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LeadContractJavaScriptJavaReactRailsPostgreSQL
Salary Range
$153,000 - $207,000 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to join a high-volume GLP-1 brand operating at the intersection of telehealth, pharmacy operations, and e-commerce. This role will own complex data models and system architecture within a Ruby on Rails monolith, ensuring scalability and maintainability as the business scales.
Key Responsibilities
- →Design and evolve complex data models and system architecture for a production Rails monolith
- →Lead development of intakes, eligibility flows, and clinical and operational workflows
- →Build and maintain carts, checkouts, discounts, subscriptions, and renewals
- →Manage the full order lifecycle, including refunds, retries, and payment reconciliation
- →Mentor mid-level and junior developers, conduct code reviews, and establish technical standards
- →Translate business requirements into technical designs and break initiatives into coherent projects
- →Design safe, reversible database migrations and own background jobs and operational resilience
Requirements
- ✓10+ years of professional software engineering experience with MVC web frameworks
- ✓Deep Ruby on Rails expertise, including experience with substantial Rails monoliths
- ✓Strong hands-on experience across routing, models, controllers, views, and background jobs
- ✓Proven data modeling and system architecture experience for real business domains
- ✓Experience evolving live production schemas without downtime
- ✓Experience with e-commerce and transactional systems, including carts, checkouts, orders, subscriptions, and payment gateways
- ✓PostgreSQL schema design, indexing, and query optimization for transactional and reporting workloads
- ✓Experience leading projects, influencing architecture, and mentoring developers
- ✓Telehealth or healthcare experience preferred
- ✓Experience with Fly.io, Solid Queue, PlanetScale, Grafana, and startup environments preferred
Benefits
- ★Opportunity to shape the core architecture of a high-growth telehealth and e-commerce platform
- ★Direct impact on system scalability, data integrity, and product evolution
- ★Mentorship of a growing engineering team
- ★Influence on technical direction and meaningful architectural decisions
- ★Work in a fast-moving, high-volume environment with founders and product leaders
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