Backend Engineer

Mindbloom 🧠

We’re on a mission to transform lives to transform the world. 

Today, we’re the first and largest national provider of ketamine therapy for depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Our product is the most clinically effective and premium client experience by far, all while being affordable to everyday Americans 100% from the comfort and convenience of home.

Every day, we hear stories of transformation from clients like Leslie, “I suffered from crippling anxiety, depression, and became treatment-resistant. I tried Mindbloom out of literal desperation. Ketamine therapy has changed my life – perhaps even saved it”.

• 300,000+ treatments per year

• 38 states reaching 86% of Americans

• 2 largest peer-reviewed studies in psychedelic medicine history

Tomorrow, Mindbloom will offer the next generation of psychedelic medicines, including MDMA and psilocybin.

The Backend Engineer Role 🎨

As Backend Engineer, you’ll literally transform and save lives by raising the bar in the speed and quality in which we build and deploy features across our web and mobile applications, maintaining a stable and well-monitored infrastructure, and upleveling the team through strong command of AI development workflows.

What You’ll Work On:

• Design, build, and maintain APIs that power our web and mobile applications

• Develop scalable and efficient backend systems to support new and existing product features

• Work on data integrations to streamline operations and enhance the client experience

• Optimize backend performance and reliability for a seamless user experience

• Improve developer velocity by enhancing automation and testing frameworks

• Stand up new infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines to support scaling and efficiency

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product, design, and AI specialists, to deliver impactful features

Example Projects:

• Session Delight: Implement AI-based art generation and content recommendation systems to enhance session experiences

• Connection through Cohorts: Utilize Circle platform features to create treatment-start-based cohort groups, increasing program completion rates

• Unleashed Session Integration: Implement AI-generated meditations and voice journaling for better session continuity and improved user outcomes

• Developer Velocity Enhancements: Improve test automation to streamline development with:

- 100% local runs of the integration test suite

- Consolidated library dependency management

- Python-based just-in-time test data generation and test execution

Tech Stack:

• Back-end: Python/Django, Postgres

• Front-end: Vue, React Native

• Hosting: AWS (RDS, SQS, S3, ECS)

• Data & Product: Segment, Amplitude, Snowflake, Looker

Do The Best Work Of Your Life ✨

The team you build is the company you build.

• Our Founder and CEO, Dylan Beynon, is a 3X founder building world-positive companies (1 exit and 2 category leaders with hundreds of millions raised)

• Our Medical Director, Dr. Leonardo Vando, is a pioneer in psychedelic therapy

• Our seasoned leadership team hails from household-name startups, like our Head of Engineering, Scott - meet him here

We’re backed by Tier 1 investors including Kleiner Perkins, 8VC, and Founders Fund.

Build In A Conscious Company Culture 🧘🏽‍♀️🧘‍♀

We don’t just transform our clients’ lives – we transform our Bloomineers’ lives too, through a culture of freedom and responsibility. 

• Remote-first from founding

• Asynchronous-oriented

• Rigorous and writing-based

Our CEO won the Tony Hsieh Award for building an innovative and transformational culture, and we’re consistently honored in employer awards like LinkedIn’s Top 50 Startups. 

Our core values:

• Practices Intellectual Honesty: You seek and speak the truth directly and possess high courage and low ego

• Makes Exceptional Decisions: You use the case-appropriate level of rigor, data, and speed

• Cultivates Wholeness: You bring your authentic self and practice positivity

• Focus: You simplify, practice deep work, and say no often

Sound Like You? 🎧

• Consummate Developer and Architect: Upholds exemplary coding, test, and observability practices; acts as a steward for the code base and the resultant client experience

• Resourceful Owner: Leverages both experience and new state-of-the-art tools and services to solve client problems; bias for action

• Mission-Obsessed: You have a personal connection to our mission

• Remote-able: You excel in a remote-first, writing-based culture of freedom and responsibility

Interview Process ✍

• Recruiter Phone Screen 

• Tech Lead Interview

• HM Interview 

• Tech Deep Dive 

• Founder & CEO Interview 

• Reference Calls

Benefits 🤝

• Psychedelic Therapy: 90% off Mindblooom for you and 40% off for your family

• Fully Remote: More freedom, flexibility, and deep work than you’ve ever experienced

• Culture: Annual company retreat and department offsites

• Time Off: Take what you need vacation and parental leave policy

• Insurance: Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Retirement: Employer-sponsored 401k plan

Given Mindbloom’s funding and size, we heavily value the potential upside from equity in our compensation package. Further, note that Mindbloom has minimal hierarchy and titles, but the scope of the role and compensation will be reflective of your level. The estimated annual salary range for this role is $110,000 - $175,000 USD. The actual base salary may differ based on your current level of job-related skills and experience, and on market data changes. Total compensation for this role may vary depending on equity, sales incentives (for sales roles), and benefits elected.

Mindbloom is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local law.