Principal Engineer

New York City, NY - USA

Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 21 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Project Healthy Minds

Project Healthy Minds is a mental health nonprofit that runs like a tech startup. We are pioneering a first-of-its-kind model: applying technology to address one of the biggest social issues of our time: the growing mental health crisis. We believe in a simple but profound idea: that it should be as easy to find mental health services as it is to book a flight or a restaurant reservation. Thats why were building the worlds first digital marketplace for finding mental health services that are right for you.

To do that we work with some of the most inspiring and influential leaders in America - business titans tech entrepreneurs clinicians and scientists musicians artists athletes media stars policymakers and more - because we believe that the worlds most complex challenges require interdisciplinary teams and solutions.

We are backed by a powerhouse of industry-leading Board of Directors and Advisory Council Members who are passionate hands-on and dive into the important work with us.

Learn more at and @projecthealthyminds on social.

About The Role

WHAT WERE LOOKING FOR

The Principal Engineer is a core member of the product development team at Project Healthy Minds responsible for designing and building the technical foundations of a data-intensive mental health services marketplace. This role exists to ensure we can reliably ingest normalize and power complex service dataenabling product experiences that help millions of people find mental health support that actually works. This is a full-time in-office position.

HOW YOULL CONTRIBUTE

Own and evolve the core technical architecture of the PHM platform with a focus on data modeling normalization and performance

Design and build LLM-driven workflows to acquire structure and maintain production-grade data from disparate sources

Partner with external data providers to ingest data via APIs and feeds while designing resilient systems to handle incomplete or inconsistent inputs

Define schemas normalization strategies and data contracts that support reliable downstream product experiences

Implement and optimize sorting ranking and retrieval logic to support discovery comparison and decision-making use cases

Ship production code regularly working hands-on across backend and data layers

Apply modern AI tools and techniques to improve data enrichment tagging and internal workflows

Partner closely with Product and Design to translate ambiguous product needs into scalable technical solutions

Establish engineering standards through code reviews documentation and example

Partner with Legal and other stakeholders on compliance-related technical decisions

Support hiring and onboarding of additional senior engineers over time

REQUIREMENTS

10 years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in backend systems and data infrastructure

Strong data modeling skills: experience designing schemas normalization strategies and data contracts for production systems

Proficiency in Python or TypeScript for backend development

Hands-on experience with data pipelinesingesting transforming and normalizing data from APIs feeds and unstructured sources

Familiarity with LLMs/AI tooling for data enrichment classification or extraction workflows (practical application not just experimentation)

Strong understanding of database technologies (relational and document stores) and query optimization

Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred) and CI/CD practices

Comfort operating in ambiguitytranslating messy product requirements into clean technical solutions

Strong communication skills; ability to explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders

Passion for the mental health space

NICE TO HAVE

Experience with ranking retrieval or recommendation systems

Background in marketplaces healthcare data or compliance-sensitive domains

Familiarity with our stack (NextJS GCP) is helpful but not required

WHY THIS IS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY

A world-class Board Clinical Advisory Committee supporters and collaborators. Weve assembled a truly best-in-class network across business academia and media -- working to help us reach our goals and were still growing.

A big bold vision with backing. To achieve our target scale of impact were funded by a combination of private philanthropy and earned revenue. We are poised to continue our multi-year track record of strong year-over-year growth.

Startup mindset social mission ethos. Youll work with a team with experience at venture-backed startups market-leading enterprise organizations and everything in between. What brings us to this particular nonprofit is the recognition of a rare opportunity to drive massive positive impact in society.

What We Offer

Competitive compensation

Competitive medical dental and vision benefits

Paid holidays and generous PTO

Life insurance

Short-term and long-term disability

Spring Health mental healthcare

Commuter benefits

Perks at Work

Experience joining a dynamic start-up environment that is re-writing the playbook for social change in the mental health tech space

Benefits of joining a close-knit highly-motivated team with mentorship opportunities from a world-class network of founding leaders Advisors and Board members

Learning & Development opportunities including free MasterClass subscriptions

Opportunity to attend inspiring experiences and events with thought leaders business executives and iconic speakers across a range of industries

And more (just ask!)

The annual salary for this role is $22500 - $250000 depending on experience skills and other relevant considerations.

EEO Guidelines:Project Healthy Minds is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individuals sex age race color creed national origin alienage religion marital status pregnancy sexual orientation or affectional preference gender identity and expression disability genetic trait or predisposition carrier status citizenship veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. Project Healthy Minds will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal state and/or local laws and will consider qualified applicants including those with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable Fair Chance laws.

COVID Guidelines:The health and safety of our Project Healthy Minds community is the highest priority. As such Project Healthy Minds is requiring all newly hired staff members to be fully vaccinated and boosted with an FDA authorized and/or approved COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of employment. Requests for reasonable accommodations for medical religious or other reasons will be considered in accordance with applicable law.

Due to the high volume of applications received only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.

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About Project Healthy MindsProject Healthy Minds is a mental health nonprofit that runs like a tech startup. We are pioneering a first-of-its-kind model: applying technology to address one of the biggest social issues of our time: the growing mental health crisis. We believe in a simple but profound...