About Birches Health:
Online gambling has taken over the US. More than 175m Americans now regularly bet on sports and the rates of gambling addiction have skyrocketed since online gambling’s legalization. As widespread gambling creates record levels of addiction, debt, and bankruptcy, millions of problem gamblers still cannot access specialized, comprehensive care that they desperately need.
At Birches Health, we’re beating the online gambling epidemic with virtual therapy for gambling addiction from specialized clinicians. Our care is covered by insurance and state funding to ensure access to treatment for problem gamblers. We work with patients throughout their gambling addiction journey to improve clinical outcomes and reduce healthcare costs.
Our mission is to build the medical and technological infrastructure for behavioral addiction in the US to make sure millions of patients receive the highest quality clinical outcomes and path to recovery they deserve. We’re backed by leading healthcare and gaming investors including General Catalyst, Will Ventures, Haystack, Operator Partners, and C-suite angels at private and public companies.
Join us to bring addiction care into the present day.
About The Role:
The founding Engineering Lead is a crucial position that will directly influence Birches Health’s operational success by owning initial iterations of our platform. We’re looking for a person who will partner with company leadership to define, develop, and iterate on a novel healthcare platform that helps gambling addicts get the care they need.
- Own end-to-end implementation of Birches Health’s platform from scoping of initial features to launch of final product
- Effectively navigate build vs. buy decisions for short and long-term tradeoffs
- Develop and iterate on a user-facing, two-sided platform (for both patients and clinicians)
- Write clean, scalable code
- Work closely with our founder to make key platform decisions, iterate on company roadmap, and expand the technical capabilities and team
- You’ll emerge as our first tech leader who is equally comfortable leading a team, supporting junior engineers, and reviewing code
Who You Are:
- Full Stack engineer with 4+ years experience architecting, developing and testing code end-to-end
- Architect the technology infrastructure for the platform, including scalable HIPAA and SOC2 compliant data storage and processing
- Experience working with APIs and relational databases
- Mastery of JavaScript or TypeScript and React (or another modern, enterprise level web or app development software language) required, knowledge of Python preferred
- Exceptional understanding of design systems with an eye for visual experience
- Working knowledge of CI/CD, feature flags, and API first architecture
- You have an eagerness to build technical solutions to business problems and can thrive in dynamic environments
- Experience in healthcare (or other industries with complex regulatory and compliance frameworks) or at early stage companies
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical counterparts