Staff Software Developer

Summary

Join Jane, a remote-first company, and become a Staff Developer on the Insurance Foundations team. You will play a critical role in shaping systems that power US insurance capabilities, focusing on behavioral health and billing code flows. This position involves partnering with the Development Manager to guide technical strategy and collaborate across teams. As a Staff Developer, you will lead by example, mentoring peers and fostering a culture of technical excellence. Jane offers a unique opportunity to work on complex backend systems while contributing to architectural direction. The company values collaboration, humility, and a growth mindset, providing autonomy and flexibility for employees.

Requirements

• A University Degree in Computer Science or a related STEM field plus approximately 10+ years of experience
• Those with a Master's or PhD may be considered with less experience
• Alternatively, candidates with 13+ years of industry experience gained through non-traditional paths, such as bootcamps or self-teaching, are also encouraged to apply!
• Depth and diversity of experience, already operating at the Staff level, demonstrated by working in different capacities across multiple products and companies, bringing a well-rounded perspective on development methodologies, problem-solving techniques, and team collaboration
• Strong experience in designing and evolving backend systems with a pragmatic approach to scaling architecture
• Proven ability to model complex business domains and translate them into scalable, maintainable system architectures that reduce complexity over time
• Extensive experience and ownership in design and architecture, making impactful architectural decisions across more than one team and ensuring alignment with organizational goals
• Experience creating and upholding technical standards, best practices, and culture-building practices across teams and organizations, ensuring adoption and alignment
• A desire to remain actively involved in coding while leading teams through technical challenges, balancing hands-on work with high-level strategy
• Ability to communicate complex technical solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, collaborating effectively with Product Managers, Designers, and others to ensure cohesive product development
• Experience driving internal education efforts such as design reviews, presentations, documentation, or mentorship programs that help teams level up without creating bottlenecks
• Our development team at Jane primarily works with Ruby on Rails, but we welcome applicants with experience in other OOP languages (Java, C#, Python, etc.)
• We strongly believe that great developers can learn any tech stack, so you’ll have the resources and support needed to ramp up on ours if you haven't worked with it previously

Responsibilities

• Guide technical direction and architecture
• Lead a highly senior development team, mentoring peers and helping align on architectural decisions across our insurance domain, with a focus on pragmatic domain modeling and system design
• Simplify the insurance experience
• Lead initiatives that make billing codes and claims processing more intuitive for clinics—especially in behavioral health—by evolving backend systems with thoughtful architectural decisions
• Drive platform evolution
• Contribute to ongoing efforts to decouple Jane's monolithic codebase, identifying opportunities to modularize our platform and make our systems more scalable and maintainable
• Collaborate on integrations
• Work on new integrations with third-party vendors (like clearinghouses) to enable seamless electronic claim submissions, requiring thoughtful API design and backend coordination
• Provide full-stack leadership
• Lead backend architecture while contributing to frontend discussions and decisions. Solid working knowledge of modern frontend frameworks enhances your ability to design cohesive, end-to-end solutions
• Foster technical culture
• Drive internal education efforts through design reviews, documentation, mentorship, and knowledge sharing. Help establish technical standards and best practices that enable teams to move confidently at scale
• Ensure operational excellence
• Champion observability, monitoring, and performance optimization practices to maintain system health and diagnose complex issues efficiently in our growing platform
• Influence organizational impact
• Shape not just your team, but how Jane approaches core domain challenges across insurance, positioning the company to better support clinics in the US and beyond

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Rails is highly valued but not required—we believe great developers can learn any tech stack with proper support
• Solid working knowledge of frontend technologies—particularly React—is a significant bonus, enabling you to contribute to full-stack discussions and architectural alignment

Benefits

• This role has an annual salary range of $154,400 to $241,300
• Most new hires join at the accomplished stage, which for this role represents an annual salary of $183,400
• We believe in paying for growth
• You’ll have regular career development conversations with your manager and your compensation will grow as you gain experience and contribute meaningfully to our mission
• Paying clearly is one of our compensation fundamentals
• We also offer a comprehensive benefits package
• Remote work, flexible hours