Senior Frontend Engineer

About the Company

Octave’s mission is to create a new standard for mental healthcare delivery, one that is accessible to more people and sustainable for providers. We are broadening access to high quality mental health services that are measurement-based and insurance funded. Now more than ever, we are looking to serve communities dealing with the rising public health challenge of addressing mental health needs. Octave is VC-backed and was founded in 2018 with footprints in New York and California, as well as virtually nationwide. We are expanding our beautiful practices throughout New York and California, offering telehealth and also clinic-based services.

About the Role

Octave is looking for a software engineer with 5+ years of frontend experience in a product development setting to join our Client Experience team. The ideal candidate for this role is a growth-minded team player with the proven ability to offer technical leadership when/where needed.

We are a small but growing team who work remotely using React, TypeScript, GraphQL and CSS to bring everything together

Duties/Responsibilities: 

• Lead the development of highly responsive user interfaces
• Partner closely with product managers and UX designers to translate business requirements and designs into functional code
• Architect and design scalable frontend solutions, ensuring code modularity, reusability, and maintainability
• Drive performance optimization efforts, delivering fast-loading and high-performing web applications
• Collaborate with team members to drive innovation and continuous improvement
• Mentor and guide more junior engineers, providing technical expertise and fostering their professional growth
• Participate in code reviews, hold the bar for coding standards, and promote best practices to maintain a high-quality codebase
• Conduct thorough testing and debugging of applications, ensuring a bug-free user experience
• Establish and maintain technical documentation for frontend components and systems
• Collaborate with project stakeholders to ensure timely and successful project delivery
• Demonstrate a strong commitment to learning and growing

Required Skills

• Writing high-quality frontend code with automated testing and leaving the code base better than you found it
• Experience with continuous delivery and troubleshooting production code
• Comfortable communicating with engineers, clinical, and operations staff to solve open-ended problems
• Interest in doing mission-oriented work especially in the healthcare space
• Must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship now or anytime in the future

Education & Experience

• 5+ years of frontend experience building web applications

• Strong experience in developing and deploying modern web applications with React
• Experience with GraphQL
• Experience working with Product Managers, leading projects and mentoring engineers
• (nice to have) Experience working with healthcare, healthcare technology, and clinical staff, or other regulated industries

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer. 
• Must be able to frequently communicate with others through virtual meeting applications such as Zoom and Google Meet. 
• Must be able to observe and communicate  information on company provided laptop. 
• Move up to 10 pounds on occasion. 

Compensation:

Octave is committed to pay equity. To maintain our commitment to pay equity, Octave will follow Pay Transparency regulations on all open job postings.  Current Pay Transparency laws require companies to include a position's salary or hourly wage range (not including bonuses or equity-based compensation) in any internal or external job posting. This requirement extends to job postings published by a third party at an employer's request.

Octave will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with Octave’s legal duty to furnish information.

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