Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack
Remote — USFull-time$117.7k - $162.9kPosted 20 days ago
Summary
Modern Health is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack to join their Software Development team. Modern Health Modern Health is a mental health benefits platform for employers. Key skills: React, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, REST, AI.
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. We empower companies to help all their employees be the best version of themselves, and believe in meeting people wherever they are in their mental health journey.
Modern Health is backed by investors like Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, John Doerr, Y Combinator, and Battery Ventures and 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.
More about our culture and what you can expect when you join the team:
- “It Takes a Village” culture. Modern Health has a unique and unabashed culture centered around high empathy and high accountability - with a drive to win. We are energized by bringing together the best talent in the industry to achieve audacious goals focused on making mental health a strength and priority for all.
- We have an obsession to win. We are highly ambitious and passionate about the work that we do. We take pride in delivering excellence and our personal best and we continuously innovate to uniquely solve our customers’ needs.
- We are accountable and can rely on each other. We are a team and hold ourselves and each other accountable. We believe in transparent communication and continuous feedback to foster a culture of trust, reliability, and growth.
- We demonstrate empathy. We have a supportive and diverse culture where we bolster and uplift each other as we pursue our lofty goals. We encourage selflessness and a willingness to support others, fostering a collaborative and respectful environment.
- We exhibit a bias towards action. This is a fast-paced environment. We jump into problems and initiate solutions. We empower our people to make decisions and experiment, iterate, and repeat until we get it right.
Modern Health is a fully remote workforce and a hyper-growth company that is often recognized for its excellence, winning awards such as World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2023 by Fast Company, Top 25 Companies of San Francisco 2023, and 2023 Well-Being Trailblazer Award. To protect our culture and help our team stay connected, we require overlapping hours for everyone. While many roles may function from anywhere in the world—see individual job listing for more—US based team members who live outside the Pacific time zone are expected to work at least six hours between 8 am and 5 pm Pacific time each workday.
We are looking for driven, creative, and passionate individuals to join in our mission. An inclusive and diverse culture are key components of mental well-being in the workplace, and that starts with how we build our own team. If you're excited about a role, we'd love to hear from you!
Senior Software Engineer - Full-Stack
About the Role
The Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack) will play a critical role in designing, building, and scaling user-facing web applications that power Modern Health’s core product experiences. This role requires strong backend engineering expertise complemented by solid frontend skills, with a focus on usability, quality, and overall software craftsmanship. You will partner closely with product, design, and cross-functional teams to translate business needs into thoughtful, high-quality solutions that deliver meaningful value to our users.
Location: Remote work, within the USA. This role is not eligible to be performed remote from Hawaii.
What You’ll Do
- Partner closely with product managers and designers to define and build features that address real user needs and drive meaningful outcomes
- Design, build, and iterate on end-to-end product features, seamlessly connecting backend systems with frontend experiences
- Develop and maintain backend services and APIs (REST and/or GraphQL) that power user-facing applications, as well as service-to-service interactions (both synchronous and asynchronous) across the system
- Build and refine frontend components using modern frameworks (e.g. React), with a focus on usability, performance, and overall user experience
- Model and manage application data using relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL), ensuring clean, well-structured data design
- Contribute to technical design discussions, shaping pragmatic solutions aligned with product goals
- Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure successful feature delivery, rollout, and continuous iteration
- Mentor engineers and help foster a strong product mindset and user-centric approach across the team
Required Skills & Experience
- 3+ years of full-stack software engineering experience building and shipping production web applications
- Strong experience building backend services and APIs, including REST and/or GraphQL
- Strong experience with frontend development in React (or similar modern framework), including component design, state management, and performance optimization
- Experience designing systems with service-to-service communication, including both synchronous and asynchronous patterns
- Solid experience with relational databases, especially PostgreSQL, including schema design and data modeling
- Demonstrated ability to build end-to-end product features from technical design through implementation, rollout, and iteration
- Experience partnering closely with product managers and designers in a product development environment
- Strong skills in technical design, system thinking, and pragmatic problem-solving
- Track record of writing clean, maintainable, well-tested code in a collaborative engineering team
- Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to strong engineering standards and team culture
- Clear focus on user experience, product quality, and customer impact.
- Immigration sponsorship is not available for this position. Applicants must be able to maintain work authorization for the duration of employment without employer sponsorship or employer-provided training plans or attestations (including, for example, the Form I-983 required for STEM OPT).
Who You Are:
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A product-minded engineer who cares deeply about solving real user problems and delivering meaningful outcomes.
- Thrives in a startup environment - scrappy, adaptable, and willing to take ownership across the stack to drive things forward
- Experienced in full-stack web development, with the ability and willingness to work across the stack as needed
- Experience owning projects end-to-end, from technical design through implementation, launch, and operational support
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and bringing structure to evolving product ideas, with a bias toward simplicity and pragmatic solutions
- Ability to balance speed and quality, making thoughtful tradeoffs appropriate for the stage of the company and product
- Collaborative and low-ego, with a strong track record of partnering effectively with product, design, and cross-functional teams
- Curious and growth-oriented - open to feedback and motivated to continuously improve both yourself and those around you
- Comfortable leveraging modern AI-assisted development tools and curious about how AI can improve both developer productivity and product experiences
Benefits
Fundamentals:
- Medical / Dental / Vision / Disability / Life Insurance
- High Deductible Health Plan with Health Savings Account (HSA) option
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Access to coaches and therapists through Modern Health's platform
- Flexible Time Off
- Company-wide Collective Pause Days
Family Support:
- Parental Leave Policy
- Family Forming Benefit through Carrot
- Family Assistance Benefit through UrbanSitter
Professional Development:
- Professional Development Stipend
Financial Wellness:
- 401k
- Financial Planning Benefit through Origin
But wait there’s more…!
- Annual Wellness Stipend to use on items that promote your overall well being
- New Hire Stipend to help cover work-from-home setup costs
- ModSquad Community: Virtual events like active ERGs, holiday themed activities, team-building events and more
- Monthly Cell Phone Reimbursement
Equal Pay for Equal Work Act Information
Please refer to the ranges below to find the starting annual pay range for individuals applying to work remotely from the following locations for this role.
- Zone 1: San Francisco Bay Area and New York City Metro
- Zone 2: All other California locations and Seattle, WA
- Zone 3: All other New York locations, All other Washington locations, Washington DC, Austin,
TX, CT, IL, MA, NH, NJ, OR, RI, VT - Zone 4: All other Texas locations, AL, AK, AZ, AR, CO, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NM, NC, ND, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, UT, VA, WV, WI, WY
Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience and may fall outside of the range shown. Ranges are not necessarily indicative of the associated starting pay range in other locations. Full-time employees are also eligible for Modern Health's equity program and incredible benefits package. See our Careers page for more information.
Depending on the scope of the role, some ranges are indicative of On Target Earnings (OTE) and includes both base pay and commission at 100% achievement of established targets.
Zone 1
$138,500—$162,900 USD
Zone 2
$138,500—$162,900 USD
Zone 3
$124,650—$146,610 USD
Zone 4
$117,725—$138,465 USD
Below, we are asking you to complete identity information for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). While we are required by law to ask these questions in the format provided by the EEOC, at Modern Health we know that gender is not binary, and we recognize that these categories do not reflect our employees' full range of identities.
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