Alma
Senior Full Stack Engineer II
Job Summary
The Senior Full Stack Engineer II at Alma is responsible for building and maintaining features that support mental health providers’ practice management, with an emphasis on scalability, security, and performance. The role involves collaboration with product and engineering teams to develop both frontend and backend solutions using technologies such as Python, Django, MySQL, React, and Typescript. Candidates should have 6-10 years of full-stacking experience, strong backend skills, and a customer-centered approach. The position offers comprehensive remote-first benefits, including health insurance, stipends, and paid time off.
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Job Description
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 II
Alma is seeking a mission-driven Senior Full Stack Engineer II to join our team. We are dedicated to building tools and services which help our providers more easily manage and grow their practice. In this role, you will be building features that solve real problems for mental health providers. The ideal candidate is able to recognize that successful software development requires communication, experimentation, and iteration.
On this scaling team, you will have a strong hand in defining Alma's insurance features, services, and architecture. The ideal person for this role loves to collaborate, has a foundation in backend engineering, some exposure to frontend development, and leverages this skill set to build amazing digital experiences.
What You’ll Do:
- Work in our backend space (40%) while tackling work full stack as needed to support projects with frontend-oriented goals (10%)
- (20%) Plan complex multi-team projects with stakeholders and guide execution and delivery
- (20%) Own the team’s technical, execution, goal setting, and prioritization practices
- (5%) Mentor software engineers across the organization
- (5%) Go beyond the team to impact the domain’s practices
How You’ll Do It:
- Gain a deep understanding of what Alma providers do, how they operate, and where their pain points are.
- Design, develop, and implement maintainable and scalable product features using front and back end web technologies (Python, Django, MySQL, React, Typescript).
- Develop both provider-facing and internal-facing features around scheduling, eligibility, and billing.
- Collaborate with Alma managers, PMs, and designers to conceptualize and build solutions for practical problems facing Alma providers.
- Ensure applications and services meet Alma's standards for software including performance, scalability, and security.
Who You Are:
- You have 6-10 years of experience as an engineer with a proven history of working across the stack, primarily backend, and building products at scale.
- You enjoy collaborating with engineering and product leaders on complex multi-team projects.
- 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 have a strong understanding of accessibility and security compliance.
- You’ve implemented automated testing platforms and unit tests.
- You have 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 possess a desire to experiment, (succeed or fail), and use research and data, where appropriate, to make data-driven decisions.
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: $178,000 - $254,200
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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