Senior Staff Engineer (Mobile)

Engineering – Product Engineering       ·       Remote (United States)       ·       Full time

Our Company:

At Cerebral, we’re on a mission to improve access to high-quality mental health care. We believe that everyone everywhere deserves to get the care they need, and are striving to make care convenient and accessible, while tackling the stigmas that surround mental illness.

Since launching in January 2020, we have gone from a team of 5 to over 4,000 across the United States. With support from investors like SoftBank, Silver Lake, Access Industries, Bill Ackman, WestCap, and others, and impactful leaders like you, we’ll continue to democratize mental health care and double down on clinical quality and deliver exceptional client outcomes for years to come. With a heavy focus on clinical quality and safety in all that we do, we’ve accomplished excellent outcomes for hundreds of thousands of clients:

• 82% of clients report an improvement in their anxiety symptoms after using Cerebral.  
• 75% of clients who report improvement in their depression see improvement within 60 days.  
• 50% of clients who initially report suicidal ideation no longer harbor suicidal thoughts after treatment with Cerebral.

This is just the beginning for Cerebral, and we won’t stop building, growing, and iterating until everyone, everywhere can access high-quality evidence-based mental health care without high costs and/or long wait times. We’re looking for mission-driven leaders who share these values, and we need your help as we transform access to high-quality mental health care in the United States and beyond.

The Role:

• One of the senior most technical members in delivery and software design of our cross-platform React Native mobile application for patients
• Lead the technical direction of our mobile strategies for the next 6-12 months
• Identify new business value with product leadership
• Developing technical implementation strategies to iteratively delivery value:
  • A/B testing
  • data driven decision making
  • hypothesis driven development
• Mentor/Sponsor mobile engineers (1:1 and as a team) through leadership by example example:
  • React/React Native development best practices
  • iOS/Android native development best practices
  • Proactively working across the “full product stack” of our systems/people/processes:
    • Web/Mobile/APIs/Data/Design systems/Product
  • Building and deploying mobile applications & services in a cloud-infrastructure environment
  • API Design in partnership with backend, platform, and feature engineering teams
• Work with a global team of engineers that are designing, building, and maintaining large-scale mobile applications focused on the patient experience
• Deliver industry leading mobile experiences, value, and engineering excellence by:
  • Introducing new technologies, processes, or techniques to work more effectively
  • Identifying architectural patterns to create code that is:
    • Testable/Composable/Reusable
  • Creating automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing strategies
  • Fostering a security-first mindset for the team
  • Consistently helping their teams overcome obstacles and proactively resolving blockers
• Support what is built, including monitoring, performance tuning, and responding to incidents
• Find opportunities to accelerate the roadmap and design systems that anticipate future use cases
• Contribute to the delivery and crafting of our OKRs, work with the product team to define KPIs and meet SLAs

Our tech stack:

• Mobile Platforms Supported: iOS & Android
• Cross-Platform Language: React Native, Typescript
• Other Languages: Ruby, Reactjs, Python, HTML, CSS
• Systems: AWS, Postgres, GitHub Actions

Skills you’ll bring:

• Experience being the most senior engineer across a few scrum teams in delivering a cross-platform mobile app in a remote first, fast-paced, startup environment
• Deep knowledge in the React, React-Native ecosystems in advanced topics
• Experience in either iOS or Android development in:
  • Native development for a specific platform (building in Swift/Obj-C/Kotlin/Java)
  • Bridging native code to React Native
• Proven experience in being a multiplier of top-tier engineering talent, with stories around efficiencies both in your direct mobile specialization, as well as stories around cross specialization efficiencies (DevOps, Data, Backend, FrontEnd, et. al.)
• Creating psychological safety: demonstrated ways of allowing your team to learn, fail, and experiment while balancing major impacts to the business. 
• Best in class testing practices to improve the quality of our mobile application by ensuring complete test automation across the testing pyramid

About You:

• Mission driven leader, with deep hands on leadership and experience in “making a dent in the universe”
• Prioritization of team goals vs. giving team members psychological safety to learn and grow by deciding on high impact, low-level decisions quickly, balanced with being patient/strategic about with high-level ones
• Demonstrate strong technical architecture and platform engineering skills and ability to switch between technology paradigms
• Adept at prioritizing value and shipping complex products while coordinating across multiple teams
• Energized by working with some of the best, world-class engineers, product managers, and architects 
• Drive diversity, inclusion and belonging (DE&I) by investing time, energy, and mentoring/sponsoring individuals with less privilege, access, and show high potential.

Bonus Experiences:

• Experience in creating white-label mobile applications based on a monolithic react-native codebase
• Exposure to mobile device management (MDM) systems, and designing enterprise-wide adoption of in-house native applications that are in a highly regulated environment.
• Experience creating design systems across mobile, web, and driving adoption across an organization: serving the double goal of systems adoption (StoryBook, etc) as well as design standardization across the organization
• Experiences with other cross-platform technologies and their use-cases (Flutter, Electron, Cordova, etc.)

Who we are (our company values):

• Client-first focus – Relentless focus on improving client experience & the quality of care
• Results and data-driven – Reach goals by making data-led decisions with measurable results
• Ownership – Accountable for hitting our goals & delivering on commitments
• High velocity – Strong bias for action, enabling us to quickly adapt & win in a fast-changing market
• Mission-driven experimentation – Iteratively experiment with new ideas, products, & services to help advance our mission
• Lead with empathy – Demonstrate the same level of compassion for one another as we show for our clients
• Deep, hands-on leadership – Leaders stay connected to the details of their operations & believe no task is beneath them

What we offer: 

• Mission-driven impact:
  • Shape the future of the #1 largest and fastest growing online mental health care company in the world
  • Build a platform that is improving the lives and well-being of hundreds of thousands of people (and counting)
  • Join a community of high achievers who have a passion for promoting mental health
• Path to develop & grow:
  • Bi-annual performance reviews & opportunities for promotions – as Cerebral grows, so should you. We build your goals together and forge a career path that is right for you
• Remote-first model: Work virtually from anywhere in the US
• Competitive compensation & benefits:
  • Total compensation includes equity/stock options
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, and 401k provided to all employees
  • Unlimited PTO – we encourage taking the time you need to relax and recharge
  • Top-tier wellness benefits and perks, including bi-quarterly mental health days (8 per year), No-Meeting-Wednesdays, holistic monthly wellness stipend, and access to on-demand health & wellness content
    • $200 WFH reimbursement
• Culture & connectivity:
  • Virtual social events (e.g., happy hours) enable us to build a sense of community and connect on a more personal level
  • Monthly peer-to-peer recognition allowance via Bonusly allows team members to reward one another for values-aligned contributions
  • Optional in-person company retreats provide an opportunity to augment team-building and celebrate our successes together

Cerebral is committed to bringing together humans from different backgrounds and perspectives, providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination against a job applicant on the basis of their race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, family or parental status, disability, age, veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We respect the laws enforced by the EEOC and are dedicated to going above and beyond in fostering diversity across our workplace.

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