout plans, and clear decision records.
- Comfort working in regulated or high-trust systems where correctness, privacy, and auditability matter.
- Comfort using AI-native development practices, including AI coding tools, agents, and automation to accelerate high-quality software delivery.
Benefits:
- A competitive salary: 175k to 225k
- Stock options so you have equity
- Fully paid for comprehensive health care (medical, dental, vision)
- Pet Insurance
- Life Insurance & Short / Long Term Disability
- 401k Plan
- Unlimited PTO and sick leave
- Parental Leave
- Work remotely and whatever schedule works best for you



















