Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Grow TherapyBase Salary
$182k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own backend services and APIs from technical design through implementation, deployment, and ongoing reliability.
- Drive architectural decisions and provide structure for complex, ambiguous problem spaces.
- Improve core platform systems, including data pipelines, service reliability, and business logic.
- Design safe, repeatable experimentation through robust A/B testing and analysis workflows.
- Diagnose and resolve data quality, performance, and correctness issues.
- Write clean, well-tested, maintainable production code and raise quality through code reviews and technical mentorship.
- Partner with Product, Design, and Data to translate goals into technical designs and execution plans.
- Shape team technical direction and contribute to cross-team architectural discussions.
- Build marketplace search, ranking, profiles, and booking systems; client scheduling, authentication, and notification systems; or insurance claims services, depending on team placement.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience with meaningful ownership of production backend systems.
- Deep backend expertise in service design, data modeling, and API development at scale.
- Experience operating systems where reliability, data quality, and performance are critical.
- Ability to create clarity in ambiguous technical and cross-functional problem spaces.
- Data-driven approach to experimentation, measurement, and optimization.
- Product-minded understanding of how technical decisions affect user experience and business outcomes.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with Product, Design, and Data Science stakeholders.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor or GitHub Copilot.
- Demonstrated ownership, speed, learning, and continuous improvement.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage.
- No-cost access to therapy through the Grow platform for US employees.
- Retirement savings programs and equity opportunities.
- Flexible time off, paid holidays, and a company-wide winter break.
- Up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave and a new child stipend.
- Weekly flexible time for mental health and self-care.
- Annual wellness and professional development stipend.
- Pre-tax commuter benefits for hub-based employees.
- Home office support and meal benefits.
- Additional wellbeing benefits, wellness memberships, virtual care, pet insurance discounts, and global travel assistance.
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring onsite work three days per week on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in the New York City, San Francisco, or Seattle hub, plus travel two to three times per year.
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About Grow Therapy
Grow is a mental health platform built to enable progress. We are more than a marketplace — bringing together clinical expertise, always-on tools, and deep insights to help clients improve their lives, providers build practices they're proud of, and businesses offer demonstrably more effective and efficient care. We believe mental health is a never-ending pursuit, and we build toward that progress every day — connecting people with the right expert, clearing the path to care, and turning insight into action with support that doesn't stop. At Grow, mental health isn't just a fix — it's a practice. And our goal isn't just to help clients feel better, it's to help them achieve their goals in life. For providers, Grow is the professional home for independent clinicians. We're as invested in providers as they are in their clients — which means we handle the payors so getting paid never becomes the work. We also build the tech foundation, foster the community, and elevate expert resources so providers can focus on being the best caregivers they can be. So far, 15 million sessions have started on Grow. Each one a step forward with therapy you begin, build on, and keep coming back to. • Covered by insurance: 220M lives covered on Grow • Start right away: Begin in 2 days, not the national 48-day average • Care that fits: In-person or virtual, day or night. Search by language, specialty, and more • Results you can feel: 80%+ of Grow clients feel better after starting therapy • No surprise costs: Clear cost estimates and no subscriptions Keep growing at growtherapy.com