Staff Software Engineer, Stealth Venture

Reporting to the General Manager, Stealth Venture, you will be in a high-visibility, high-impact role as a Staff Software Engineer over a new initiative. We’re looking for an experienced, strategic and technical Staff Software Engineer who cares about impact, ownership, cross-functional projects, and mentorship. This hire will work with a fast-paced, agile engineering team, building 0-1 products that will shape the future of Spring. Experience working with healthcare infrastructure, in AI/ML, and having worked in an early-stage startup environment is a big plus.You’ll be a technical leader involved in driving strategic architecture decisions in a 0-1 team. You will be a champion of technical initiatives and work closely with our product leadership to prioritize and execute on deliverables. This is an opportunity to be the foundational member of an agile team for an innovative early stage product. You will be a part of a collaborative team identifying the opportunities and helping create the products that transform mental healthcare for the better. 

What You Will Be Doing: 

• Drive a 0-1 high-impact product initiative, playing a swiss army knife on engineering as a technical leader
• Mentor others on how to maintain and continue to raise the level of quality in everything we produce 
• Take on complex requirements and distill them into a proposal of small deliverables 
• Successfully manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
• Work with a cross-functional SWAT team of product managers, designers, data scientists, and marketers to rapidly innovate and execute against company priorities 
• Partner with the GM, EM, and CTO to set standards, technical vision, and software architecture
• Look for opportunities for process improvements and opportunities to exhibit leadership
• Exhibit a deep understanding of our products, how customers use them, and how they fit into the larger business 
• Quickly pivot solutions based on feedback or complexity, effectively communicating reasons for the change and path forward to rest of your team 
• Manage risks, dependencies and tradeoffs inevitable in complex project delivery 

 

What success looks like in this role:

• Launch an innovative, high-impact mental health product within 5 quarters
• Maintain strong engineering practices (e.g. minimizing code churn, cycle time, etc…)
• Develop architectures that allow for integrations and scalable growth
• Raise the bar for engineering excellence and delivery

What We Expect From You: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
• 8+ years of experience as an engineer or technologist, with a proven track record of delivering successful products in or adjacent to the healthcare industry, with 2+ in leadership capacity 
• Hands on technical leadership experience leading project teams and setting technical direction
• Deep understanding of modern healthcare SaaS platforms and their architecture
• Address cross-team challenges related to customers, quality and security
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. You should be able to explain your approach and the impact of your work to non-technical stakeholders 
• An ability to navigate ambiguity, with a bias towards rapid execution over process 
• Experience working in an early stage startup environment. Our ideal candidate will be comfortable with a high-growth, dynamic, 0-1 environment
• Preferred experience with AI/ML tools 
• Preferred experience in mental health technology; required experience in healthcare technology
• Ability to identify and prevent decisions that are not "two-way door decisions"

 

The target salary range for this position is $200,800 - $245,000 and is part of a competitive total rewards package including stock options, benefits, and incentive pay for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all employee pay and compensation programs annually at minimum to ensure competitive and fair pay.

Don’t meet every requirement? Studies have shown that women, communities of color and historically underrepresented talent are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Spring Health we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace

To ensure intentional and equitable hiring practices, we use a balanced candidate slate in our interviews. This approach guarantees that our pool of qualified candidates includes individuals who are underrepresented in our organization at all levels. This is a key performance indicator (KPI) for our recruiting and hiring teams, reported quarterly to maintain accountability.

Please note: You must wait 60 days before re-applying for the same job. Additionally, you can apply to up to three jobs within a rolling 30 day window. Focus on applying to jobs that are the most suitable match for your talents by carefully reading the overview and qualification information.

Ready to do the most impactful work of your life? Learn more about our values, how we work, and how hypergrowth meets impact at Spring Health: Our Values

Hypergrowth meets impact

What to expect working here:

• You will be held accountable to an exceptionally high bar and impact
• This may be the fastest work environment you will ever experience in terms of growth, decision-making, and time to impact
• You will be empowered to set your own boundaries and asked to adapt them in critical moments when the company needs you
• You will create processes & products that have never existed before
• You will have very direct conversations and receive continuous feedback to push you to become the most thriving team member and performer you can be
• Change is a constant here: your role, team, responsibilities, and success metrics will shift as the company grows

And…

• You get to be surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the field  
• You get to learn and grow at an extremely accelerated pace
• You will experience transparency, integrity, &  humility from leadership 
• You will be empowered to constantly challenge the status quo
• You get the space to experiment & innovate
• You get to make a transformational impact for the company, mental health, and for real human lives — and you will see that impact quickly
• You will become more resourceful and resilient
• You get to be part of a winning team that opens doors in the future

Benefits provided by Spring Health:

Your Total Health:

• Health, Dental, Vision benefits start on your first day at Spring Health. You and your dependents also receive an individual One Medical account which is valued at $199/year per user. HSA and FSA plans available
• A yearly allotment of no cost visits to the Spring Health network of therapists, coaches, and medication management providers for you and your dependents
• 10 allocated sick days per year
• Flexible paid time off in addition to 12 paid holidays throughout the year
• Access to Gympass, an on-demand virtual benefit that provides wellbeing coaching, and budget management.
• Spring Renewal: When you hit your four-year Springaversary, you’ll be awarded a four week, fully paid, sabbatical leave to renew and recharge. 

You And Your family:

• 4-4.5 months of fully paid parental leave
• Spring Health provides team members and their families with sponsored access to Bright Horizons® child care, back-up care, and elder care.
• Access to fertility care support through Carrot, in addition to $4,000 reimbursement for related fertility expenses

Supporting you financially through:

• Our People team benchmarks all salaries using the Radford Global Compensation Database for technology and life sciences industries. Radford benchmarks salaries with 3,589 global firms, 6.5 million employees, and 98 countries across the globe. We do this to ensure all of our team members are paid equally and competitively.
• On top of competitive and benchmarked salary, Spring Health offers incentive pay (based on role), and equity that begins vesting as we celebrate your first year with the company!
• Employer sponsored 401(k) match of up to 2% after 90 days of employment

Creating a culture you can thrive in:

• Flexible work arrangements: 66% of Spring Health team members work fully remote while 33% work in a hybrid model from our New York City offices
• Focus Fridays: no meetings, no distractions, just time for you to get work done.
• Focus Weeks: In Spring 2023, we held our first ever Focus Week, we canceled all non-essential meetings, minimized distractions, and you, our team members, to dive into the key work that gets chopped up or deprioritized during the regular day-to-day. We saw a 36% jump in the average energized score after those five days of flow state work and are finalizing a plan for quarterly Focus Weeks for team members.
• Up to $1,000 Professional Development Reimbursement per calendar year.
• $200 per year donation matching to support your favorite causes

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Don’t meet every requirement? Studies have shown that women, communities of color and historically underrepresented talent are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Spring Health we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace

To ensure intentional and equitable hiring practices, we use a balanced candidate slate in our interviews. This approach guarantees that our pool of qualified candidates includes individuals who are underrepresented in our organization at all levels. This is a key performance indicator (KPI) for our recruiting and hiring teams, reported quarterly to maintain accountability.