Staff Software Developer

Job description

Join Our Mission: Help the Helpers with Jane

Let’s kick things off with a quick intro. Jane is a team that’s all about fostering growth, spreading delight, and serving our healthcare community. We’re on the hunt for people ready to jump in and join us while we simplify the lives of healthcare practitioners and patients daily. And guess what? Jane is a remote-first company, meaning every role at Jane, including this one, is remote — giving you the freedom to work from any corner of Canada.

Your Role in Our Journey

As a Staff Developer on Jane’s Insurance Foundations team, you’ll play a critical role in shaping the systems that power our US insurance capabilities. While the team is currently focused on behavioral health and billing code flows for the US market, your work will influence Jane’s long-term strategy for insurance across all markets. This is a unique opportunity to work on complex backend systems while contributing to architectural direction and mentorship within a team of experienced developers.

You’ll partner closely with the Development Manager to guide technical strategy, facilitate cross-team collaboration, and help ensure our platform scales thoughtfully. At Jane, we view Staff Developers as leaders who balance deep technical expertise with strong people and communication skills—you’ll be expected to lead not just by shipping code, but by helping others succeed and fostering a culture of technical excellence.

Learn More About Us

We’re founder-led, which means we live our values while maintaining a clear vision for the future. Our product enables the likes of physiotherapists, mental health counsellors, chiropractors, and other allied health practitioners to run their practices in a digital-first way through features such as online booking, charting, scheduling, telehealth, secure payments and billing along with an evolving library of features. You can see more of them here.

There is often a high bar set, not just for the quality of work, but for the care we show for each other and our customers. And it’s our customers raising that bar, never standing still and continually improving which keeps us on our toes. It’s not just about what you’ve done before or how quickly you work; it’s about your curiosity and drive to solve the right problems and your agility in learning new ways of thinking.

No doubt, Jane’s a special place to work. There is autonomy and flexibility to help integrate work into your life in a way that makes sense for you. Need to block out time to pick up the kids? Go for it. That’s normal here. And yes, we have a Slack channel for parents, but we’ve also got channels dedicated to plants, furry friends, food, pride, wellness - you get the idea! While we love to connect virtually, the Jane team also connects in person throughout the year. That comes in the form of departmental get-togethers, company retreats, or possibly a conference or two across North America if you’re keen to learn more about our community of healthcare providers. We’re on the search for folks who are ready to dive in and become part of our journey toward making healthcare professionals’ lives easier every single day.

You can also learn more about Jane as a company and a product by checking out our Glassdoor reviews and our Capterra Reviews.

Our vision as we move towards 2025 is all about creating More Happier Helpers. That means not just growing in numbers, but growing a community of thriving healthcare professionals who provide top-notch care with Jane at the heart of their operations. If you’re someone who’s feeling stifled by bureaucracy, itching to shake things up, or just someone who wants to make a genuine impact in the world, consider if the Jane team is the place for you.

We believe in collaboration, humility, and keeping a growth mindset. We’re looking for people who can embrace our way of working, which often means being flexible and open to change. So, if after reading this, you feel excited about the opportunity — all in the name of helping those who help others — reach out to us to learn more.

In short, if you’re excited by our growth, ready to contribute to a challenging yet rewarding environment, and eager to be a disruptor alongside a team of talented individuals, we’d love to hear from you!

The Impact You Could Have

• 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.

The Experience We Feel We Need

• 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. Experience with Rails is highly valued but not required—we believe great developers can learn any tech stack with proper support.
• Proven ability to model complex business domains and translate them into scalable, maintainable system architectures that reduce complexity over time.
• Solid working knowledge of frontend technologies—particularly React—is a significant bonus, enabling you to contribute to full-stack discussions and architectural alignment.
• 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.

Compensation & Benefits

At Jane, we’re committed to paying fairly, clearly, and above all, paying for growth. This role has an annual salary range of $154,400 to $241,300. While that is a large range, it is intentional. It reflects the full growth journey someone might take in the role, from developing skills early on to becoming highly proficient and ultimately achieving excellence.

Most new hires join at the accomplished stage, which for this role represents an annual salary of $183,400. A starting salary below this typically indicates a candidate with strong potential who is still developing key skills. Salaries above this usually apply to existing team members who have made a significant impact and bring deep Jane-specific knowledge.

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. Watch this short video to learn how our salary bands are set. You’re also encouraged to ask questions about compensation at any point during the interview process.

We also offer a comprehensive benefits package, You can learn more about it here!

At Jane, we’re committed to fostering an environment that allows you to come to work as your truest self. We believe it’s important to actively recognize, embrace, and celebrate our differences in order to make Jane an inclusive, equitable, and diverse workplace.

We want to build a team of people who make conversations rich with perspective and experience. We are committed to listening to every voice in order to learn and grow because doing this will allow us to meet the needs of the diverse community of helpers that Jane serves.

We do not tolerate discrimination, prejudice, or oppressive isms of any kind. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, experience, and the needs of the Jane community. We encourage anyone who requires accommodation or adjustments throughout the interview process to let us know, and we will do our best to support you.