Lead Software Engineer - Front Office AI Platform (Ruby on Rails)
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PracticeTekHealthcare Technology
United StatesFull-TimeLead
Salary145000 - 187000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- AWSDockerPostgreSQLRuby on RailsCI/CDDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and operating backend services using Ruby on Rails or similar frameworks
- Demonstrated ownership of production systems across their full lifecycle
- Experience delivering automation or AI-assisted capabilities in production environments
- Strong backend fundamentals: API design, distributed systems concepts, relational data modeling, and background processing
- Experience with modern cloud-based delivery practices (AWS, Docker, CI/CD)
- Container orchestration is a plus
- A security- and privacy-first mindset, ideally with experience in regulated or sensitive domains
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical partners
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve API-first Rails services that power shared platform capabilities
- Own service architecture and interfaces to support consistency and reuse across products
- Deliver automation and model-assisted features with appropriate safeguards, monitoring, and operational controls
- Establish and uphold best practices for production systems, including configuration management, rollout strategies, and ongoing evaluation
- Design and optimize PostgreSQL data models for correctness, performance, and multi-tenant scale
- Build and operate asynchronous and event-driven processing for high-throughput workloads
- Maintain high standards for observability and reliability, including logging, metrics, alerting, and incident response
- Ensure systems meet security, privacy, and compliance requirements, including careful handling of sensitive healthcare data
- Lead by example through code reviews, technical design, documentation, and mentoring
- Partner closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to deliver durable, high-quality solutions
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