Ro is looking to hire a Staff Software Engineer to help shape the future of their vertically integrated healthcare platform, driving the delivery of systems that directly impact patients and providers by improving technical stability, scalability, and maintainability.
Requirements
- Experience architecting, designing and building scalable web applications and distributed systems
- Proficiency with Python, relational databases, and frameworks like FastAPI or Django, with hands-on experience in metrics instrumentation and data-driven performance tuning leveraging Ro’s load testing infrastructure and tools like Datadog
- Proven track record of scaling complex, data-intensive backend systems through rapid growth (ideally in a mid-to-late stage startup environment), ensuring high performance and availability
- Deep understanding of distributed systems-data consistency, communication patterns, and service boundaries-backed by hands-on experience building and maintaining data-intensive production systems
- Experience in telehealth or other highly regulated industries
- Experience with decoupling monolithic applications into distributed asynchronous services
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, reliable, and resilient distributed services using Python and FastAPI
- Operate as an owner and technical leader within your team's domain and proactively assess and improve system performance and reliability
- Drive engineering excellence through best practices in testing, monitoring, observability, and performance optimization
- Define and own technical roadmaps, breaking down ambiguous and complex problem spaces into clear project plans and deliverables
- Mentor and collaborate with engineers across levels, raising the technical bar and fostering growth across the team
- Lead cross-functional technical efforts — working closely with product managers, designers, and engineers from adjacent teams to ensure alignment and technical integrity across boundaries
- Participate in on-call rotations to ensure reliability of production systems
Other
- 7 - 10+ years of software engineering experience, including experience in roles involving technical leadership
- Strong sense of ownership, with the ability to understand and break down complex problem spaces into technical roadmaps
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, foster collaboration, and set technical direction
- Recognizes the power of in-person collaboration, while supporting the flexibility to work anywhere in the United States.
