Staff Engineer, SonderMind
Full Stack
$160-180k
In-person and online therapy platform
Job no longer available
In-person and online therapy platform
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$160-180k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To improve individuals' mental and behavioral health to create a happier and healthier world.
Role
Who you are
- You do not need to have experience training or developing ML models/algorithms, but experience with them is a plus
- 8+ years building web services or full-stack applications
- Strong hands-on experience in Ruby/Rails, TypeScript/Node, Python or similar backends
- Deep understanding of APIs, PostgreSQL, and some performance tuning
- Proven ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term technical investments and continuous improvement of quality
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment where requirements evolve over time
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
- Some knowledge of of AI/ML is desired but not a requirement
- Experience with LLMs or AI-driven toolchain (Langchain/Langgraph) is highly desirable
What the job involves
- As a Staff Engineer, you’ll own end-to-end features across one or more of our backend services, agentic frameworks, AI Pipelines and front end
- You’ll work under minimal supervision, troubleshoot complex problems, come up with innovative designs and optimizations and help shape our microservices architecture while collaborating closely with product, design, and QA
- You will work with high performance, mission critical tools and services
- Design, build, and maintain scalable Ruby/Rails, TypeScript/Node, and Python services and RESTful or gRPC APIs that integrate with agentic GenAI systems
- Optimize MongoDB and PostgreSQL queries and service performance
- Collaborate with cross-functional squads to define requirements and deliver features
- You will work on AI Agents, MCP servers and various other AI enabled tools and frameworks and so must be comfortable working with ambiguity and rapidly evolving technologies
- Identify and drive process, architecture, and toolchain improvements
- Mentor junior engineers (code reviews, pair-programming etc)
- Serve as a technical lead for complex projects, balancing scope, risk, and not compromising deliverable quality
- 30 days: Ship a backend feature and demo it to the team
- 60 days: Potentially lead a cross-team API enhancement or propose a performance or scaling or testability improvement
- 90 days: Lead a system-level architectural improvement or completely new deliverable (e.g., introduce a TypeScript microservice or refactor a critical service for scalability), 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
- We work to support our employees wherever they are in life
- We offer health, vision, dental, disability, and mental health coverage
- And beyond that, you're required to take at least three weeks of PTO each year!
Company HQ
Cherry Creek, Denver, CO
Leadership
Mark Frank
(CEO & Co-Founder)Co-founded SafeImageMD in 2012. Former Chairman on the Board of Directors for AfterOurs Urgent Care prior to co-founding SonderMind.
Shouvick Mukherjee
(CTO & Co-Founder)They have extensive experience in engineering and have held many VP roles in various companies, including Yahoo and Walmart eCommerce.
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