Senior Full Stack Engineer

About InStride Health

InStride Health specializes in treating young patients whose anxiety or OCD is causing significant impairment in life. The dedicated care team of psychiatrists, therapists, and exposure coaches guides patients as they face their fears in the real world, using everyday tools like text, phones, and video chat to stay connected in real-world situations. InStride communicates with the patient’s support system, including the pediatrician, school resources, and family, to identify effective ways to provide support and create a community of care.

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced full stack engineer to help build workflows and integrations to better support our clinical staff and the patients and families that enroll with InStride. This is a fully remote position.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop software systems that delight our end users (adolescent patients and their families as well as InStride clinical staff).
• Build maintainable, scalable systems, that are thoroughly tested, documented, and have proper metrics and monitoring.
• Work closely with our internal product and design teams to help clarify stories and translate business needs into practical technology solutions.
• Research and leverage commercial products, libraries, and tools that can be used to meet business and technical requirements.
• Provide constructive and honest feedback so we can continuously improve.
• Work with our support team to diagnose production issues and fix them as quickly as possible.
• Mentor less-experienced engineers, review code, and teach the engineering group better practices.
• Be an active, creative, agile team member that pushes new features and code every iteration.
• Build and manage integrations between InStride and 3rd party systems.

Tech Stack

• Golang
• React/Typescript
• AWS cloud infrastructure

What You Need to Succeed in the Role

• 5+ years of experience writing and deploying advanced web applications and services into staging and production environments.
• Experience working in Healthcare Technologies is a plus.
• Strong communication skills.
• You understand when it’s better to write a comment vs. self-documenting code.
• You find defects and architectural problems when reviewing code.
• You can write systems that will scale beyond today’s expected usage.
• Ability communicate technical information in a straightforward, easy to understand way.
• Proficiency in debugging production issues.
• A strong understanding of APIs, webhooks, and other popular integration methods.
• Ability to work on a team of engineers, providing and receiving feedback in structured Pull Requests.
• Comfortable working at a startup which moves fast with tight deadlines.
• You collaborate well with others and are dedicated to the company’s success.
• Frequently share your opinions and provide thoughtful feedback.
• You have a solid understanding of how to prioritize projects and make tradeoffs between nice-to-haves and must-haves.
• You are comfortable learning on the job and working with unfamiliar tools.
• Familiarity with our tech stack is a plus.

Why Join Our Team

• Generous benefits package (401k with match, Flexible PTO, paid holidays, 4 week paid sabbatical, 12 week paid parental leave, health benefits starting on your first day, and more).
• Opportunity to join a mission-driven company that is changing the landscape of pediatric mental health treatment.
• Ability to help hundreds of children and families access desperately-needed evidence-based care.
• Opportunity to work with talented and experienced team members who have devoted their lives to solving this problem.
• Fully virtual: work from the comfort of your home with periodic in-person retreats.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging

One of the core values we are passionate about in InStride is building an inclusive and equitable environment where we celebrate all identities. We strongly believe that every member on our team enriches our InStride family; the individual voices help us provide better care for families. Therefore, we invite you to share any additional information about yourself or your experiences that may not be reflected in your CV. Inclusion of this information is completely voluntary.