Director of Engineering, Talkiatry
Consumer Products
$220-240k
Offers bonus
Personalized mental healthcare provider
Posted today
Personalized mental healthcare provider
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$220-240k
Offers bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To transform psychiatry with accessible, human, and responsible care.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- 4+ years of engineering management experience, including experience managing managers or leading multiple teams
- A strong, current technical background—you can still get hands-on and are credible with your senior engineers on architecture and code
- Hands-on experience with React, TypeScript (bonus: Next.js), and AWS
- Enthusiasm for AI-assisted development and experience adopting tools like Claude Code across teams
- A track record of overseeing teams that consistently deliver business value with low defect rates and high reliability
- Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and the ability to scale your impact through delegation, written communication, and clear expectations
- Comfort with hard conversations—proactive about accountability and holding teams to a high performance bar
- Experience owning or partnering closely with QA and/or Product Support functions (bonus)
- Experience working in a HIPAA-compliant environment (bonus)
- Passion for creating exceptional patient experiences
What the job involves
- We're seeking an experienced Engineering Director to lead a critical slice of our practice and to raise the quality bar across our entire application engineering org
- You'll oversee two teams, with a third team likely added next year, that own the patient's core journey with us: our Growth team, responsible for the new-patient experience from initial outreach through the first appointment, and our Patient Portal team, responsible for all subsequent patient visits and touchpoints
- Beyond those two teams, you'll also own the QA and Product Support functions for all application teams—not just the ones reporting to you—making you a key partner to every other engineering leader in the org
- This is a role for someone who leads through managers but hasn't lost their hands-on edge
- As we lean into AI-assisted development with tools like Claude Code, we want a director who can get into the codebase alongside teams to both help evolve our development practices to take advantage of these new agentic tools, as well as lead non-blocking cross-cutting problems like observability and alerting, high-leverage migrations, and the kind of DevEx work that makes every team faster and safer
- You'll work alongside our other Engineering Directors to ensure high quality and high velocity across the whole organization
- Joining Talkiatry means joining a mission-driven team that is solving complex problems at scale, driving meaningful change in healthcare, and building the future of mental health care with compassion, innovation, and purpose
- Oversee the success of the Growth and Patient Portal teams—ensuring they have the right people, processes, and timelines, and holding them accountable to delivering company value with a low defect rate and high reliability
- Own the QA and Product Support functions across all application teams, setting standards and building processes that hold quality high
- Lead through your managers—coaching, training, and developing the next generation of engineering leaders and senior ICs
- Set and enforce a high technical quality bar across your teams, and stay close enough to the code to drive resolution of technical problems that span team boundaries
- Identify and resolve issues of unclear ownership and cross-team dependencies, and close documentation and process gaps across the broader engineering org
- Partner with product, design, and clinical teams to keep the patient experience seamless from first touch through their ongoing care
- Work alongside other Engineering Directors to drive consistent quality and velocity across the entire org
- Build a positive, thriving culture across your teams that strengthens our org-wide engineering culture
Our take
Awareness of the importance of mental health is growing worldwide, with many people seeking psychiatry to improve their mental wellness and quality of life. However, psychiatrist waiting lists and a "one size fits all" approach to mental health often prevent people from receiving the support that they need.
Talkiatry provides a personalized mental health marketplace, matching users with in-house psychiatrists based on preliminary assessment answers. Whilst the company inevitably faces competition from other online psychiatry marketplaces, Talkiatry shows the potential to stand out through its personalized, flexible, and insurance-first approach.
Healthtech is growing in strength, and with various partnerships and has substantial funding to its name. Notably, it claimed an oversubscribed Series D in 2026, positioning Talkiatry for future success and innovation in the evolving healthcare landscape.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Feb 2026
$210m
SERIES D
Jun 2024
$65m
SERIES C
Total funding: $408m
Company benefits
- Flexible location: Work remotely across the US or from our HQ in NYC
- Health insurance 100% covered on day one
- 401(k) match with match
- Generous PTO plus paid holidays
- Paid parental leave
Company HQ
Chelsea, New York, NY
Leadership
Robert Krayn
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as an Analyst for BNY Mellon from 2012 to 2013 and Guggenheim Partners from 2013 to 2014. Vice President of MidOcean Partners from 2014 to 2019.
Georgia Gaveras
(Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer)Previously the Director of the Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program at NYC Health + Hospitals. They were also an Attending Psychiatrist at Cohen Children's Medical Center and spent 10 years at Mount Sinai Health System as an Attending Psychiatrist and Director.
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