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Our vision is to make mental health radically accessible.

We are a team of innovators, experts and business builders who have come together to develop advanced technologies that can transform healthcare. 

We’re focused on addressing the vast, unmet need for improved engagement and outcomes in mental health with Woebot, a digital coach that helps people engage more deeply and continuously in their mental health. Woebot’s breakthrough is its ability to form a human-level bond with people using the latest in NLP, ML and other advanced technologies. Leveraging this therapeutic bond, and the expertise of our Stanford-trained clinicians and scientists, Woebot is constantly learning from the experience of more than one million people and hundreds of millions of messages exchanged to deliver high quality CBT-based therapeutic tools that are psychologically related and responsive to a person’s dynamic state of health.

Our work to advance human-centered technology has attracted a lot of attention. Today we’ve amassed more mentions in the scientific literature than any other digital therapeutic company, and are regularly featured as the architects of a radical new approach to mental health. But we’ve only just begun. With the backing of some of the world’s most forward thinking investors and a new round of funding complete, we’re poised to redefine how people access mental health care. 

Are you ready to create a new future for mental health for everyone? Let’s do it together!

How You’ll Thrive

You will be the Engineering Manager for one of the key teams within the engineering group. This team’s primary role is to ship features that improve the clinical efficacy of the platform. Your team of five experienced engineers is distributed across the US and Europe. Your team knows the platform well and are highly familiar with our workflow and with getting features and products built efficiently and to specification. You’ll also be working closely with our colleagues in product, content writing, data analytics and QE.

You’ll be reporting directly to our VP of Engineering, Frank Lynam from whom you will also be inheriting this role. You actually get to interview with Frank so you’ll get to learn firsthand what it entails. For you to be successful in this role, you’ll need to be an accomplished project manager, people manager and prepared to contribute to our primarily Node.js backend codebase. While we don’t expect you to master Woebot’s platform right away, you’ll have ample resources to help you learn, including your team, product colleagues, and other engineering leaders.

This is an exciting time for the company. If you have a proven track record of shipping high quality features and leading agile teams with empathy, then this might be your next career move!

Within 1 month you will:

• Have gained a deeper understanding of what motivates your team and discovered what drives your team’s success.
• Have have set up weekly 1:1s with your direct reports and have started to get to know them.
• Have met with the product managers, content writers, QEs and data analysts that you will be working with on a day to day basis.
• Familiarize yourself with the Woebot SDLC and documentation workflows.
• Learn how to successfully roll out a platform component release.
• Immerse yourself in our knowledge base and proactively ask questions to bridge gaps in your understanding.
• Have written and merged a couple of small PRs.

Within 3 months you will:

• You have identified the strengths of your team and where it needs to be supplemented and are already translating this into actionable items including the sourcing of new team members.
• Be the primary PoC for your team for all inbound technical queries.
• Be agile and able to react to changes in requirements as they happen.
• Know a lot more about how the platform components work together and individually.
• Offer data driven suggestions to engineering leadership on how to improve our SDLC process.
• Review all technical documentation produced by your team.

Within 6 months you will:

• Be leading your team to produce two high quality features per quarter, each of which improves Woebot’s clinical potency.
• Be leading a team that feels psychologically safe and content while being productive.
• Be contributing to the writing of feature solution documentation based on product requirements.
• Be a promoter of best practices across the engineering workflow spectrum, e.g. secure coding practices, experimentation, release strategy etc.

Within Year 1 you will:

• Have made our feature creation and deployment workflow simpler and faster by adding to our content creation and general release tooling.
• Have added clinical efficacy features that will be tested in our internal product studies.
• Have grown your team from 5 to 8 engineers.
• Have an onboarding program that sees new senior engineers able to lead feature developments within 2 months of coming on board.
• Be data driven and be able to report objectively on your team’s meeting of company objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• You are the functional team manager for the engineering team tasked with improving the potency of Woebot.
• You are the people manager for the engineers in this team. You ensure that the team is happy and productive in their work.
• You collaborate on a daily basis with the two embedded product managers who are based on the West Coast of the US.
• You ensure features are built on time and to specification by your team.
• You ensure that good communication flows both within and outside of your team.
• You collaborate with the content writers, data analysts and QEs working within the same scrum team.
• You use parallel SDLC processes to cater for projects of different risk profiles.
• You work with your partners in engineering leadership on inter-team objectives.
• You are highly familiar with cloud platform services, particularly AWS and GCP.
• You have personally worked on numerous production backend software projects using a variety of software stacks.
• You may not be an expert in Node.js development but you have worked with this stack before, are able to write Node.js code and oversee projects in which Node.js is the primary development language.
• You have extensive experience building and using CI/CD pipelines.

Role Specific Competencies

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with at least 2 years as an engineering manager. Ideally, you will have worked for the majority of your career with consumer facing digital products. 
• Managerial expertise
• You are an excellent communicator.
• You are skilled in the training, motivating, and coaching of software engineers in your charge.
• You are skilled in people management - holding 1:1s, managing performance reviews, career development/coaching, motivation and conflict  resolution.
• You are highly familiar with the Agile/Scrum project management methodology.
• Technical expertise
• You are an expert in the building of backend solutions, preferably Node.js. 
• You are highly familiar with cloud platform services, particularly AWS and GCP.
• You have extensive experience of building and using CI/CD pipelines.You are an advocate for automated testing - e.g. Mocha, Appium/Selenium.
• You are familiar with the Serverless framework.

Our Core Values:

• Empathic: You’re a compassionate person and a team player motivated to understand others and help them be successful, too. You care as deeply for your colleagues as you do for our mission and our users.
• Self-aware: You possess a high level of emotional intelligence, which allows you to understand yourself and others, and to have a healthy emotional life in the workplace.
• Proactive & flexible:You are able to hit the ground running, you take responsibility for finding a way to get the job done. You learn as quickly as possible and sometimes do things outside the immediate scope of your work, giving it all you’ve got.
• Strong work-ethic: You’ve mastered healthy habits in your life that allow you to do great things. You exemplify dedication and commitment to coming up with very good results in your work and inspire others to do the same.
• Growth mindset: You believe abilities – like intelligence and talent – can be developed through dedication and hard work. You see failure as an opportunity to grow and welcome feedback as a pathway to your continued success.
• Humble: You recognize that you are one among many, and you hold a genuine desire to discover what other people can offer. You are intrigued by how others think, and how others feel differently from you. You lean into these moments with patience and  curiosity.

 Benefits 

• Competitive Salary
• Stock Options 
• Flexible PTO
• Health, Dental & Vision
• Healthy Snacks

Woebot is an equal opportunity employer and we deeply value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.