Senior Full Stack Developer

About Child Mind Institute

Were dedicated to transforming the lives of children and families struggling with mental health and learning disorders by giving them the help they need. Weve become the leading independent nonprofit in childrens mental health by providing gold-standard evidence-based care delivering educational resources to millions of families each year training educators in underserved communities and developing tomorrows breakthrough treatments.

Position Details:

As part of the Center for Data Analytics Innovation and Rigor team you will report to Technical Program Manager. You will develop web-based applications and interactive platforms supporting AI research projects. You will work across the stack from database schemas to user interfaces taking ownership of features from design through production deployment. Working in close collaboration with data science professionals clinical researchers and non-technical team members you will build scalable user-friendly solutions that support mental health research and clinical applications. You will use common frameworks platforms and languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript Python React GitHub containerization tools (e.g. Docker) and cloud computing infrastructures (e.g. AWS Azure) to support full stack development initiatives at the interface of our clinical and computational research needs.

This is an exempt full-time hybrid position located in our NYC headquarters office or other relevant location. This position requires a minimum of four (4) days per week in the office on a schedule determined by your supervisor. The in-office requirement and schedule are subject to change based on the needs of the program and the organization.

You Will:

• Contribute to scalable well-documented code for web applications and analytic pipelines that is suitable for high performance computing ecosystems and shared to GitHub or equivalent repositories for version control.
• General-purpose programming support for research projects and guidance and mentorship to junior software developers and scientific software generalists in both technical and scientific contexts.
• Design and implement scientific analyses and software pipelines with a focus on automated evaluation of model performance in particular in the natural language processing space.
• Apply both pre-trained and custom-made machine learning models to clinical contexts ensuring the responsible handling of sensitive data.
• Design and develop web applications interactive platforms and data visualization tools to support research initiatives
• Ensure data quality security and compliance with privacy regulations.
• Perform additional job-related duties as assigned.

You Have:

• Masters degree in Neuroscience Psychology Engineering Computer Science or equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
• 8 years of experience in data analysis and data science fundamentals (e.g. algorithms data structures data visualization machine learning) preferably in a clinical or research setting.
• 8 years of experience in at least one scientific programming language (e.g. Python/R Matlab) and related toolboxes or frameworks (e.g. Tidyverse Scipy Sklearn Polars Pytorch) is required.
• 8 years of experience working in a Linux environment using version control systems (e.g. GitHub) and software virtualization platforms (e.g. Docker).
• 5 years of experience in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks (React Angular or similar) Backend API development infrastructure automation (Terraform) CI/CD pipelines and cloud computing ecosystems (Azure AWS).

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Our Benefits

Our great compensation package and benefits include medical insurance 401(k) paid parental leave dependent care flexible work schedules discounted tickets and entertainment perks programs. For more information about our benefits please visit our employee benefits website.

Pay Range

The salary range for the position is posted. Factors such as candidates work experience education/training job-related skills internal peer equity as well as market and business considerations affect the salary offered within this addition this salary may be subject to a geographic adjustment (according to a specific city and state and depending on the role) if an authorization is granted to work outside of the location listed in this posting.

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