Staff Full Stack AI Engineer, SonderMind
$160-180k
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In-person and online therapy platform
Job no longer available
In-person and online therapy platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$160-180k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To improve mental health care – through easier access, use of individualized care, and life-changing outcomes.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years building web services or full-stack applications, with 3+ years focused on AI/ML systems
- Strong hands-on experience in Ruby on Rails or TypeScript/Node backends that support AI workloads
- Solid Angular/TypeScript front-end skills for building AI-driven user experiences
- Deep understanding of REST, PostgreSQL, and performance tuning for AI applications
- Proven experience with LangChain, LangGraph, and LangSmith for agent development and evaluation
- Strong background in prompt engineering, LLM integration, and AI system architecture
- Proven ability to balance short-term AI feature delivery with long-term technical investments
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment where AI requirements and capabilities evolve rapidly
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
- Nice-to-have: Experience with vector databases, RAG systems, or fine-tuning language models
What the job involves
- As a Staff AI Engineer, you'll own end-to-end AI enabled features and systems, building backend services (TypeScript/Node or RoR) and Angular/TypeScript front-ends that support AI capabilities within our Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) platform
- You'll architect and build intelligent agents using LangChain and LangGraph to create agentic workflows that streamline revenue operations processes and reduce manual burden on our support teams
- You'll design comprehensive evaluation frameworks with LangSmith, lead prompt engineering initiatives, and work under minimal supervision to help shape our AI strategy and infrastructure, driving the evolution of our core monolith and emerging TS microservices to support advanced AI capabilities, while collaborating closely with product, design, and QA
- Design, build, and maintain scalable Rails or TypeScript/Node services and RESTful APIs that power AI features
- Implement and extend Angular/TypeScript UI components for AI-driven web experiences
- Architect and develop intelligent agents using LangChain and LangGraph frameworks
- Design and implement comprehensive evaluation systems with LangSmith for AI performance monitoring
- Lead prompt engineering initiatives and establish best practices across the team
- Optimize PostgreSQL queries and service performance for AI workloads
- Collaborate with cross-functional squads to define AI product requirements and deliver features
- Identify and drive improvements to AI infrastructure, architecture, and development processes
- Mentor engineers on AI development practices through code reviews and pair-programming
- Serve as technical lead on complex AI projects, balancing scope, risk, and engineering quality while defining long-term AI strategy
- 30 days: Ship an AI-powered feature end-to-end using LangChain/LangGraph and demo it to the team, including both backend integration and frontend UI
- 60 days: Lead a cross-team AI system enhancement and establish evaluation frameworks with LangSmith for measuring AI performance and quality
- 90 days: Lead a system-level AI architecture improvement (e.g., introduce an intelligent agent microservice or refactor existing services to support advanced AI workflows), including a clear design, implementation, and rollout plan in place or executed against
Application process
- This position will be an ongoing recruitment process and will be open until filled
Our take
Demand for mental health services in the U.S. is soaring, yet therapeutic services are generally expensive, uniform, and hard to access for the majority of people. This is mainly due to the fact that most mental health practitioners don't accept insurance or work within a healthcare infrastructure.
SonderMind tackles the shortage of accessible mental health services by providing a digital network that matches the specific needs of patients with mental health specialists. What's more, the patient’s insurance coverage network is considered when determining a match, allowing users to find personalized therapeutic services that fit within their budget.
In addition to its therapy recommendation service, Sondermind also provides tools for therapy booking, organization, and billing. Ultimately, the startup has taken an interesting stance within the therapy landscape by focusing on providing personalized and easy-to-use booking services that are flexible within different budgets and insurance plans.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2021
$150m
SERIES C
Apr 2020
$27m
SERIES B
Total funding: $183.2m
Company benefits
- Flexible work: Most SonderMind positions are fully-remote and can work from most states. We also have a Denver-based headquarters for those craving in-office options.
- Whole-person wellness: Access SonderMind care or get up to 100% coverage on mental health support. Plus, competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage, including and HSA plans with a $1,100 match and FSAs.
- Required vacation time: Yes, you read that right. Our flexible PTO requires each employee to take a minimum of 3 weeks off each year, plus additional paid company holidays.
- Retirement and more: All employees receive a 401K retirement plan with a 100% company match on up to 4% of their base salary. Plus, discounts on pet insurance plans, and more.
- Plan for the unexpected: With employer-paid life insurance, short-and-long-term disability, and AD&D, we also cover the difference in salary for up to 8 weeks of short-term disability leave.
- Family leave: We offer eight weeks of paid parental leave to any new parent. And, if the parent also qualifies for short-term disability (which can be up to 8 weeks), this benefit is additional.
Company HQ
Capitol Hill, Denver, CO
Leadership
Mark Frank
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded SafeImageMD in 2012. Former Chairman on the Board of Directors for AfterOurs Urgent Care prior to co-founding SonderMind.
Shouvick Mukherjee
(Co-Founder & CTO)They have extensive experience in engineering and have held many VP roles in various companies, including Yahoo and Walmart eCommerce.
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