Compensation Overview

We are looking for a Backend Engineer to join our Platform Team. The Platform team maintains and improves the core Ruby/Rails system that powers the help & care Spring Health offers, and enables other development teams to succeed in our mission to eliminate barriers to mental health. You will help build software that ensures sensitive data is handled efficiently, safely, and with an eye for scale. You will drive forward engineering initiatives that improve the reliability and maintainability of the core engineering platform

What You’ll be Doing:

• Backend Systems Refinement: Leverage your experience with Ruby on Rails to iterate on our core services & data models.
• Quality Assurance: Craft and execute comprehensive tests to ensure the integrity of our systems.
• Observability and Monitoring: Implement comprehensive observability and monitoring to ensure the success and reliability of our core systems. Work with your team & other engineering teams at Spring Health to build & improve tools that allow operations teams to function efficiently.
• Collaborate with other Engineers: As a Ruby/Rails engineer at Spring Health, you will collaborate closely with other engineers in the organization, working to build a uniform approach to platform development and to help establish core platform standards within Rails. You will understand the needs of stakeholders within the organization and ensure they can reliably deliver their work using platform core services. 

What success looks like in this role: 

• Deliver an innovative product feature suite on-time while emphasizing scalability, efficiency, and maintainability
• Maintain strong engineering practices (e.g. minimizing code churn, cycle time, etc…)
• Follow architectures and patterns that allow for integrations and scalable growth
• Raise the bar for engineering excellence and delivery

What we expect from you:

• 3+ years of professional development experience
• Experience with Ruby on Rails & rSpec
• Bonus points for experience with Docker & AWS
• Bonus points for GraphQL API design experience
• Bonus points for Frontend experience (Typescript and UI development)
• Comfortable working on an agile team and curious about learning new things, experience on larger teams
• Enjoy participating in discussions and reinforcing org-wide guidelines around Ruby, Rails, and OOP best practices 
• Comfortable moving fast and working through ambiguity - we are a fast-moving startup and are working on balancing the demands of business growth and platform reliability

The target base salary range for this position is $120,000 - $150,250, and is part of a competitive total rewards package including stock options and benefits. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all employee pay and compensation programs annually at minimum to ensure competitive and fair pay.

Benefits provided by Spring Health:

Your Total Health:

• Health, Dental, Vision benefits start on your first day at Spring Health. You and your dependents also receive an individual One Medicalaccount which is valued at $199/year per user. HSA and FSA plans available
• A yearly allotment of no cost visits to the Spring Health network of therapists, coaches, and medication management providers for you and your dependents
• 10 allocated sick days per year
• Flexible paid time off in addition to 12 paid holidays throughout the year
• Access to Gympass, an on-demand virtual benefit that provides wellbeing coaching, and budget management.
• Spring Renewal: When you hit your four-year Springaversary, you’ll be awarded afourweek, fullypaid, sabbatical leave to renew and recharge. 

You And Your family:

• 4-4.5 months of fully paid parental leave
• Spring Health provides team members and their families with sponsored access to Bright Horizons® child care, back-up care, and elder care.
• Access to fertility care support through Carrot, in addition to $4,000 reimbursement for related fertility expenses

Supporting you financially through:

• Our People team benchmarks all salaries using theRadford Global Compensation Databasefor technology and life sciences industries. Radford benchmarks salaries with 3,589 global firms, 6.5 million employees, and 98 countries across the globe. We do this to ensure all of our team members are paid equally and competitively.
• On top of competitive and benchmarked salary, Spring Health offers incentive pay (based on role), and equity that begins vesting as we celebrate your first year with the company!
• Employer sponsored 401(k) match of up to 2% after 90 days of employment

Creating a culture you can thrive in:

• Flexible work arrangements: 66% of Spring Health team members work fully remote while 33% work in a hybrid model from our New York City offices
• Focus Fridays: no meetings, no distractions, just time for you to get work done.
• Focus Weeks: In Spring 2023, we held our first ever Focus Week, we canceled all non-essential meetings, minimized distractions, and you, our team members, to dive into the key work that gets chopped up or deprioritized during the regular day-to-day. We saw a 36% jump in the average energized score after those five days of flow state work and are finalizing a plan for quarterly Focus Weeks for team members.
• Up to $1,000 Professional Development Reimbursement per calendar year.
• $200 per year donation matching to support your favorite causes