Alma is on a mission to simplify access to high-quality, affordable mental health care. We do this by making it easy and financially rewarding for therapists to accept insurance and offer in-network care. When a provider joins Alma, they gain access to a suite of tools that not only help them better run their business, but also grow it sustainably and develop as a provider. Alma is available in all 50 states, with over 20,000 therapists in our growing network. Anyone looking for a therapist can browse Alma’s free directory. Alma has raised $220.5M in funding from Insight Partners, Optum Ventures, Tusk Venture Partners, Primary Venture Partners, First Round Capital, Sound Ventures, BoxGroup, Cigna Ventures, and Rainfall Ventures. Alma was also named one of Inc’s Best Workplaces in 2022 and 2023.
Senior Full Stack Engineer
Alma is looking for a mission-driven Full Stack Engineer with experience working across the entire stack, while leaning towards a strong focus on backend development, to our join team.In this role, you will be building features that solve real problems for mental health providers and clients seeking care. The ideal candidate is able to recognize that successful software development requires communication, experimentation, and iteration.
On this team, you will have a strong hand in defining Alma's features, services, and architecture. The ideal person for this role loves to collaborate, has a foundation in backend engineering but is still comfortable leading complex frontend initiatives and leverages this skill set to build amazing digital experiences. Ideally this candidate is able to bridge the connection of the frontend and the backend.
What you’ll do:- Gain a deep understanding of what Alma clients do, how they operate, and where their pain points are.
- Work across the stack and support complex initiatives in both the front and backend based on team need
- Design, develop, and implement maintainable and scalable product features using modern web technologies (React, Typescript, Python, Django, MySQL).
- Improve how our clients find care through search for care, how we rank our search results, our guided quiz experience, consultations, and how clients manage communications with prospective providers.
- Build features to help providers market themselves and attract new clients. This includes support for updating/editing profiles, managing consultation requests, notifications, and scheduling features.
- Collaborate with Alma PMs, product marketers, data scientists, and designers to test, conceptualize and build solutions
- Ensure applications and services meet Alma's standards for software including performance, scalability, and security.
- You have 4-6 years of experience as an engineer with a proven history of working across the stack and building products at scale.
- You have extensive experience with web technologies. We are language agnostic in our interviews but require experience with one or more common web frameworks.
- You've got an understanding of accessibility and security compliance.
- You've got an understanding of observability and monitoring best practices.
- You have implemented automated testing platforms and unit tests.
- You possess a proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
- You enjoy customer-centered software development and collaborating closely with a team of engineers, designers, and product managers.
- You have a desire to experiment (succeed or fail), iterate, and make data-driven decisions.
- You have experience working with junior engineers and providing mentorship to them as they work to improve/uplevel their skills
- You have experience leading medium to large size projects, including problem architecture/solutioning, breaking work into actionable tasks, and tracking progress to code completion delivery
- You understand how to accurately communicate expectations with stakeholders
- You are someone who champions best practices, challenges the status quo, brings fresh perspectives, and is proactive in shaping how things should be built to meet evolving needs.
Benefits:
- We’re a remote-first company
- Health insurance plans through Aetna (medical and dental) and MetLife (vision), including FSA and HSA plans
- 401K plan (ADP)
- Monthly therapy and wellness stipends
- Monthly co-working space membership stipend
- Monthly work-from-home stipend
- Financial wellness benefits through Northstar
- Pet discount program through United Pet Care
- Financial perks and rewards through BenefitHub
- EAP access through Aetna
- One-time home office stipend to set up your home office
- Comprehensive parental leave plans
- 11 paid holidays, 1 Alma Mental Health Day, and 1 Alma Volunteering Day
- Flexible PTO
Salary Band: $150,200 - $214,400
Alma’s compensation philosophy is driven by our company value of building equity. To best ensure pay equity, we typically bring in new hires near the middle of our listed salary bands. The recruiter you work with can provide more details on our philosophy.
All Alma jobs are listed on our careers page. We do not use outside applications or automated text messaging in our recruiting process. We will not ask for any sensitive financial or identification information throughout the recruiting process. Any communication during the recruitment process, including interview requests or job offers, will come directly from a recruiting team member with a helloalma.com email address.
Learn more about how Alma handles applicant data by reading Alma's Applicant Privacy Notice.
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