Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Modern Health is a mental health benefits platform that provides employers and members with access to personalized mental health care and well-being resources. The Staff Software Engineer will lead full-stack growth engineering initiatives, building scalable systems for eligibility, identity, access, client configuration, and reporting while partnering cross-functionally and mentoring engineers.
Responsibilities
- Truly full stack product development with a slight lean towards the backend
- Build and maintain GraphQL APIs powered by Python services (Django, Flask)
- Implement web and mobile user experiences using React & React Native
- Engineer efficient and reusable systems that drive complex web and mobile applications
- Maintain HIPAA and GDPR compliance and general security through best practice implementation
- Independently write and execute technical plans (tech specs/RFCs) for large, ambiguous, cross-domain projects, negotiating scope with product along the way
- Lead ambiguous or large projects, working collaboratively with design, product, cross-functional partners, and other engineers to deliver a cohesive adaptive care experience
- Serve as the directly responsible individual from engineering on roadmap commitments, owning launch timelines, decomposing work, and coordinating dependencies across teams
- Write and maintain technical documentation, unit tests, and integration tests
- Be a thought leader in strategic engineering and tech initiatives, and contribute to cross-team engineering forums
- Lead and contribute to cross-team engineering forums and on cross-team engineering projects
- Mentor other engineers to scale your impact both on Care Journey and across the engineering department
- Provide compassionate and impactful reviews of technical project plans and code
- Participate in on-call, driving investigation, remediation, and process improvements from recurring issues
- Immigration sponsorship is not available for this position. Applicants must be able to maintain work authorization for the duration of employment without employer sponsorship or employer-provided training plans or attestations (including, for example, the Form I-983 required for STEM OPT)
Skills
- 8+ years of relevant software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages
- At least 2+ years of production experience in full-stack web development, including Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, React Native, and React
- Deep familiarity with our tech stack (or a directly comparable one) strongly preferred; expect to start meaningfully contributing within your first 30 days
- Demonstrated high ownership: you independently decompose very ambiguous problems into component parts, propose technically elegant strategies, and can estimate and deliver against them with confidence
- A track record of writing technical plans (tech specs/RFCs) that hold up under cross-functional scrutiny, and driving solutioning for initiatives that span multiple domains or teams
- Experience building and maintaining GraphQL and/or REST APIs
- Experience scaling relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and writing performant queries
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally and be trusted as a technical partner by product, design, and other engineering teams, including navigating disagreement and bringing people along on a technical direction
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable driving alignment with stakeholders outside your immediate team
- Experience mentoring and effectively working with a distributed development team
- Experience leading and architecting large-scale projects as a technical thought leader
- Passion for building something to improve the lives of others
- Immigration sponsorship is not available for this position. Applicants must be able to maintain work authorization for the duration of employment without employer sponsorship or employer-provided training plans or attestations (including, for example, the Form I-983 required for STEM OPT)
- This position is not eligible to be performed in Hawaii
- Immigration sponsorship is not available for this position. Applicants must be able to maintain work authorization for the duration of employment without employer sponsorship or employer-provided training plans or attestations (including, for example, the Form I-983 required for STEM OPT)
- Authorization protocols such as SSO SAML, OIDC, JWT
- AI/LLM-powered product features (e.g., recommendation systems, conversational or agentic experiences)
- Experience with maturely leveraging AI in your development lifecycle to improve quality and speed for yourself and other engineers
- Experience with SQL, bash, or other scripting languages to facilitate debugging or developer-experience contributions
- Working with AWS or other cloud platforms
- Working at a high-growth startup
- Working in Health Tech or HR
Benefits
- Medical / Dental / Vision / Disability / Life Insurance
- High Deductible Health Plan with Health Savings Account (HSA) option
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Access to coaches and therapists through Modern Health's platform
- Flexible Time Off
- Company-wide Collective Pause Days
- Parental Leave Policy
- Family Forming Benefit through Carrot
- Family Assistance Benefit through UrbanSitter
- Professional Development Stipend
- 401k
- Financial Planning Benefit through Origin
- Annual Wellness Stipend to use on items that promote your overall well being
- New Hire Stipend to help cover work-from-home setup costs
- ModSquad Community: Virtual events like active ERGs, holiday themed activities, team-building events and more
- Monthly Cell Phone Reimbursement
- Modern Health's equity program
- Fully remote workforce
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