Senior Full Stack Engineer I

at  Kooth USA

SENIOR FULL STACK ENGINEER I | FULL TIME, REMOTE

About Us! Kooth is a fast-growing organization with a positive social purpose. After 20 years of successful service in the UK, we are now rapidly expanding in the United States!
Our mission: To provide welcoming, proactive and effective digital mental health support to young people. Using the collective insight from nearly 1 million hours of professional intervention, we guide young people to three areas of evidenced-based support: self-guided, community/peer interactions, and chat-based counseling provided by licensed Counselors. These areas of assistance are designed to match each individual’s current needs, wants and goals, as well as to identify and refer them to a higher level of care when needed.
We are looking for a well-rounded engineer to join us. We’re keen to find someone who can operate across our TypeScript-based stack, from Node.js backends to React Native components in our mobile apps, working with their teammates to tackle a diverse set of technical challenges and build great products. As a member of our team, you will be building new systems and experiences that guide young people to the services they need, and having a positive impact on their mental health.
If you would like to be part of an ambitious, fun and caring culture in a growing company that is having a positive social impact, look no further apply today!

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Developing, shipping and operating an ecosystem of Node.js backend services, React Native mobile applications, React-based web frontends, and the APIs that enable them to work together.
• Building great software by taking accountability for your work, always aiming to improve the systems that you work on, and partnering with engineering teammates in a highly-collaborative, team-based environment.
• Balancing performance, observability, reliability, maintainability, security and accessibility concerns.
• Leveraging best practices in continuous integration and delivery to iterate on product objectives.
• Collaborating across disciplines to build effective working relationships, solve challenging problems for our users, and drive positive business outcomes.
• Participating in an off-hours on-call rotation to support the ongoing reliable operation of our systems.

Qualifications:

Key Skills:

• You have at least 3 years of professional engineering experience working in a product-driven environment.
• You are fluent with TypeScript, Node.js, React Native and/or React or have a strong engineering background that will allow you to quickly come up to speed.
• You are a thoughtful engineer who’s capable of taking your work through the entire lifecycle from ideation to maintenance.
• You’re excited about delivering end-to-end experiences, are passionate about your craft, and relish working across the whole stack.
• You have a quality mindset and know what it means to ship maintainable, well-tested code.
• You are pragmatic and care about agile processes, data-informed development, reliability, and responsible experimentation.
• You have strong communication and collaboration skills, using them to ensure alignment with your peers and partner with them on problem-solving.
• You have worked with container-based systems in a cloud-native environment.
• You are team-oriented and value the group’s success over your personal achievements.

Compensation: $140,000 - $190,000, based on experience.

Here are some of the exciting benefits you will receive as a team member at Kooth:

• Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision benefits
• Prescription drug coverage
• Generous paid time off
• 8 paid holidays plus two, half-day holidays (Christmas Eve and New Years Eve)
• 401(k) retirement plan

Kooth provides equal employment opportunities to all people without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition, genetic information, military service, veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by law

• Developing, shipping and operating an ecosystem of Node.js backend services, React Native mobile applications, React-based web frontends, and the APIs that enable them to work together.
• Building great software by taking accountability for your work, always aiming to improve the systems that you work on, and partnering with engineering teammates in a highly-collaborative, team-based environment.
• Balancing performance, observability, reliability, maintainability, security and accessibility concerns.
• Leveraging best practices in continuous integration and delivery to iterate on product objectives.
• Collaborating across disciplines to build effective working relationships, solve challenging problems for our users, and drive positive business outcomes.
• Participating in an off-hours on-call rotation to support the ongoing reliable operation of our systems