Senior Backend Software Engineer, Grow Therapy
$182-250k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Online therapy platform
Job no longer available
Online therapy platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$182-250k
+ Equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To fundamentally transform mental healthcare accessibility.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for an engineer who takes pride in writing clean, well-tested code, thinks carefully about system design and data integrity, and is energized by the opportunity to grow alongside a fast-moving team
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with meaningful ownership of production backend systems
- Deep backend engineering expertise, including service design, data modeling, and API development at scale
- Experience building and operating systems where reliability, data quality, and performance are critical
- Proven ability to operate in ambiguous problem spaces and drive clarity across technical and cross-functional stakeholders
- A highly data-driven mindset, comfortable with experimentation, measurement, and optimization from both product and technical perspectives
- A product-minded approach — you understand how technical decisions impact user experience and business outcomes
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with a track record of influencing cross-functional partners including Product, Design, and Data Science
- Experience using AI-assisted dev tools (e.g., Cursor, GitHub Copilot)
- A bias toward ownership, speed, learning, and continuous improvement
- Research shows that some groups hesitate to apply unless they meet every qualification. If you’re excited about this role but don’t check every box, we encourage you to apply. At Grow, we value diverse experiences, transferable skills, and the unique strengths each person brings
What the job involves
- We're hiring a Software Engineer to help build and evolve the backend systems that power Grow Therapy's platform
- In this role, you'll design, implement, and ship server-side features and services that directly impact how clients and providers connect, communicate, and access care
- You'll join a collaborative, product-focused engineering organization where technical work is closely tied to reliability, scalability, and real-world outcomes
- Own backend services and APIs end to end — from technical design through implementation, deployment, and ongoing reliability
- Drive architectural decisions within your team, bringing structure and clarity to complex, ambiguous problem spaces
- Lead improvements to core platform systems, including data pipelines, service reliability, and business logic
- Design and enable safe, repeatable experimentation through robust A/B testing and analysis workflows
- Diagnose and resolve data quality, performance, and correctness issues across systems
- Write clean, well-tested, maintainable production code and set a high bar through code reviews and technical mentorship
- Partner closely with Product, Design, and Data to translate goals into technical designs and execution plans
- Shape the technical direction of your team and contribute meaningfully to cross-team architectural discussions
Our take
Mental health issues affect about 20% of Americans, so there’s an immense need for qualified mental healthcare in the US. However the vast majority of therapists don’t accept insurance due to the prohibitive administrative workload involved. This leaves therapy out of reach for many Americans. So it’s no surprise that the Grow Therapy platform has seen skyrocketing popularity since it was founded in 2020.
Grow Therapy helps therapists open their own in-network practices, providing the technology, support, and resources to tackle the extra operational workload that would allow them to take insurance. It’s live across a number of states, and works in partnership with all the major insurance payers including Humana, Aetna and Cigna.
The company is competing with larger rivals like Alma and Quartet Health, but this should be a big enough market for several major participants. Grow has secured good funding that supported the launch of its enhanced measurement-informed care system, which will help improve the care experience for clients and providers and make value-based behavioral care accessible for more patients.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
208% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2026
$150m
SERIES D
Apr 2024
$88m
SERIES C
Total funding: $298m
Company benefits
- Mental health breaks: Two hours every week to journal, exercise, or sleep in.
- Work-life balance: Unlimited PTO and a week off in December to recharge.
- Remote office setup: $1,000 stipend for remote employees to equip your home office.
- Learning stipend: $500 to spend on things that helps you grow in your career
- Wellness stipend: $300 to spend on things that help you take care of yourself.
- Meals on us: Lunch and dinner in office to fuel your body and your mind.
Company HQ
Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
Jake Cooper
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously CFO at Campus Enterprises, before moving into Investment at Apollo Global Management and then Blackstone.
Alan Ni
(Co-Founder & CTO)Worked as a Product Manager at Google, HVF Labs, and then Stripe.
Manoj Kanagaraj
(Co-Founder & CSO)Previously a Venture Fellow at Harvard Innovation Labs (Harvard University).
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