Staff Software Engineer

Posted Aug 19

Osmind is the premier platform for clinicians and researchers advancing new life-saving mental health treatments. Today, mental health disorders are one of the leading causes of death worldwide, especially among young adults, and are tied to shortening lifespans. While there have been developments in new psychiatric medications since the first FDA approval in 1954, today there is a growing movement among clinicians, patients, and researchers who are recognizing the need to accelerate new science.

The Osmind treatment platform is the first and only solution that solves specific challenges faced by neuropsychiatric clinics, spanning general psychiatry and interventional psychiatry (transcranial magnetic stimulation, ketamine, SPRAVATO®, psychedelic medicine, electroconvulsive therapy). The core electronic health record (EHR) technology is precisely developed for interventional treatment workflows and designed to support a strong therapeutic alliance, including journaling tools and assistance with health plan reimbursement, which is a significant access hurdle for millions of patients.

Research from our platform is already helping to set new standards for mental health interventions. For example, in the largest published real-world analysis of ketamine infusion therapy for depression, we teamed up with Stanford University School of Medicine to share findings in the Journal of Affective Disorders (March 2022). We have multiple ongoing research studies leveraging our proprietary real-world data, including an even larger ketamine analysis leveraging machine learning to predict treatment outcomes.

Osmind is a San Francisco–based public benefit corporation led by scientists, technologists, and psychiatrists. We are backed by top investors including DFJ Growth, General Catalyst, Future Ventures, Tiger Global, and Y Combinator.

The opportunity

We are a series B funded Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) building something that actually moves the needle on the global mental health crisis. (See here for an article our cofounder Jimmy wrote about PBC’s.)

What you’ll do

  • Projected Division of Responsibilities: 70% contributing code / 30% collaborating with stakeholders and mentoring.
  • Builder: Leverage strong pattern recognition for building SaaS applications that maintains the highest quality and effectively balances complexity and speed of delivery
  • Product thinking: Build for our providers and patients, not complexity for complexity’s sake
  • Mentorship: Amplify your skills and vision by supporting the growth of the team
  • Hone your craft: Continue to sharpen your skills, improving iteratively
  • Leadership: Take the lead on full features and subsystems, refine technical requirements to your collaborators, support design and development to execute your vision
  • Strength through diversity: Bring the nuance of your unique perspective to collaborative problem solving situations
  • Data-Driven: Utilize data to support prioritization and ensure that your work has real world impact
  • Engineering Culture: Contribute to improving and building a considerate and inclusive engineering culture
  • Our tech stack: TypeScript, JavaScript, React and React Native (Expo), Serverless Framework, Postgres, AWS Lambda and Node.JS

Requirements

  • Quality-first mentality
  • Production SaaS software development experience
  • Inclination to collaborate and find trade-offs that balance complexity, quality and speed of delivery
  • Strong competence data modeling for relational databases
  • Interest in improving mental healthcare and the patient journey

Nice to haves

  • Experience with our tech stack (excellent candidates will pick it up quickly)
  • Experience working on HIPAA-compliant applications in the healthcare space or other highly regulated industries
  • Experience using the Serverless Framework to architect microservices for health care applications
  • Ability to generalize health care business logic requirements into a domain-specific language for non-technical users
  • Formal training in machine learning training and inference optimization

A successful first year may look like:

  • Present and support key architectural decisions that support the long term growth and stability of our system
  • Lead the development of new features by collaborating with product and design partners, chunking & sequencing work to maximize parallelization and delivering polished final products to production
  • Mentor junior team members both directly and by example to help others reach their true potential
  • Lead initiatives to fine tune controls and communication channels to improve quality, predictability, and throughput

About Us & More

Some candidates may see the list above and feel discouraged because they don't match all the items. Please apply anyway: there's a good chance you also have important skills we’ve missed! We are committed to diversity and building an equitable and inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and experiences, and we're taking steps to meet that commitment. We especially encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, underrepresented people of color, LGBTQ+ people, veterans, and people with disabilities.

Osmind is a public benefit corporation and platform for clinicians and researchers advancing new life-saving mental health treatments. We recently published our first Public Benefit Report that chronicles how our team of scientists, technologists, and psychiatrists have been working to help solve the worldwide mental health crisis, advance responsible innovation and research, and help ensure robust access to care for patients of all backgrounds. Read the report here: https://www.osmind.org/pbc.