Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Big Health, San Francisco

Good mental health without pills or potions

At Big Health, our purpose is to help millions back to good mental health. Our “digital therapeutics” - Daylight™, for worry & anxiety, and Sleepio™, for poor sleep - are fully automated cognitive and behavioral programs that are as scalable and clinically validated as drugs. Our software combines the intimacy of the human voice, engaging animation, and clinically rigorous techniques to help people overcome their mental health challenges. Big Health’s products are backed by 50 published clinical papers including 13 randomised controlled trials (RCTs), and are cited in leading clinical guidelines including the American College of Physicians and NICE. Today, over 12 million people worldwide have reimbursed access to Big Health’s products, via leading employers in the US and the UK’s NHS.

You, a critical team member, will be developing critical components of the next generation of digital therapies platform. You will have the opportunity to influence technology decisions & architecture as we optimize the product & scale our digital therapy platform. This is an outstanding opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer to build a modern platform and make a positive impact in the lives of millions of people suffering from a mental health condition.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will:

Design, build and maintain clean, reusable components of our Digital Medicine platform
Design for scalability, observability and ease of maintenance
Show ownership and ensure quality of your deliverables
Participate in the documentation of technical designs
Collaborate across teams to improve our engineering practices
Mentor junior team members in best practices

In order to be successful in this role, you will need:

4+ Years designing, building and operating backend systems in production
Experience building cloud-based distributed systems
Production experience in Python
Understand and applies relevant testing development practices
Good written and oral communication skills

It would be great if you had...

Serverless technologies like AWS Lambda
Experience developing Microservices, Rest APIs, OpenAPI
An interest in working across the stack and experience with Javascript and React
Experience with Agile methodology

Life at Big Health:

Be part of a team that includes clinical psychologists, software engineers, business leaders and even a former professional magician [shh… it’s a secret].
Surround yourself with the smartest, most enthusiastic and dedicated people you’ll ever meet, but who listen well, learn from their mistakes and when things go wrong, generously pull together to help each other out
Check out our values - they’re a living, breathing part of our culture
Enjoy benefits including a generous vacation policy, professional development fund, flexible working locations and more.
Competitive salary packages including stock options.

Because we are on a mission to bring millions back to good mental health, we believe it’s essential to reflect the diversity of those we intend to serve. We’re an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building a culturally and experientially diverse team that leads with empathy and respect.

Additionally, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Big Health participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with Form I-9 information from all new employees to confirm that they are authorized to work in the U.S. Big Health does not use E-Verify to pre-screen applicants.

About Big Health

Our purpose is to help millions back to good mental health This is what drives us. It’s why we're creating automated behavioral programs scalable enough to help everyone in need - what we call "digital medicine”. It’s why we align our incentives with the interests of our users. It’s why we collect gold-standard clinical evidence and treat ethics as a duty, not a chore.