Staff Software Engineer

At LifeStance Health, we strive to help individuals, families, and communities with their mental health needs. Everywhere. Every day. It’s a lofty goal; we know. But we make it happen with the best team in mental healthcare.

Thank you for taking the time to explore a career with us. As the fastest growing mental health practice group in the country, now is the perfect time to join our team!

ROLE OVERVIEW

Seize a unique opportunity to work directly with the VP of Engineering on high-impact strategic initiatives. We are searching for a visionary staff engineer to design, architect, and build cutting-edge solutions that revolutionize patient and clinician experiences. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate with various technology platforms, including our own. This role demands a forward-thinking approach, leveraging analytics and scalability within a DevOps-centric culture to drive innovation and excellence.

COMPENSATION: $170,000 - 190,000/year

LOCATION: This position is fully remote and can be performed anywhere within the United States.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and develop scalable high-volume, low-latency applications cloud-ready systems for mission-critical systems, delivering high-availability and performance

• Create and refine best practices, coding standards, and documentation, and take the opportunity to share knowledge across the team

• Research new technologies or methodologies that can improve the architecture, user experience, or development process

• Specify technical solutions in clear and concise written documentation

• Provide technical leadership, ensuring engineers understand our strategy and vision

• Translate product requirements and technical designs into well-engineered, low-defect, robust code

• Regularly collaborate with other developers, QA, product owners, and designers to complete projects

• Participate and engage in all Scrum Ceremonies 

• Develop high-quality, working code features and bug fixes

• Participate in/lead regular code reviews, often in a mentorship role with other engineers to maintain high development standards

• Write automated tests, including comprehensive unit and integration tests

• Collaborate with team members on key architecture decisions

• Interface with team members to troubleshoot, debug, and fix issues in production and non-production environments

• Engage and mentor other members on the team

• Lead projects end-to-end as an individual contributor

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• 10+ years of experience developing software

• 5+ years of experience with database design (Relational, NoSql)

• 2+ years of experience with React/jQuery

• Designed, architected, and implemented a large scale highly available systems from the ground up

• Proven experience in functional programming languages such as Python, TypeScript, and/or Ruby

• Experience working in an Agile environment following SDLC

• Deep knowledge in leveraging cloud services: AWS, Google

• Scaling and deployment frameworks: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, VMs

• Deep understanding of API design and best practices

• Comprehensive understanding of quality assurance practices, including issue prevention techniques, risk management, and testing strategies

• Ability to lead projects across stacks and blended teams 

• Ability to collaborate with executive and leadership teams 

• Must be data driven, objective, and goal oriented

• Effectively communicate and understand project requirements

• Strong understanding of system performance and scaling

• Strong sense of ownership and ability to work cross functionally

• Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States

• LifeStance is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status

• Demonstrates awareness, inclusivity, sensitivity, humility, and experience in working with individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds, socioeconomic statuses, sexual orientations, gender identities, and other various aspects of culture

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LifeStance is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are fully committed to creating an inclusive work environment for all our employees.