Job Description
Join Tech @ Ro to build the future of healthcare from the ground up!
At Ro we believe that when people achieve their health goals they can achieve their life goals. The highest-leverage way to move society forward is to give people their health and the current healthcare system isn’t built to do that. It was built to bill not to serve patients.
We’re building a new system. One where the patient is in control. One designed from scratch for the digital age.
At Ro technology isn’t just a function… It's core to how we deliver care. We’ve built a vertically integrated healthcare platform that connects telehealth diagnostics pharmacy and logistics into a seamless end-to-end experience for millions of patients.
…and we’re just getting started.
As part of Tech @ Ro you’ll work on systems that operate at scale with an opportunity to:
- Solve complex high-concurrency problems across a full-stack platform
- Build and ship quickly with tight feedback loops and real-world impact
- Own systems end-to-end from architecture to production performance
- Work alongside experienced operators technical leaders and clinicians
- Help define how modern healthcare should be delivered
We’re a performance-driven team with a strong sense of ownership and urgency. We move fast learn quickly and hold a high bar for what we build and do so with a big heart — because patients depend on it.
If you’re motivated by impact scale and the chance to help lead the patient revolution come build with us.
What You’ll Do:
- Design and build scalable reliable and resilient distributed services using Python with FastAPI or Django supporting critical clinical and operational workflows
- Partner closely with product teams to shape feature requirements define success metrics and translate business goals into scalable backend solutions.
- Operate as a domain owner — accountable not only for system reliability and performance but for how your systems drive measurable product and operational outcomes
- Own features end-to-end from technical discovery through launch and iteration using data and feedback to continuously improve outcomes
- Drive engineering excellence through best practices in testing monitoring observability and performance optimization
- Actively contribute to building the team’s architectural vision and technical roadmap
- Collaborate on code reviews and technical design documents to ensure the consistent application of best practices across relevant domains
- Participate in on-call rotations to ensure reliability of production systems
What You’ll Bring to the Team:
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience architecting designing and building scalable web applications and distributed systems
- Proficiency with Python relational databases and frameworks like FastAPI or Django with hands-on experience in metrics instrumentation and data-driven performance tuning leveraging Ro’s load testing infrastructure and tools like Datadog
- Experience partnering closely with Product to scope and deliver user-facing features that drive measurable business impact
- Proven track record of scaling complex data-intensive backend systems through rapid growth on a high-traffic engineering organization ensuring high performance and availability
- Strong intuition for product tradeoffs — balancing speed scalability and long-term architecture
- Deep understanding of distributed systems-data consistency communication patterns and service boundaries backed by hands-on experience building and maintaining data-intensive production systems
- Strong sense of ownership with the ability + desire to own technical roadmaps and refine ambiguous problems
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with other engineers and cross-functional partners to create the best possible products
Bonus Skills:
- Experience in telehealth or other highly regulated industries
- Experience with decoupling monolithic applications into distributed asynchronous services
We’ve Got You Covered:
- Full medical dental and vision insurance + OneMedical membership
- Healthcare and Dependent Care FSA
- 401(k) with company match
- Flexible PTO
- Wellbeing + Learning & Growth reimbursements
- Paid parental leave + Fertility benefits
- Pet insurance
- Student loan refinancing
- Virtual resources for mindfulness counseling and fitness
Skills Required
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience architecting and building scalable web applications
- Proficiency with Python FastAPI or Django
- Experience in building and maintaining data-intensive production systems
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What We Do
Ro is a direct-to-patient healthcare company with a mission of helping patients achieve their health goals by delivering the easiest most effective care possible. Ro is the only company to offer nationwide telehealth labs and pharmacy services. This is enabled by Ro's vertically integrated platform that helps patients achieve their goals through a convenient end-to-end healthcare experience spanning from diagnosis to delivery of medication to ongoing care. Since 2017 Ro has helped millions of patients in nearly every single county in the United States including 98% of primary care deserts.
Why Work With Us
Ro is powering quality care at scale. The Ro Operating System (ro.OS) vertically integrates the core parts of healthcare bringing together nationwide telehealth lab and pharmacy services on one platform. The result? ro.OS makes it easier for patients to access and providers to deliver high-quality care – millions of times over.
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Date Posted
05/20/2026
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