Founding Engineering Lead @ Behavioral Health Startup
Role Overview
The Founding Engineering Lead will take ownership of two products, focusing on making prototype code reliable and scalable. This senior role involves working closely with a small team to create innovative solutions for behavioral health, leveraging technologies like TypeScript and React. The engineer will significantly impact the company's success by executing a validated roadmap and building tools that improve mental health workflows.
Perks & Benefits
This position offers a competitive salary range of $150-250k, along with co-founder level equity for the right candidate. The role is fully remote, allowing for flexibility in work hours, and is ideal for someone invested in mental health innovation. The culture encourages quick execution of thoughtful features, fostering an environment where impactful contributions are valued.
Full Job Description
Role: Founding Engineering Lead – Full-Stack with LLM
Location: San Francisco
Our client is building a new behavioral health workflow automation platform that eliminates administrative burden in mental health clinics. They've found a white space in behavioral health testing (ADHD, autism, concussion clinics) where there's minimal existing technology and high openness to new solutions. As a result, they've acheived early product-market fit working with top instuitions such as Harvard and large well-known clinics throughout the United States.
Position Overview:
As a Founding Engineering Lead, you’ll work closely with the existing team to make prototype code reliable and scalable. You'll own two products end to end, executing on a roadmap that has been validated by the market. This role is ideal for a high agency, scrappy engineer who wants to be part of a company with clear product market-fit doing something impactful.
Key Responsibilities:
Own the product end-to-end: Help architect and implement the core experience using TypeScript, React, Next.js, and Supabase/Postgres.
Reliability and scale: Make existing prototype code both reliable and scalable
Data Pipeline: Create systems that ingest large amount of data, augment as needed, and apply AI rules around what's missed when needed
AI infrastructure: Create systems that proces large volumes of data (including voice)
Develop lightweight memory/state systems: Build ways to track user sentiment, patterns, and emotional state across sessions.
Execute quickly, ship with care: Build MVPs and features that feel thoughtful and intentional — fast, but not sloppy.
Qualifications:
3–6+ years of full-stack experience (ideally React/TypeScript)
Experience with LLM tools (e.g., OpenAI, LangChain, vector databases)
Interest in mental health, journaling, inner work, or emotional design
Bonus: background in NLP, affective computing, or human-computer interaction
What they offer:
$150-250k, co-founder level equity for the right person
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