Staff Software Engineer

Linus Health is a Boston-based digital health company focused on transforming brain health for people across the world. By advancing how we detect and address cognitive and brain disorders – leveraging cutting-edge neuroscience, clinical expertise, and artificial intelligence – our goal is to enable a future where people can live longer, happier, and healthier lives with better brain health.

We are a team of 110+(and growing!), embarking on an exciting period of accelerated growth.  We invite collaborative, self-driven and impact-oriented professionals to join our dynamic and fast-growing team.

Does this sound like an innovative & disruptive start-up where you could see yourself?  If so, please continue reading…

Please note that while this role can be 100% remote(with occasional travel 3-4 times a year to our HQ in Boston), within the US or Canada, however we are requiring that this person be based on EST time. Unfortunately, we are not able to provide sponsorship at the moment.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead software development projects and perform design and code reviews
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain high-performance backend services supporting mobile and web applications
• Establish best practices based on design patterns
• Provide technical leadership by mentoring/coaching other engineers
• Lead the team in estimation and planning as well as managing your own tasks and reporting on progress
• Craft, propose, and document architecture designs, and implement systems to fulfill business initiatives.  
• Establish testing policies and procedures (unit, integration, and e2e) 
• Consider and solve for and security, scalability, availability, and performance
• Propose short-term and long-term solutions for pain points in the system or product with clear deliverables and action items
• Ensure high availability and reliability of services in production

About You;

Must Have's:

• 10 years experience in software development and at least 3 years in a technical leadership role(Staff, Lead, Principal, etc)
• Experience leading development efforts on a shipped product
• Expertise in node.js
• Experience contributing to technical strategy and architecture
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis
• Familiarity with design patterns such as MVC, OOP, observer, etc
• Expertise in REST patterns and general API design, documentation, and testing including familiarity with tools like swagger and postman
• Experience with testing frameworks (e.g. jest, mocha, cypress) 
• Experience with CI/CD and integration with testing as well as git workflows like code reviews on merge requests
• Experience with cloud native development and stateless applications
• Experience writing and reviewing SQL

Nice to Have:

• Experience with building and supporting GQL APIs using best practices
• Experience building on AWS offerings
• Experience in full-stack development
• Experience supporting mobile applications
• Expertise with react framework
• Experience working in the healthcare industry or a regulated industry (HIPAA compliance, FDA, etc)

What We Offer:

• As a brain health company, you'll have an opportunity to have a lasting impact on the way people and communities engage with brain and mental health, and even to affect the prognosis of people’s mental and brain health trajectory(pretty powerful stuff if you ask me!)
• A mission-driven environment where all 110+ (and counting) employees strive to exemplify our core values every day
• Competitive compensation packages that include an annual discretionary target bonus incentive as well as valuable equity
• Unlimited PTO — We know this can work both ways, however our leadership team does an excellent job at encouraging people to take PTO
• A sincere and deep appreciation for the importance of mental health. We have recently implemented a “monthly flex day” where employees are encouraged to take time away from work to rest, recharge & reset.
• A peer-to-peer recognition program: Celebrating our employees hard work and success is in our DNA!
• Employee Referral Incentive program
• The base salary budgeted for this position is in the $170,000 - 190,000 (USD) range per year. The role will also include an annual discretionary target bonus based on performance as well as company equity. The final offer determined for a candidate who is hired into this position will depend on a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate's relevant skills, professional experience, and labor market conditions, etc.
• A robust healthcare package that includes medical, dental & vision benefits as well as a 401(K) program where Linus will match up to 6% of employee contributions..

Linus Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, genetic information, disability or any characteristic protected by law. We believe that diversity is critical to the growth of our company and understand the importance of fostering an environment where everyone has a voice. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities during the recruiting process. If you are in need of assistance due to a disability, please contact us