Software Engineer

Position Description

RubiconMD is an innovative healthcare company bringing better care at lower costs to providers and their patients across the country. RubiconMD’s mission is to ensure that all patients have access to the care they need no matter who they are or where they live. It’s no small order but we achieve it with the right team. That’s why we hire empathetic passionate and strong leaders who are looking to make an impact in the world through our core values: Human Agile Innovative & Collaborative.

If you’re passionate about having a positive impact by revolutionizing the healthcare system and democratizing access to care we’d love to learn more about you!  Our engineering team is located across the US primarily based in New York City and throughout Spain.

Key responsibilities include:

• Champion end-to-end feature development with participation in system design & architecture engineering implementation software release and technical support

• Share and be open to learn from your peers via pair programming technical writing code reviews architecture discussions and active engagement with stakeholders

• Make explicit tradeoffs between technical implementation directions and strive to clearly communicate to your peers what data drove you to make these choices

• Identify and advocate for opportunities to improve the performance reliability and scalability of technical stack and processes

• Build accessible secure and performant software solutions in a highly regulated healthcare environment. These may include on platform features internal support tooling mobile applications and third party integrations

About our stack:

Everything's up for debate but we want to leave you with a good idea of what tools we are using today. While keeping our current tool box up to date we are open minded about trying new technologies and ideas that may better fit our needs.

At the highest level our Ruby on Rails backend is hosted in AWS with our Angular frontend being served through a CDN. We process tasks asynchronously and leverage a frontend cache to help reduce network calls against our GraphQL APIs. Our Data Science team works off of a data lake pulling dataframes into python for reporting and analytics.

This is the general idea and we’re happy to jump into all the details with you!

Desired skills and experience:

• We are using the most recent version of Rails which means we hope you’ve had strong experience in Ruby or other object-oriented languages along with a deep understanding of the MVC pattern and how an ORM impacts SQL.

• When things get tough we count on you to jump into the Rails console and our logs in Datadog and utilize your underlying experience in designing scalable applications.

• We favor reusability and share libraries across projects. You should have opinions on defining and maintaining shared resources and both internal and external libraries.

• In delivering robust software we expect you to bring some opinions about clean code testability and design patterns.

• We use GraphQL as a query language for our API between frontend and backend. You should have experience utilizing APIs and designing contracts between engineering teams.

How we work:

We use scrum to organize into delivery teams which are autonomous and responsible for holistically delivery features and pilots to our users. Our teams include fullstack frontend and backend engineers. We round out the team with a dedicated Scrum Master and Product Owner. These teams operate on a two-week sprint.

Additionally we have DevOps and Data Science teams providing support and insight across team functions. Compensation

The target salary range for this position is $125000-135000 and we anticipate that most qualified candidates will fall near the middle of this range. Compensation for the successful candidate will be determined by the candidate’s unique combination of knowledge skills competencies and experience. This role is also eligible for employee benefits and other compensation.

Our Hiring Philosophy

RubiconMD’s founding mission is to democratize medical expertise so that all patient populations have access to the care they need. In order to deliver on this we focus on empowering primary care providers who we believe are the key to a thriving equitable health care system. It’s no small order but we can achieve it with the right team. That’s why we hire people with drive and leadership who are also highly accountable—to each other to the providers we serve and to the impact we exist to make.

RubiconMD is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination against persons of any kind on the basis of race color religion gender sexual orientation nation of origin age disability and genetics.

**COVID-19 vaccination is a condition of employment unless there is a legally protected reason for an accommodation.