<h2>About SonderMind</h2> <p>At SonderMind, we believe everyone deserves one personalized, connected, and effective mental health destination to take care of their mental health and well-being at any stage of life. SonderMind care encompasses everything from therapy and medication management to meditation and mindfulness exercises. Our clinicians leverage our digital tools and research to deliver increasingly high-quality care and to develop thriving practices. Combining technology and human connection, SonderMind drives better outcomes through our comprehensive approach. Learn more about SonderMind at sondermind.com or download the mobile app, available on iOS and Android. To follow the latest SonderMind news, get to know our clients, and learn about what it’s like to work at SonderMind, you can follow us on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sondermind/?hl=en">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/sondermind/">Linkedin</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/SonderMind?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Twitter</a>.</p> <h2>About the Role</h2> <p>We’re turning our online mental health services into a provider platform that any health plan, payer, employer, or med-tech app can plug into. You’ll design and ship the APIs, webhooks, and integration points that make that possible. Your work will remove friction for partners, protect patient data, and get people care faster.</p> <h2>What you’ll do</h2> <ul> <li>Own key platform APIs end to end, from RFC to rollout and monitoring</li> <li>Shape the partner developer experience (docs, SDKs, sample apps, sandbox flows)</li> <li>Build clean contracts and stable interfaces for identity, eligibility, scheduling, claims, and reporting</li> <li>Work with standards like OAuth2/OpenID Connect and FHIR/HL7 when they help, and keep things simple when they don’t</li> <li>Collaborate with product, security, data, and customer teams to turn real integration pain points into shipped solutions</li> <li>Measure impact and iterate quickly</li> <li>Lead the design, development, and optimization of services built on Ruby on Rails.</li> <li>Architect and implement event-based systems leveraging RabbitMQ and other messaging technologies.</li> <li>Design and optimize schemas and queries for relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL).</li> <li>Drive the development of FHIR-compliant APIs for healthcare interoperability.</li> <li>Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across teams.</li> <li>Partner with product, compliance, and business stakeholders to translate healthcare workflows into reliable software solutions.</li> <li>Advocate for engineering best practices including code quality, testing, CI/CD, and system observability.</li> <li>Collaborate in cross-functional discussions on scalability, security, and patient data protection.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>What does success look like?  </strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>30 days: understand the systems, earn trust, adapt to the workflow:</strong></li> <ul> <li>learn how the stack fits together, ship a few quick wins, and line up the first bigger initiative.</li> <li>Find your groove on the refiners meetings, turning business requirements into sharp focused JIRA tickets.</li> <li>Develop a technical design document for a larger feature and get it rolling.</li> </ul> <li><strong>60 days: lead an initiative and de-risk it:</strong></li> <ul> <li>Take ownership of a cross-team project from design to first value in prod and raise the bar through reviews, patterns, and mentoring.</li> <li>Find your cruising speed and hit your sprint velocity.</li> <li>Root out a significant piece of technical debt and resolve it.</li> </ul> <li><strong>90 days:</strong></li> <ul> <li>Establish a leadership presence on the team.</li> <li>Propose and roll out changes that affect higher quality releases and reduce bug rates.</li> <li>Understand the strengths and shortcomings of the system and propose a roadmap to improve system reliability and observability.</li> <li>Acquire deep expertise on our systems, communicate with external business partners and become the leading expert on our Enterprise APIs.</li> </ul> </ul> <h2>Who You Are</h2> <p><strong>Required:</strong></p> <ul> <li>10+ years of professional software engineering experience.<br /><br /></li> <li>5+ years with Ruby on Rails in large-scale production environments.<br /><br /></li> <li>Proven experience with event-driven architectures and RabbitMQ (or similar message brokers).<br /><br /></li> <li>Strong background in relational database design and performance optimization.<br /><br /></li> <li>Hands-on experience developing FHIR-based APIs.<br /><br /></li> <li>Familiarity with healthcare systems, interoperability standards, and compliance considerations (e.g., HIPAA).<br /><br /></li> <li>Ability to provide architectural guidance, mentor engineers, and drive technical initiatives</li> </ul> <p><strong>Preferred:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience with Python in production systems.<br /><br /></li> <li>Background in building highly available, distributed systems in healthcare or other regulated industries.<br /><br /></li> <li>A mix of startup and enterprise healthcare experience.<br /><br /></li> <li>Experience scaling systems in cloud-native environments (AWS).<br /><br /></li> <li>Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Our Benefits </strong></h2> <p>The anticipated salary range for this role is $160,000 - $180,000 annually. Final compensation will be determined based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, skills, education, and past performance. In addition to base salary, this position may also be eligible for a variable bonus and equity.</p> <p>As leaders in redesigning behavioral health, we walk the walk with our employees benefits. We want the experience of working at SonderMind to accelerate people’s careers and enrich their lives, so we focus on meeting SonderMinders wherever they are and supporting them in all facets of their lives and work.</p> <p>Our benefits include:</p> <ul> <li>A commitment to fostering flexible hybrid work</li> <li>A generous PTO policy with a minimum of three weeks off per year</li> <li>Free therapy coverage benefits to ensure our employees have access to the care they need (must be enrolled in our medical plans to participate)</li> <li>Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage with plans to meet every need, including HSA ($1,100 company contribution) and FSA options</li> <li>Employer-paid short-term, long-term disability, life &amp; AD&amp;D to cover lifes unexpected events. Not only that, we also cover the difference in salary for up to seven (7) weeks of short-term disability leave (after the required waiting period) should you need to use it.</li> <li>Eight weeks of paid Parental Leave (if the parent also qualifies for STD, this benefit is in addition, which allows between 8-16 weeks of paid leave)</li> <li>401K retirement plan with 100% matching which immediately vests on up to 4% of base salary</li> <li>Travel to Denver 1x a year for annual Shift gathering</li> <li>Fourteen (14) company holidays</li> <li>Company Shutdown between Christmas and New Years</li> <li>Supplemental life insurance, pet insurance coverage, commuter benefits and more!</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Application Deadline</strong></h2> <p>This position will be an ongoing recruitment process and will be open until filled.</p> <h2><strong>Equal Opportunity </strong></h2> <p>SonderMind does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on race, color, creed, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, religion, veteran and military status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including genetic information or characteristics), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.</p>

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