Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer - Mental Health

We help people change their lives. BetterMood is the world’s largest mental wellness service. We set out on a mission to provide everyone with easy, affordable, and private access to improve their mental wellness anytime, anywhere. We’re taking mental healthcare to the next level. We combine clinical care, cutting-edge technology and data-driven product development to constantly learn, iterate, and improve. We are relentless in our pursuit of better, always questioning the status quo and discovering new ways to get things done and serve our members.

We are a community that grows together - both professionally and personally. Even with our exponential growth, our team is kept agile and nimble, allowing you to have a huge impact and carve your own path from day one. We invest in our team’s well-being and professional development because we know that business and individual growth go hand-in-hand. You will move fast, remain flexible, and be challenged every day. Join us!

What you will do

• You will develop end to end. You own your features and see them through to production and beyond
• You will develop best practices and write clean, secure, readable, scalable code. OOP where appropriate
• You will collaborate with other team members - engineers and others
• You will integrate and build for external and internal API's
• You will develop new products in PHP and alter existing PHP code to accommodate scale and integration with new technologies and APIs
• You will write and optimize SQL queries and design schemas
• You will create and code complex backend algorithms
• You will profile and optimize new and legacy code
• You will use CSS and Javascript to complete functionality of new products
• You will be leveraging Bootstrap 3, jQuery HTML5, CSS3 and other open source technologies
• You will always be thinking cross-device and cross-platform, mobile, tablet and desktop
• You will ship often and fast. We keep an agile environment with continuous deployment
• You will care and be involved in our product, mission, and success - way beyond checking off development tasks
• You will enjoy great teamwork and lots of fun

What we expect

• Deep understanding of web development concepts and principles
• Example of full-stack projects
• At least one major demonstrable project with front-end code, back-end code and database
• Ability to design, develop and launch a web application from start to finish
• Ability to learn quickly and pick up new skills independently
• Get-things-done attitude with eagerness to build something great
• 5+ years of experience in web development (any stack), solving challenging problems and implementing new features from scratch
• 3+ years of experience in SQL. Designing relational DB schemas, complex queries, etc.
• Familiar with web & SQL security best practices
• Comfortable working outside the context of a framework. Frameworks can help you get some things done more quickly, but we find it helpful if candidates are comfortable working outside of a framework so they have a good understanding of what is going on behind the scenes first
• Experience using git in a team environment

What we offer

• Competitive salary & equity compensation
• Excellent health, dental, and vision coverage
• 401k benefits with employer matching contribution
• Ridiculous perks program
• Commuter benefits, FSA accounts, and Employee Stock Purchase Programs
• Building something that matters - loved by the people and admired by the press
• Any piece of hardware or software that will make you happy and productive
• Awesome people to work with
• Nothing to slow you down
• Helping people live a better life, every day