Staff Backend Engineer Rust or Ruby (561)

Job description

**STAFF BACKEND ENGINEER (RUST)** **About the opportunity** Drive the expansion of a high-impact healthcare data platform while leading technical standards, scaling distributed infrastructure, and launching AI initiatives. **About our client** Our client provides API infrastructure for the health insurance and employee benefits ecosystem - connecting exchange data, enrollment, and market insights through a single integration point. **What you'll do** - Build and expand our healthcare data platform and member management solution. - Write high quality code through various channels and in collaboration with the Product team. - Have a high degree of autonomy and influence on the culture and direction of the technical organization. - Take unstructured problems and own projects end-to-end. - Scale infrastructure that connects health insurance carriers and technology partners. - Improve engineering standards and processes. - Mentor junior engineers. **What you bring (must-haves)** - Hands-on experience with building and launching AI projects. - Care deeply about your software development craft and writing high quality code. - Have experience in designing, building and maintaining APIs. - At least 8+ years of software engineering experience. - Have a high degree of proficiency in Rust or Ruby. - Thrive in highly collaborative engineering teams. - Emphasize transparent and positive communication. **Bonus points for (nice-to-haves)** - Familiarity with Ruby. - Experience with DevOps tooling: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform. - Exposure to observability tools such as Datadog. - Experience in performance monitoring, incident handling, or CI/CD process optimization. - Background in large-scale distributed systems or infrastructure-heavy products. **Perks & benefits** 💻 Equipment provided — none of that "bring your own device" stuff here 🛡️ Full back-office support — Legal, Accounting, HR Business Partner, and Delivery team 🧭 Career and cultural mentoring — how to show up, stand out, and navigate US work culture 🗣️ Free English lessons with a native speaker 🤝 Referral bonus — recommend Ubi to your tech friends and get paid for it 🏖️ Florianópolis HQ always open — 100% remote, but the office is there whenever you want it. **How the process works** 1. Interview with our Tech Recruiter (+ quick AI assessment, if needed) 2. Client interview process (varies by company) 3. Offer 🎉 4. Onboarding with full Ubiminds support **Why Ubiminds?** With 9 years in the market and GPTW-certified, Ubiminds connects Latin American tech professionals with software companies in the US and Canada. Hundreds of professionals in data, design, product, and engineering are already growing in North American teams with our support. We're with you throughout the entire journey — Recruitment, Legal, Accounting, PeopleOps, and career guidance — so you can thrive internationally with confidence. Ready to go global? Apply now — it takes less than 5 minute