Lead Software Engineer

Why Charlie Health?

Millions of people across the country are navigating mental health conditions, substance use disorders, and eating disorders, but too often, they’re met with barriers to care. From limited local options and long wait times to treatment that lacks personalization, behavioral healthcare can leave people feeling unseen and unsupported.

Charlie Health exists to change that. Our mission is to connect the world to life-saving behavioral health treatment. We deliver personalized, virtual care rooted in connection—between clients and clinicians, care teams, loved ones, and the communities that support them. By focusing on people with complex needs, we’re expanding access to meaningful care and driving better outcomes from the comfort of home.

As a rapidly growing organization, we're reaching more communities every day and building a team that’s redefining what behavioral health treatment can look like. If you're ready to use your skills to drive lasting change and help more people access the care they deserve, we’d love to meet you.

About the Role

As an early member of Charlie Health’s Engineering Team, you will play a big part in building our applications from the ground up.

We’re looking for someone who enjoys partnering closely with the rest of the product development team to make durable contributions and technical decisions as we race toward product launches. You’ll thrive here if you find greenfield work energizing, have a high quality bar, and prefer to iterate to success.

Our team is composed of passionate, forward-thinking professionals eager to take on the challenge of the mental health crisis and play a formative role in providing life-saving solutions. We are looking for a candidate who is inspired by our mission and excited by the opportunity to increase access to mental healthcare and impact millions of lives in a profound way.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver high quality, performant, maintainable features that drive meaningful business value using our core technology stack: React, Python, and PostgreSQL


• Set strong patterns for our growing team to follow


• Lead, mentor, and inspire a cross-functional team of software engineers, driving the design, development, and delivery of high-quality software solutions while fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.


• Leverage AI and Machine Learning to enhance client and clinician-facing tools, transforming them into an industry-leading platform that empowers clients to take ownership of their mental health journey while driving measurable clinical outcomes.


• Be an owner. Collaborate with Product, Design, other stakeholders, and across Engineering to align and iterate to top notch product solutions


• Work on mission-critical features to engage potential clients and connect them with life-saving mental health care.


• Own and evolve engineering processes at the team level to align with org-wide practices. We’re early and the expectation of folks joining at this stage is that you’ll play a huge part in setting and improving how we work.


• Ensure our clients can always access the care they need by participating in our on-call rotation.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of professional experience developing user facing web or mobile applications that deliver meaningful business value


• Expertise and hands on production experience with an application programming language, preferably Python


• Excellent at managing ambiguity. Masterful ability to break down big, messy problems (demanding requirements, bugs, etc) into smaller parts with tractable solutions and clear iterations


• Meaningful scope within an application engineering team. Experience making or contributing to important technical tradeoff decisions with cross team implications


• Growth mindset and a sense of humor. You welcome feedback and when you stumble you get back up. You adapt quickly in a fast-paced environment and you enjoy fostering an environment that prioritizes fun, learning, and growth


• Please note: candidates located within 75 minutes commuting distance of our NYC office are expected to come to the office Monday through Thursday and Fridays are remote

Benefits

Charlie Health is pleased to offer comprehensive benefits to all full-time employees. Read more about our benefits here . #LI-Remote

Additional Information

The total target base compensation for this role will be between $185,000-$235,000 per year at the commencement of employment. Please note, pay will be determined on an individualized basis and will be impacted by location, experience, leveling, expertise, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. Further, cash compensation is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may include stock options and other Charlie Health-sponsored benefits.

Our Values

• Connection: Care deeply & inspire hope.


• Congruence: Stay curious & heed the evidence.


• Commitment: Act with urgency & don’t give up.

Please do not call our public clinical admissions line in regard to this or any other job posting.

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At Charlie Health, we value being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to cultivate an environment where individuals can be their authentic selves. Being an Equal Opportunity Employer means every member of our team feels as though they are supported and belong. We value diverse perspectives to help us provide essential mental health and substance use disorder treatments to all young people.

Charlie Health applicants are assessed solely on their qualifications for the role, without regard to disability or need for accommodation.

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