Welcome to Brightline! We are in search of a Full Stack Ruby on Rails Principal Software Engineer who will drive the technical direction across our platform, deepen our domain expertise in healthcare workflows, and elevate the entire engineering team's standards. Our tech stack remains simple, with a focus on straightforward solutions and standards. We use Turbo, Tailwind, and ViewComponent to create beautiful UIs, while Stimulus brings them to life. We occasionally sprinkle some React on top, but default to TypeScript for benefits. Our mobile apps leverage Hotwire Native to leverage existing web infrastructure.
We are primarily a Ruby on Rails shop and we prioritize simplicity and a focus on shipping fast without investing in new technologies. Instead of betting on exciting new technologies, we favor straightforward solutions and defining standards, making the codebase and ecosystem a joy to work with.
Responsibilities:
- Drive collaboration on technical direction for complex, cross-cutting systems, including data modeling, API design, clinical workflow architecture, and integration patterns
- Scope and shape work end-to-end, from identifying the right problem to solving it, closely collaborating with product and design to define what "done" looks like
- Write code across the entire stack, including Ruby + Rails on the backend and Turbo/Tailwind on the frontend, with a focus on systems and abstractions
- Evaluate technical risk and tradeoffs clearly, know when to invest in architecture and when to ship the simplest thing that works
- Mentor and elevate the team through architecture discussions, pairing, code review, and setting high standards without gatekeeping
- Build deep domain expertise in our problem space, challenging product assumptions, and advocating for provider and member experience
- Collaborate across engineering, product, design, and clinical/operations teams to ensure technical decisions serve business and clinical goals
Requirements:
- Excited about improving behavioral health for children, teens, and their families
- Significant experience developing software professionally, primarily Ruby + Rails, with a track record of influencing technical direction beyond your own code
- Shape how the team thinks about systems, see how individual features connect to the broader architecture, and articulate tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Own problems, not just tickets, dig into the domain, question assumptions, and find the right solution even when it's not the obvious one
- Thoughtful and empathetic in how you carry yourself, from decision making and execution, to communication and collaboration
- Raise the bar for the team through your work, feedback, and willingness to make things better without being asked
- Thrive in a flat, self-managing team where influence comes from clarity and trust, not authority
- Have developed your own workflow for building software with AI coding tools — opinions on when agents help, when they hurt, and how to get the best out of them
- Care about solving problems and aren't tied to particular solutions or technologies
Bonus Points:
- Healthcare, especially clinical workflows, scheduling systems, EHR integrations, insurance billing, or multi-clinic operations
- Complex data modeling and migration challenges, unifying systems, managing domain complexity
- API development and integrating with third-party systems
- Working in Shape Up or similar appetite-based development methodologies
At Brightline, We Offer:
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Long-Term Disability, Life Insurance, Flexible Spending Account, and 401k
- 12 Company Holidays, Holiday Shutdown, Paid Time Off, Parental Leave
- Health and Wellness Stipend, Home Office Reimbursement, Cell Phone & Internet Reimbursement, and Professional Development Reimbursement
- Stock Options
At Brightline, we have built a total rewards philosophy that includes fair, equitable, competitive, geo-based compensation that is performance and potential based. Our strategy is based on robust market research, including external advisory specializing in national compensation, and thoughtful input from every level of our organization. It is a combination of a cash salary, equity, benefits, wellbeing, and opportunity. In compliance with the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the annual base salary range for applicants is 5,000-0,000.
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