Staff Software Engineer, Grow Therapy
Marketplace
$217-288k
+ Equity
More information about location
Online therapy platform
Open for applications
Online therapy platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$217-288k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To fundamentally transform mental healthcare accessibility.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years leading teams or technical initiatives
- At least 2 years building backend systems at scale, ideally in high-throughput or marketplace environments
- Experience with P2P or multi-sided marketplaces (matching, ranking, pricing, fraud, fulfillment, or similar domains)
- Demonstrated strength in product engineering, deeply understanding user needs and shaping delightful, high-quality experiences
- Strong architectural and technical sense - able to define a vision, influence direction, and drive execution
- Proven ability to deliver complex, ambiguous projects that span multiple teams and stakeholders
- Highly data-driven mindset, comfortable with experimentation, measurement, and optimization
- Exceptional communication and cross-functional leadership, including influencing non-technical stakeholders
- A track record of multiplying talent, mentoring engineers, and creating high-performance environments
- Founder’s mindset - ownership, speed, scrappiness, resilience, bias toward action
- Clear frameworks and philosophies for technical leadership, force multiplication, and scalable execution
- 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 looking for a highly product-driven, execution-oriented Staff Backend Engineer to define and own the technical vision for our marketplace and provider experience systems
- As a senior leader on the Match Success team, you’ll build the backend systems, workflows, and intelligence that enable clients and providers to connect seamlessly and form long-lasting care relationships
- You’ll architect and deliver the next generation of marketplace matching - leveraging personalization, semantic search, applied AI, and scalable service design
- This role operates at the intersection of product, engineering, provider success, and quality
- You will bring clarity to ambiguity, drive technical strategy, and scale a high-performance engineering culture with a founder’s mindset
- This is a rare opportunity to help build the “Uber/Airbnb of healthcare” and create the marketplace that makes care accessible at national scale
- Match Success is responsible for helping clients find the right provider and build long-term therapeutic relationships
- Your work will directly shape how care is delivered and accessed nationwide
- We’re building a highly scalable, intelligent marketplace platform that will power the future of healthcare access by removing friction, improving personalization, and enabling millions of people to receive the care they deserve
- If you want to build transformative technology that will impact the next decade of healthcare, and enjoy working at the intersection of product, AI, and complex systems, this role is for you
- Define and own the long-term technical vision for core Marketplace, Scheduling, Booking, and Provider Operations systems
- Architect scalable backend systems that support high-volume matching, transactions, availability management, and operational workflows
- Design and evolve matching, search, and personalization capabilities, including semantic search, recommendation systems, and applied AI patterns
- Continually improve key marketplace flows such as appointment management, provider discovery, cancellation handling, and practice setup
- Develop operational frameworks for planning, prioritization, incident management, and delivery excellence
- Use data deeply by instrumenting systems, measuring impact, and optimize marketplace performance and provider-client matching success
- Lead and mentor a high-performance engineering team, raising the bar for technical execution, communication, and problem-solving
- Create documentation, playbooks, and architectural guardrails to ensure consistency, quality, and efficiency across the engineering lifecycle
- Advocate for both client and provider experience needs, translating insights into technical investments and roadmap priorities
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 3 rounds)
Apr 2024
$88m
SERIES C
Sep 2022
$45m
SERIES B
Total funding: $148m
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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