ABOUT US
Started by Stanford/MIT serial entrepreneurs, Ruby Robotics is maximizing patient outcomes with tissue insights at the point of care. Using custom-built hardware and AI, our platform optimizes biopsy and surgical procedure workflow while delivering disease analytics early in the patient’s journey. This facilitates faster, more informed treatment decisions for patients as well as improved staffing and operational workflow for hospitals. Funded by healthcare and deep tech VCs, our team is lean, fast, and works intensely towards the goal of improving cancer patient care.
ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY
We are looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Full Stack Developer who will develop and maintain the frontend and backend software systems for our novel medical instruments.
Successful candidates will demonstrate the ability to see a project through product development, commercialization, and post commercialization improvements requiring excellent technical and organizational skills, ability to react to frequent physician feedback, and strong attention to detail. They will have a proven track record of developing, scaling, and maintaining robust frontend and backend systems, ensuring scalability, security, and low-latency data transmission in the regulated medical field. Knowledge in working with sensitive patient information requiring expertise in security engineering, strong encryption, including intrusion detection and monitoring in cloud database solutions is a plus. For qualified candidates, there will be opportunities to expand leadership responsibility across Ruby’s software team. Although we are open to a hybrid role, preference will be given for candidates who are open to working daily on-site with our engineers in San Carlos CA.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Backend Development:
- Implement and optimize web socket servers and other data transmission methods to
support low-latency image transfer
- Deploy solutions on cloud platforms, particularly AWS, leveraging services like EC2, S3,
Lambda
- Implement and optimize real-time server-client communication (e.g. SignalR in
Windows.NET)
- Frontend Development
- Develop desktop applications for Windows and macOS using Dart under the Flutter
framework
- Work closely with physicians to iterate on frontend user interfaces
- Ensure secure handling of Protected Health Information (PHI) by implementing robust
security and compliance strategies
- Collaborate with a cross functional team of product managers, AI scientists, hardware engineers, and other stakeholders to deliver seamless applications
- Communicate technical challenges, solutions, and progress to non-technical stakeholders
- Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement enhancements to improve efficiency and reliability
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code while ensuring adherence to best practices
- Perform design and code reviews and manage documentation to ensure traceability across the product development process
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 5+ years of progressive post-graduate experience as a full stack engineer in backend development
- 3+ years post-graduate experience with Dart programming
- Expertise in building and optimizing socket servers or data transfer solutions for large data sets with real-time server-client communication, ideally on SignalR in Windows.NET framework
- Experience deploying and managing cloud infrastructure using AWS including infrastructure provisioning, software deployment and testing
- Solid understanding of software architecture principles, RESTful API design, and microservices
- Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to facilitate rapid and reliable releases
- Strong understanding of software development processes and methodologies
- Proficient in handling and securing PHI with a strong understanding of security protocols and HIPAA compliance, is a plus.
- Works well in a small agile startup team.
- Strong team player who believes that collaboration, trust, dedication, resilience, continuous improvement, ownership and accountability are the path to success
- Ability to work on-site at our San Carlos CA facility at least 2 days a week (additional days on-site preferred)
Ruby-Robotics is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to offer a safe environment for our employees and do not discriminate based upon race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and expression, age, veteran status, or disability.