Staff Backend Engineer

Full Time, Remote - U.S.

We are a team of innovators, experts and business builders who have come together to develop advanced technologies that can transform healthcare. 

We’re focused on addressing the vast, unmet need for improved engagement and outcomes in mental health with Woebot, a digital coach that helps people engage more deeply and continuously in their mental health. Woebot's breakthrough is its ability to form a human-level bond with people using the latest in NLP, ML and other advanced technologies. Leveraging this therapeutic bond, and the expertise of our Stanford-trained clinicians and scientists, Woebot is constantly learning from the experience of more than one million people and hundreds of millions of messages exchanged to deliver high quality CBT-based therapeutic tools that are psychologically related and responsive to a person’s dynamic state of health.

Our work to advance human-centered technology has attracted a lot of attention. Today we’ve amassed more mentions in the scientific literature than any other digital therapeutic company, and are regularly featured as the architects of a radically new approach to mental health. But we’ve only just begun. With the backing of some of the world’s most forward thinking investors and a new round of funding complete, we’re poised to redefine how people access mental health care. 

Are you ready to create a new mental health future for everyone? Let's do it together!

Why You Should Join Our Engineering Team

You care about helping make quality mental health care realistically accessible to millions of people globally and are genuinely curious and proven at building complex scalable distributed systems. 

You have the unique opportunity to join us as a technical leader in our Therapeutic Product Group as we continue to improve the core bot, helping to delineate Woebot as a premium offering and a new standard in digital therapeutics. The Therapeutic Product Group’s mission is to build features that continue to improve Woebot’s clinical efficacy.

In the process, you’ll learn a huge amount about chatbot architecture, Serverless cloud deployments, agile software development and best in class development practices.

Who you are

To succeed in this role, you have a proven track record of technical leadership in one or more knowledge domains and of thriving in an environment that fosters collaboration while affording you the space and opportunity for independent thinking and project ownership. You are constantly looking to hone your craft and to share those learnings with your colleagues. You know how to strike a balance between delivering to a deadline and to product requirements, while at the same time maintaining the highest levels of quality. Most importantly, you are energized by the idea of learning more about evidence-based psychological interventions and how to translate them into digital products that improve the lives of millions of people.

How you’ll thrive

Ramping up

• In your first 4 weeks, you’ve read and digested our entire code base, have made several small enhancements and bug fixes, and have come up with a list of recommendations for improving our backend systems.

Become A Leader On The Engineering Team

• You are an expert in the architecture and design of distributed software systems, with particular emphasis on cloud-hosted serverless architectures.
• You propose novel solutions and approaches to technical challenges encountered by the Therapeutic Product Group.
• You help to define and curate the technical roadmap for the Therapeutic Product Group.
• You have a deep knowledge of Javascript (preferably TypeScript), Node.js and AWS cloud (or equivalent stack) and can enforce best practices while mentoring other engineers to become masters of their craft.
• You are responsible for creating new features and functionality in the core logic of our bot, and work directly with our product team to integrate their ideas into the system.

Improve Woebot Without Sacrificing Quality

• By day 45 you have helped deliver a new feature end-to-end, from understanding the solution design to coding to peer review to production launch and error monitoring.
• By day 60 you are translating user needs and requirements into technical solutions, helping write technical specifications, and contributing elegant code that turns needs into reality.

Create Systems That Help Us Scale

• By day 90 you have taken on the mantle of technical lead within one of the Therapeutic Product Group pods.
• You have developed a solid understanding of the