Senior 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!

LifeStance Health Values

• Belonging: We cultivate a space where everyone can show up as their authentic self.

• Empathy: We seek out diverse perspectives and listen to learn without judgment.

• Courage: We are all accountable for doing the right thing - even when it's hard - because we know it's worth it.

• One Team: We realize our full potential when we work together towards our shared purpose.

Benefits
As a full-time employee of LifeStance Health, the following benefits are offered: medical, dental, vision, AD&D, short and long-term disability, and life insurance. Additional benefits include a 401k retirement savings with employer match, paid parental leave, paid time off, holiday pay and an Employee Assistance Program.

ROLE OVERVIEW

We are looking for Senior Backend Engineer to lead technical projects that result in innovative solutions.  The individual will work collaboratively with QA, Product, and the Design team to build integrated solutions with other technology platforms as well as our own platform. This person builds with analytics and scalability in a dev-ops centric culture.

COMPENSATION: $120,000 - $130,000/annually in addition to a competitive bonus plan

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop high-volume, low-latency products for mission-critical systems, delivering high-availability and performance

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

• 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

• 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

• 5+ years of experience Ruby on Rails

• 3+ years of experience with Postgres

• 2+ years of experience with React/TypeScript

• Experience with RSpec

• Experience working in an Agile environment following SDLC

• AWS Cloud Experience

• Deep understanding of API design and best practices

• Experience leveraging external API for deep integration

• Ability to lead projects across stacks and blended 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

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, bend, talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to walk. The employee must be able to lift and/or move objects up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

LifeStance provides the compensation range and benefits that it in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position. LifeStance reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, or federal law.

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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. Learn more about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at LifeStance.