Senior Software Engineer I, Specialty Care Growth
Senior full-stack engineer on Spring Health's Specialty Care Growth team, building member-facing experiences that drive growth and retention of specialty mental health care through rapid experimentation and iteration. Stack centers on Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React, and TypeScript, with heavy use of AI coding tools.
- Compensation
- $183K–$205.5K / yr
- Location
- San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- 3+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React, and TypeScript
- Strong proficiency in building full-stack applications
- Actively uses AI coding tools (e.g., Claude, Codex, Copilot), iterating on prompts and critically reviewing AI-generated code
- Experience leading technical designs and multi-person engineering projects
- Strong problem-solving skills with focus on clean, maintainable, secure code
- Comfortable working on an agile team; curious about learning new things, including evolving AI capabilities
- Proven ability to mentor and develop other engineers
- Embraces writing well-designed tests that accompany all code
- Based in the San Francisco area or able to relocate independently within 90 days of start date
Nice to have
- Experience with A/B testing, feature flags, and product analytics on a growth/engagement/retention team
- Experience building healthcare, benefits, or mental health products, especially member-facing experiences with sensitive data
Full description
Our mission: eliminating every barrier to mental health.
Spring Health is a global mental health company on a mission to eliminate every barrier to mental health. We're building a world where getting support is simple, personal, and built around the person, so care can continue through every job, move, health plan, and life stage.
Our AI-native platform helps us deliver personalized support across self-guided tools, coaching, therapy, medication management, and specialty care. With outcomes independently validated by JAMA Network Open and the Validation Institute, Spring Health reaches more than 170 million people worldwide through leading employers, health plans, and partners.
As an AI-native company, we believe technology should expand the reach, quality, and humanity of care. Every Spring Health team member is expected to use AI tools thoughtfully, apply human judgment to AI outputs, and keep building AI fluency in ways that support their role and our mission.
Reporting to the Engineering Manager, Specialty Care Growth, this Senior Software Engineer I will build and own full-stack experiences that help members discover, access, and stay engaged in Specialty Care. This role is part of the Specialty Care Growth team and is instrumental in driving growth and retention for Specialty Care through rapid experimentation and iteration.
This is a hybrid role based in San Francisco with an expectation to be in the office 2-3 days per week at our [San Francisco office address — confirm] location. Candidates must be based in the San Francisco area or able to relocate independently within 90 days of their start date. Occasional travel will be required for team on-sites.
What you’ll do
- Write, review, and optimize production-ready code daily while making key technical decisions and holding a high bar for code quality.
- Lead technical design reviews and produce technical designs as a primary author—delivering elegant solutions to complex problems.
- Use AI tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot) to support technical design, explore tradeoffs, accelerate delivery, and augment code reviews—while critically evaluating all AI-generated output to ensure it meets team quality and security standards.
- Identify repeatable tasks that can be accelerated with AI; guide junior engineers on effective and responsible AI usage.
- Lead multi-person, multi-sprint projects: coordinate execution, manage dependencies and tradeoffs, and build alignment across stakeholders.
- Raise and address security concerns in PRs and designs; proactively highlight performance implications and conduct load/performance testing.
- Drive engineering best practices within your team—your code quality and approach serve as a model for others.