Staff Software Engineer, Growth

Brightside Health

Full-Stack Staff Software Engineer, Growth at Brightside Health improving outcomes in mental healthcare through innovative technology and collaboration.

Posted 6/26/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $175,000 - $225,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ReactRubyRuby on RailsTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

Ruby on RailsTypeScriptReactrelational databasesschema designdata modelingAPI integrationA/B testingautomationAI coding tools

Soft Skills

problem-solvingcommunicationmentorshipproduct judgmentdata instinctsautonomycollaborationdecision-makingexperimentationclarity in ambiguity