Senior Full Stack Engineer

Summary

Join Alma, a company simplifying access to affordable mental healthcare, as a Senior Full Stack Engineer. You will build features solving real client problems, heavily influencing Alma's features, services, and architecture. This role requires strong backend skills but also involves leading complex frontend initiatives. You will collaborate with various teams, ensuring applications meet Alma's standards. The ideal candidate has 4-7 years of experience, expertise in web technologies, and a passion for customer-centered development. Alma offers a remote-first work environment and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• You have 4-7 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 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

• Work across the stack and support complex initiatives in both the front and backend based on team need
• Plan complex projects with stakeholders and guide execution and delivery
• Own team quality practices and push for improvements
• Mentor other team members in thinking about the big picture, long term support plans, and building scalable and maintainable code
• Gain a deep understanding of what Alma clients, providers, and Insurance partners do, how they operate, and where their pain points are
• Design, develop, and implement maintainable and scalable product features using modern web technologies (React, Typescript, Python, Django, MySQL)
• Develop both internal and provider-facing tools features around insurance eligibility and operational efficiency
• Collaborate with Alma managers, PMs, and designers to 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