About Modern Health
Modern Health is a mental health benefits platform for employers. We are the first global mental health solution to offer employees access to one-on-one, group, and self-serve digital resources for their emotional, professional, social, financial, and physical well-being needs—all within a single platform. Whether someone wants to proactively manage stress or treat depression, Modern Health guides people to the right care at the right time.
Modern Health is backed by investors like Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, John Doerr, Y Combinator, and Battery Ventures and has raised more than $170 million in less than two years, making Modern Health the fastest entirely female-founded company in the U.S. to reach Unicorn status.
Our Culture
- “It Takes a Village” culture: We have a unique culture centered around high empathy, high accountability, and a drive to win.
- Obsession to win: We are highly ambitious and passionate about delivering excellence and continuous innovation.
- Accountability & Trust: We rely on each other through transparent communication and continuous feedback.
- Empathy: We build a supportive and diverse culture where we bolster and uplift each other.
- Bias towards action: We jump into problems, initiate solutions, experiment, iterate, and repeat.
Modern Health is a fully remote workforce. US-based team members who live outside the Pacific time zone are expected to work at least six hours between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM Pacific Time each workday.
About the Role
Growth Engineering is responsible for building and maintaining the reliable, configurable systems that power scalable client launches and secure member access to Modern Health. This includes programmatic and self-service control over eligibility, identity, and feature packaging while ensuring members quickly and reliably reach the care they are entitled to. The team owns the engineering behind eligibility processing, identity and access, the client configuration platform, and support of our reporting platform.
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer who operates with high ownership across the full stack: translating ambiguous problems into clear technical plans (tech specs/RFCs) and executing against those plans both individually and collaboratively. You will be expected to start owning critical parts of roadmap development within 30 days of onboarding.
Note: This position is not eligible to be performed in Hawaii. Immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.
What You'll Do
- Drive full-stack product development with a slight lean toward the backend.
- Build and maintain GraphQL APIs powered by Python services (Django, Flask).
- Implement web and mobile user experiences using React and React Native.
- Engineer efficient, reusable systems powering complex applications.
- Maintain HIPAA and GDPR compliance and general security best practices.
- Independently write and execute technical plans (tech specs/RFCs) for large, ambiguous projects, negotiating scope with product managers.
- Serve as the directly responsible individual (DRI) for engineering on roadmap commitments.
- Maintain technical documentation, unit tests, and integration tests.
- Lead cross-team engineering forums and mentor other engineers.
- Participate in an on-call rotation, driving investigation, remediation, and process improvements.
Tech Stack
- Backend: Python, Django, Flask, FastAPI, aiohttp, PostgreSQL, Redis
- APIs: GraphQL, REST
- Frontend: React, React Native, TypeScript, Redux, Vite
- Infrastructure: AWS (ECS, RDS, CloudFront), Docker
Requirements
- 8+ years of software development experience in general-purpose programming languages.
- 2+ years of production full-stack web development experience with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, React Native, and React.
- Deep familiarity with our tech stack (or a comparable stack) with an expectation to contribute meaningfully within 30 days.
- High ownership with a track record of writing technical plans (tech specs/RFCs) that hold up under cross-functional scrutiny.
- Experience building/maintaining GraphQL and/or REST APIs and scaling relational databases (PostgreSQL).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong cross-functional collaboration capabilities.
- Must be able to maintain work authorization without employer sponsorship.
Bonus Points
- Experience with authorization protocols (SSO SAML, OIDC, JWT).
- Experience with AI/LLM-powered features or leveraging AI tooling in development workflows.
- Working knowledge of AWS or cloud infrastructure.
- Previous experience at a high-growth startup, Health Tech, or HR tech company.
Compensation & Benefits
Starting Annual Base Pay Ranges
- Zone 1 (SF Bay Area, NYC Metro): $161,000 — $203,000 USD
- Zone 2 (All other CA locations, Seattle, WA): $161,000 — $203,000 USD
- Zone 3 (Other NY/WA, DC, Austin, CT, IL, MA, NH, NJ, OR, RI, VT): $145,000 — $183,000 USD
- Zone 4 (All other US locations): $137,000 — $172,000 USD
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, and Life Insurance
- HDHP with HSA option & FSA option
- Free access to coaches and therapists via Modern Health
- Flexible Time Off + Company-wide Collective Pause Days
- Parental leave policy & Family-forming benefits (Carrot, UrbanSitter)
- 401(k) & Financial planning benefits
- Annual Wellness Stipend & Work-From-Home Stipend
- Monthly Cell Phone Reimbursement
- Equity program participation
Timezone overlap
UTC-8–-4
Benefits
Health, Dental, Vision, Mental health, PTO, Parental leave, Learning, 401k, Wellness, Home office, Equity, Commission, Bonus
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