Full-Stack Staff Engineer, SonderMind
$150-175k
In-person and online therapy platform
Open for applications
In-person and online therapy platform
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$150-175k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To improve individuals' mental and behavioral health to create a happier and healthier world.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years building web services or full-stack applications
- Strong hands-on experience in Ruby on Rails or TypeScript/Node back ends
- Solid Angular/TypeScript front-end skills
- Deep understanding of REST, PostgreSQL, and performance tuning
- Proven ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term technical investments
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment where requirements evolve
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
- Nice-to-have: Experience integrating LLMs or AI-driven features
What the job involves
- As a Staff Engineer, you’ll own end-to-end features across our backend services (Ruby on Rails or TypeScript/Node) and our Angular/TypeScript front end
- You’ll work under minimal supervision, troubleshoot complex problems, and help shape our core monolith and emerging TS microservices while collaborating closely with product, design, and QA
- Design, build, and maintain scalable Rails or TypeScript/Node services and RESTful APIs
- Implement and extend Angular/TypeScript UI components for web experiences
- Optimize PostgreSQL queries and service performance
- Collaborate with cross-functional squads to define requirements and deliver features
- Identify and drive process, architecture, and toolchain improvements
- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and pair-programming
- Serve as a technical lead on complex projects, balancing scope, risk, and engineering quality
- 30 days: Ship a backend feature (Rails or TS) end-to-end and demo it to the team
- 60 days: Lead a cross-team API enhancement and propose a performance refactor
- 90 days: Lead a system-level architectural improvement (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
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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