Sr. Software Engineer - Trust and Safety (Remote) at Rula
Los Angeles, CA
$172,550–$203,000
Jul 15, 2026
Los Angeles, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role on a newly formed Trust & Safety team, focused on building systems to detect and mitigate fraud, billing anomalies, and credential abuse across a mental healthcare platform. The work spans full-stack web development, microservices, and custom tooling, with an expectation of contributing to architecture decisions and mentoring other engineers. Suits experienced engineers comfortable establishing a domain from scratch in a remote-first environment.
Senior level · 4+ years · Remote · Full-time
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The JD states '4+ years of SWE experience, 1+ years working on Trust & Safety systems & 1+ years of experience helping with a brand new project or team' as a single compound requirement; the overall years minimum is set to 4 (the overall SWE floor), and Trust & Safety systems carries its own 1-year minimum.
SQL and NoSQL are presented as interchangeable alternatives ('sql/no-sql') for the database-backed web application requirement; SQL is listed as primary with NoSQL as the alternative.
Fullstack development is a hard gate per the Required Qualifications section, but no specific frontend or backend framework is named — only the general fullstack + database-backed web app pattern is required.
AWS, SaaS experience, Node.js, TypeScript, and Kafka all appear exclusively under the Preferred Qualifications section.
The posting mentions 'full transparency of pay ranges regardless of where you live in the United States' but does not actually publish a specific pay range in the text provided; no compensation figures are extracted.
Rula explicitly excludes Hawaii from its remote-US hiring pool.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): fullstack development.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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