Staff Software Engineer at Fuze Health
$178,400–$223,000from the description
Jul 6, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on shaping the architectural direction of a digital pharmacy platform. Day-to-day work spans designing distributed systems and APIs, optimizing PostgreSQL workloads, maintaining AWS infrastructure, and setting engineering standards across multiple product teams. The position suits an experienced engineer with a background in Ruby on Rails or Python who has led large-scale architecture work in regulated healthcare or similarly complex environments.
Staff level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,100–5,300
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The JD explicitly frames this as a Staff-level individual contributor role ('principal technical leader', 'highly technical IC', cross-squad force multiplier), which aligns with the Staff band — not merely Senior.
The core language requirement is stated as 'expert-level mastery in at least one core language (Ruby on Rails or Python)' — these are genuine alternatives for a single gate; both are also emitted separately as required skills because the JD also lists Python independently in the stack description. Ruby on Rails and Python are captured as mutual alternatives on each other's skill entry.
TypeScript and JavaScript are listed together ('TypeScript/JavaScript') in the required qualifications as distinct but co-required technologies; emitted as separate skills.
AWS-specific services (ECS, RDS, Lambda, VPC) appear as parenthetical examples within the required qualifications block. ECS, Lambda, and RDS are emitted as preferred since they are illustrative examples rather than individually gated requirements; VPC is omitted as it is a networking construct rather than a discrete skill.
HIPAA and SOC2 compliance are explicitly called out as required architectural concerns ('adhere strictly to healthcare regulations (e.g., HIPAA, SOC2)').
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree … or equivalent practical experience', so no formal degree is hard-gated.
Preferred qualifications include a Master's degree, prior Pharmacy Tech / Digital Health / HealthTech experience, and healthcare interoperability (EHR integrations) — these are captured as preferred skills or noted here.
The role is restricted to candidates residing in a specific list of US states; it is not available in all 50 states, though the caller has confirmed it should be treated as fully remote with a national pool.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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