Senior Backend Software Engineer, Mantra Health
$150-170k
+ Stock Options
Digital mental healthcare clinic for students
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Digital mental healthcare clinic for students
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$150-170k
+ Stock Options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To improve young peoples' mental healthcare access through clinical services, software, and design.
Role
Who you are
- Expert Backend Engineer: Bring 5-8+ years of experience designing, building, and scaling robust backend systems, demonstrating deep expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and modern API standards (GraphQL/REST)
- Scalable System Architect: Possess a proven ability to architect complex, reliable systems from concept to deployment, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and security compliance (HIPAA/FERPA)
- DevOps & Infrastructure Owner: Exhibit strong ownership ("One Car, Many Drivers") through hands-on experience building/maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI) and managing cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), championing automation and reliability
- Proactive Problem Solver & Quality Advocate: Thrive on tackling complex challenges, delivering high-quality, well-tested solutions, and proactively identifying opportunities for system improvement and refactoring in a fast-paced environment
- Collaborative Mentor & Communicator: Excel at working cross-functionally, clearly communicating technical ideas, and actively mentoring peers and junior engineers to foster a culture of growth and shared knowledge
- Mission-Driven & Adaptable: Deeply aligned with Mantra's mission to improve student mental health, bringing positive energy, embracing a growth mindset, and adapting readily within a dynamic startup culture
- Data-Oriented Developer (Bonus): Demonstrate proficiency or a strong interest in building data pipelines, managing ELT workflows, and applying analytics or ML techniques to derive insights
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Software Engineer III (Backend) to help lead development on our backend systems as we grow
- This role is a unique blend of hands-on execution and strategic technical contribution, touching every aspect of our core university mental health platform as well as the development of our new products
- You will be responsible for ensuring the stability, scalability, and security (including HIPAA/FERPA compliance) of our backend infrastructure, directly contributing to our ability to serve more students and make a greater impact on their lives
- As a student mental-health driven edtech startup, our workforce spans teams from engineering, product, design, operations and clinical, requiring a proactive engineer who can navigate complexity and collaborate effectively within a highly diverse and distributed team
- This position offers unique opportunities including significant ownership of backend systems, mentoring less-tenured engineers, architecting solutions for high-impact strategic projects, and exposure to our dynamic startup environment
- Own Backend System Development: Design, develop, optimize, and maintain significant portions of our core backend systems using Typescript, Express.js, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL with TypeORM
- Architect and build scalable solutions supporting critical business functions
- Ensure System Health & Compliance: Guarantee system stability, scalability, and security, ensuring compliance with HIPAA and FERPA regulations through robust design and implementation
- Drive DevOps & Infrastructure Excellence: Build, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI), implement infrastructure-as-code practices (AWS preferred), and monitor system performance and reliability
- Develop New Products & Features: Play a key role in developing our new products, designing and maintaining APIs (GraphQL/REST) and potentially contributing to data pipeline or machine learning initiatives
- Champion Engineering Best Practices: Deliver high-quality, well-tested code (unit, integration, E2E), actively participate in code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and foster a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with product, design, clinical, and operations teams to translate requirements into effective technical solutions, demonstrating strong ownership ("One Car, Many Drivers")
Our take
The United States is in the midst of a pressing mental health crisis, affecting a vast number of college students nationwide. The repercussions of students not receiving the necessary support are dire, often resulting in academic dropouts or even severe crises.
Mantra Health has stepped in to provide a digital mental health counseling platform aimed at college and university students in the US. It operates as a kind of bridge between college counseling services and mental health professionals. Acting as a supplement for counseling offices rather than a replacement, it has helped gain customers from a whole host of reputable universities including Penn State and MIT.
With a fresh injection of substantial funding, Mantra Health is gearing up to expand its workforce and forge partnerships with more insurance providers. These strategic moves aim to alleviate the financial burden currently shouldered by universities and further enhance the accessibility of mental health support for students
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2023
$5m
SERIES A
Jan 2022
$22m
SERIES A
Total funding: $35.4m
Company benefits
- Equity
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage for employees, spouses, and dependents
- 401k
- Flexible work location (work from the Bahamas for a few weeks? Cool by us)
- Unlimited PTO
- Inclusive parental leave, equal for all parents
- $1,000 new-parent mental wellness benefit
- Commuter card, if you commute
- Access to One Medical
- Healthcare & Dependent Care FSA
- Free access to remote & in-person wellness classes via our co-working space
Company HQ
Rose Hill, New York, NY
Leadership
Ed Gaussen
(Co-Founder)Prior to co-founding Mantra Health, was Chief Growth Officer at Tinder, Board Observer at democratized cryptocurrency brokerage Safello, as well as an Analyst and Associate at VC White Star Capital.
Ravi N. Shah, MD, MBA
(Co-Founder)Chief Innovation Officer, Department of Psychiatry, at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Clinical Advisor at online alcoholism treatment platform Tempest, and mental healthtech startup Two Chairs.
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