Senior Full Stack Engineer

Summary

Join Alma, a company simplifying access to affordable mental health care, as a Senior Full Stack Engineer. You will build features for mental health providers and clients, focusing on backend development while also contributing to frontend initiatives. Collaborate with a team to define Alma's features and architecture, improving client care through search, guided quizzes, and communication tools. Develop features to help providers market themselves and attract clients. This role requires experience in web technologies, building scalable products, and working with junior engineers. Alma offers a remote-first work environment and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• You have 4-6 years of experience as an engineer with a proven history of working across the stack and building products at scale
• 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've got an understanding of accessibility and security compliance
• You've got an understanding of observability and monitoring best practices
• You have implemented automated testing platforms and unit tests
• You possess 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 have a desire to experiment (succeed or fail), iterate, and make data-driven decisions
• You have experience working with junior engineers and providing mentorship to them as they work to improve/uplevel their skills
• You have experience leading medium to large size projects, including problem architecture/solutioning, breaking work into actionable tasks, and tracking progress to code completion delivery
• You understand how to accurately communicate expectations with stakeholders
• You are someone who champions best practices, challenges the status quo, brings fresh perspectives, and is proactive in shaping how things should be built to meet evolving needs

Responsibilities

• Gain a deep understanding of what Alma clients do, how they operate, and where their pain points are
• Work across the stack and support complex initiatives in both the front and backend based on team need
• Design, develop, and implement maintainable and scalable product features using modern web technologies (React, Typescript, Python, Django, MySQL)
• Improve how our clients find care through search for care, how we rank our search results, our guided quiz experience, consultations, and how clients manage communications with prospective providers
• Build features to help providers market themselves and attract new clients. This includes support for updating/editing profiles, managing consultation requests, notifications, and scheduling features
• Collaborate with Alma PMs, product marketers, data scientists, and designers to test, conceptualize and build solutions
• Ensure applications and services meet Alma's standards for software including performance, scalability, and security

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