**Full Time, Remote - US only**
**Our vision is to make mental health radically accessible**
We are a venture-backed startup building tools to help millions of people
monitor, regulate, and ultimately improve their moods. Our tools are powered
by the latest research in NLP and ML, use scientifically proven techniques
from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT),
and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), and are based on 10 years of digital
mental health research at Stanford University. With Andrew Ng serving as our
Chairman and Dan Jurafsky sitting on our advisory board, we have globally
recognized leaders in AI & NLP closely involved with our work.
We are focused on addressing the vast, unmet need for improved engagement and
outcomes in mental health with Woebot, a digital coach that helps people
engage more deeply and continuously in their mental health. Woebot's
breakthrough is its ability to form a human-level bond with people using the
latest in NLP, ML and other advanced technologies. Leveraging this therapeutic
bond, and the expertise of our Stanford-trained clinicians and scientists,
Woebot is constantly learning from the experience of more than one million
people and hundreds of millions of messages exchanged to deliver high quality
CBT-based therapeutic tools that are psychologically related and responsive to
a person’s dynamic state of health.
We are poised to redefine how people access mental health care, and we are
building the dream team that’s excited about getting us there. We are a fully
remote, collaborative, and human-centered organization. If you get excited
about the possibilities of transforming the future of mental health while
working with a dynamic team with backgrounds ranging from clinical psychology
to enterprise-grade AI applications, then this role is for you!
**Why You Should Join Our Engineering Team**
You care about helping make quality mental health care realistically
accessible to millions of people globally and are genuinely curious and proven
at building complex scalable distributed systems.
You have the unique opportunity to create and improve our core bot as part of
the Core Product engineering team, helping to delineate Woebot into a premium
offering which will ultimately become the new standard in digital
therapeutics. The Core Product team’s objective is to build features that
continue to improve Woebot’s clinical efficacy.
In the process, you’ll learn a lot about chatbot architecture, serverless
cloud deployments, agile software development and best in class development
practices.
**Who You Are**
To succeed in this role, you will need to thrive in an environment that
fosters collaboration while also giving you the space and opportunity for
independent thinking and project ownership. You are constantly looking to hone
your craft and to share those learnings with your colleagues.
You know how to strike a balance between delivering to a deadline and to
product requirements, while at the same time maintaining the highest levels of
quality. Most importantly, you are energized by the idea of learning more
about evidence-based psychological interventions and how to translate them
into digital products that improve the lives of millions of people.
You are an experienced **JavaScript** (and ideally **TypeScript** ) coder,
that has delivered complex **Node.js** solutions to production environments on
AWS or similar cloud platforms. You are able to quickly assess a project’s
objectives, to detail proposed solutions and to help select, implement and
deliver the best options.
**How You’ll Thrive**
**Ramping Up**
* In **your first 4 weeks** , you’ve read and digested our entire code base, have made several small enhancements and bug fixes, and have come up with a list of recommendations for improving our back-end systems.
**Become A Leader On The Engineering Team**
* You have a deep knowledge of Node.js and AWS cloud (or similar cloud platform) and can enforce best practices while mentoring other engineers to become masters of their craft.
* You are responsible for creating new features and functionality in the core logic of our bot, and work directly with our product team to integrate their ideas into the system.
**Improve Woebot Without Sacrificing Quality**
* By **day 45** you have delivered a new feature end-to-end, from understanding the solution design to coding to peer review to production launch and error monitoring.
* By **day 60** you are translating user needs and requirements into technical solutions, helping write technical specifications, and contributing elegant code that turns needs into reality.
**Create Systems That Help Us Scale**
* By **day 90** you’re identifying problems before they happen and creating preventative measures to avoid them, as well as monitoring systems that detect when they occur.
* Within your first few months, you are quickly learning, maintaining, and enhancing disparate systems across Woebot.
* You will add new features while improving and refactoring the existing system along the way, maintaining Woebot’s current functionality as our product and team scales.
**This Might Be Your Next Career Move If**
* You have **more than 4 years of experience** shipping production code with **Node.js**.
* You care about helping make quality mental health care realistically accessible to millions of people nationwide.
* You read voraciously about your field of expertise and enjoy bringing your learnings to the team in the form of recommendations for system improvement. You are a strong proponent of not only delivering new features but also of hardening systems along the way, making it bullet-proof to errors or outside attacks.
**Role Specific Competencies**
* Our platform is built on **Node.js**. You will need to have written production Node.js solutions at a previous employment and while you may still have more to learn, you have the drive to succeed.
* **AWS** or experience with another cloud provider such as **GCP** or **Azure**
* IaC, Terraform, serverless development, DevOps experience.
**Our Core Values**
* **Empathic** : You’re a compassionate person and a team player motivated to understand others and help them be successful, too. You care as deeply for your colleagues as you do for our mission and our users.
* **Self-aware** : You possess a high level of emotional intelligence, which allows you to understand yourself and others, and to have a healthy emotional life in the workplace.
* **Proactive & flexible**:You are able to hit the ground running, you take responsibility for finding a way to get the job done. You learn as quickly as possible and sometimes do things outside the immediate scope of your work, giving it all you’ve got.
* **Strong work-ethic** : You’ve mastered healthy habits in your life that allow you to do great things. You exemplify dedication and commitment to coming up with very good results in your work and inspire others to do the same.
* **Growth mindset:** You believe abilities – like intelligence and talent – can be developed through dedication and hard work. You see failure as an opportunity to grow and welcome feedback as a pathway to your continued success.
* **Humble:** You recognize that you are one among many, and you hold a genuine desire to discover what other people can offer. You are intrigued by how others think, and how others feel differently from you. You lean into these moments with patience and curiosity.
**Benefits**
* Competitive Salary
* Stock Options
* Flexible PTO
* Health, Dental & Vision
_Woebot is an equal opportunity employer and we deeply value diversity at our
company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color,
national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran
status, or disability status._
