Engineering Manager, Woebot Labs
AI-powered mental health support for clinical and enterprise settings
Job no longer available
AI-powered mental health support for clinical and enterprise settings
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To make mental health support radically accessible by building the future of chat-based AI wellness tools.
Role
Who you are
- For you to be successful in this role, you’ll have spent a good portion of your career working as an individual contributor, preferably in backend teams and are as a result highly technically skilled
- While it would be great if you’ve already been a people manager at some point in your career, we are willing to talk to candidates who may be less experienced in this area
- This is an exciting time for the company. If you have a proven track record of shipping high quality features whilst working in agile teams with empathy, then this might be your next career move!
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with at least 1 year as an engineering manager. Ideally, you will have worked for the majority of your career with consumer facing digital products
- Technical expertise
- You are an expert in the building of backend solutions, preferably Node.js
- You are highly familiar with cloud platform services, particularly AWS and GCP
- You have extensive experience of building and using CI/CD pipelines
- You are an advocate for the use of automated testing frameworks
- You are familiar with the Serverless framework
- People and project managerial expertise
- You are an excellent communicator
- You are enthusiastic about the training, motivating, and coaching of software engineers in your charge
- You are potentially new to people management - holding 1:1s, managing performance reviews, career development/coaching, motivation and conflict resolution. If you have gaps here, we will help you to fill them
- You are highly familiar with the Agile/Scrum project management methodology
What the job involves
- You will be the Engineering Manager for one of the Therapeutic Product Group pods
- The Therapeutic Product Group is a cross-disciplinary team made up of engineers, PMs, content writers and data analysts, whose role is to ship features that improve the clinical efficacy of the platform
- Your primary responsibility will be to manage the engineers working within this pod and to deliver technical leadership for the pod
- Your team of experienced engineers is distributed across the US and Europe. Your team knows the platform well and are highly familiar with our workflow and with getting features and products built efficiently and to specification
- You’ll be reporting directly to our VP of Engineering, Frank Lynam from whom you will also be inheriting this role
- You actually get to interview with Frank so you’ll get to learn firsthand what it entails
- You’ll also need to be an accomplished project manager and you will need to act as the people manager for your team
- While we don't expect you to master our platform, which is built on Node.js right away, you'll have ample resources to help you learn and get there, including your team, product colleagues, and other engineering leaders
- Within 1 month you will:
- Familiarize yourself with the Woebot SDLC and documentation workflows
- Learn how to successfully roll out a platform component release
- Immerse yourself in our knowledge base and proactively ask questions to bridge gaps in your understanding
- Have written and merged a couple of small PRs
- Have gained a deeper understanding of what motivates your team and discovered what drives your team's success
- Have set up weekly 1:1s with your direct reports and have started to get to know them
- Have started to developed a strong working relationship with your product manager
- Have met with the content writers, QEs and data analysts that you will be working with on a day to day basis
- Within 3 months you will:
- Be working on a daily basis with your product manager
- Be the primary PoC for your team for all inbound technical queries
- Be agile and able to react to changes in requirements as they happen
- Know a lot more about how the platform components work together and individually
- Offer data driven suggestions to engineering leadership on how to improve our SDLC process
- Review all technical documentation produced by your team
- Within 6 months you will:
- Be leading your team to produce two high quality features per quarter, each of which improves Woebot’s clinical potency
- Be leading a team that feels psychologically safe and content while being productive
- Be contributing to the writing of feature solution documentation based on product requirements. Even if you’re not writing the specs yourself, you need to be familiar with everything being worked on by the team
- Be a promoter of best practices across the engineering workflow spectrum, e.g. secure coding practices, experimentation, release strategy etc
- Have identified the strengths of your team and where it needs to be supplemented and are already translating this into actionable items including the sourcing of new team members
- Within Year 1 you will:
- Have made our feature creation and deployment workflow simpler and more efficient
- Have added a number of clinical efficacy features that are tested by internal product studies
- Have an onboarding programme that sees new senior engineers able to lead feature developments within 3 months of coming on board
- Be data driven and be able to report objectively on your team’s meeting of company objectives
- Key Responsibilities
- You are the engineering manager for a Therapeutic Product Group pod tasked with improving the potency of Woebot
- You are the people manager for the engineers in this pod. You ensure that your team is happy and productive in their work
- You collaborate on a daily basis with your product manager who is based on the West Coast of the US
- You ensure features are built on time and to specification by your team
- You collaborate with the content writers, data analysts, security, data privacy reps and QEs working within the same scrum team
- You use parallel SDLC processes to cater for projects of different risk profiles
- You work with your partners in engineering leadership on inter-team objectives
Our take
Millions of people are struggling with their mental health, but there simply isn't enough therapist to go around. Woebot is tackling this gap by rethinking how mental health support is delivered, using technology to make care more accessible for all.
The company partners with health systems, employers, and researchers to bring its AI-powered mental health tools into clinical care and benefits programs. Its flagship therapeutic solutions - currently in development for postpartum depression - has been granted FDA Breakthrough Device status. Alongside this, the company has backing from major investors and nods from Fast Company, the World Economic Forum, and others, giving it some serious credibility in the world of digital therapeutics.
The company initial focus was a D2C AI chatbot app but as of June 2025, it's no longer available. The company decided to strategically pivot to focus on partnerships with clinically validated tools, aiming for a bigger, more sustainable impact. The bot that once helped users through tough days is still around, just working in new ways, in more places, and with some serious science backing.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2022
$9.5m
LATE VC
Jul 2021
$90m
SERIES B
Total funding: $123.3m
Company benefits
- Health & wellness: We offer highly competitive health packages—including healthcare, dental & optical, to both you and your dependents. Because we want you happy and healthy
- Flexible time off: You’re the best judge of when you need time off. So take it when you need it
- Learning & development: We want to help build your future—so we set aside a yearly stipend to support your learning interests and professional goals, whether it’s coding, writing or attending conferences
- Parental leave: Woebot Health is a place for all kinds of families, so we provide generous parental leave for all kinds of parents
- Equity for all: Your success is our success, which is why we are proud to offer stock options to all employees joining our ranks
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Alison Darcy
(Founder & CEO)A Psychologist and healthcare designer with over 20 years experience building health tech. Gained her PhD at Stanford University School of Medicine, before working as a Senior Investigator and returning to Stanford as an Instructor.
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