Tava Health is hiring a
Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Senior Backend Engineer at Tava Health, focusing on improving emotional healthcare through technology-enabled care. The role involves building APIs, integrations, and systems to capture data, managing service deployment in AWS, and ensuring empathy, security, and quality in work.

Requirements

• Ability to move fast and work through ambiguity - we are a small startup and are constantly balancing the demands of business growth and platform reliability
• Effective collaboration with frontend engineers, product managers, data scientists, behavioral health specialists, and others
• Willingness to learn new technologies and processes that may be out of your comfort zone
• Empathy for everyone you affect: patients, clinicians, coworkers, and yourself
• Proactive and consistent improvement of the security of our systems
• Clear and efficient technical writing and thought to communicate complex ideas
• A bachelor’s degree in computer science or the equivalent with around 5 years of backend experience
• Proficiency in Node, GraphQL, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and AWS

Responsibilities

• Infuse all of your work with empathy, security, and quality to produce high-quality experiences
• Build APIs to support client, clinical, and administrative applications
• Build integrations with 3rd party services for scheduling, video conferencing, and billing, etc
• Build systems to capture data about how clients interact with us to learn how to improve the product
• Manage and build our service deployment in AWS

Benefits

• Competitive Salary and Stock options
• Tava mental health benefit with access to your own personal therapist (available to you and your family)
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance (available to you and your dependents)
• Up to $1200/year contributed to your Health Savings Account
• Paid holidays and generous PTO
• Work from anywhere
• Parental leave
• Paid team lunches every Friday