Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Rugiet is a high-growth, innovative telemedicine company pioneering patented solutions in the men's health space. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead projects, mentor engineers, and enhance the developer experience while building scalable product features.
Responsibilities
- Lead projects end-to-end: shape requirements with product and design, architect solutions, write clean and well-tested code, and ensure smooth rollout and iteration
- Mentor other engineers and contribute to architectural discussions
- Enhance our tooling, performance, and overall developer experience
- Design, build, and maintain features across our Ruby on Rails and React/Next.js stack, from database and APIs to UI
- Translate product requirements and UX designs into clear technical plans, breaking work into well-scoped milestones
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code with a focus on performance, scalability, and security
- Participate actively in code reviews—giving and receiving feedback to improve code quality and team consistency
- Help plan and execute releases, monitor impact, and iterate based on data and user feedback
- Work closely with Product, Design, Operations, and Clinical stakeholders to deeply understand problems and propose pragmatic solutions
- Communicate trade-offs, risks, and timelines to ensure transparency for partners
- Participate in and lead technical design discussions
- Create clear, concise documentation for features, systems, and decisions
- Proactively identify and address technical debt in areas of ownership, balancing refactoring with product delivery
- Improve reliability and observability in services (logging, metrics, alerts) to facilitate issue discovery and debugging
- Apply modern frontend and backend performance techniques (e.g., Rails query optimization, caching, React/Next.js SSR/ISR, image optimization)
- Enhance testing practices and coverage
- Support and mentor other engineers through pairing, design reviews, and code reviews
- Model calm, thoughtful behavior during ambiguity or time pressure
- Help maintain a culture that values kindness, directness, and ownership over ego and heroics
- Contribute to interviews and onboarding, aiding candidates and new hires in understanding team practices
Skills
- 6+ years of professional experience building and operating production web applications, with significant experience across backend and frontend
- Proficiency with modern frontend practices using React and/or Next.js (hooks, component composition, routing, basic performance tuning)
- Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred): schema design, indexing, query optimization, and safe migrations
- Comfort in a fast-paced, product-driven environment with iterative delivery and tight feedback loops
- Proven ability to own projects end-to-end: from clarifying requirements to production rollout and follow-up
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to explain technical decisions to both engineers and non-engineers
- Experience in telehealth, healthcare, or other regulated environments (privacy, compliance, safety focus)
- Deeper expertise with Next.js features (SSR, ISR, dynamic imports, etc)
- Familiarity with testing frameworks such as RSpec, Jest, Cypress, or similar
- Experience improving developer experience (CI/CD pipelines, build tooling, repo structure, local dev workflows)
- Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, modern LLMs) to improve velocity and code quality
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