Our mission: eliminating every barrier to mental health.Spring Health is a global mental health company on a mission to eliminate every barrier to mental health. We're building a world where getting support is simple, personal, and built around the person, so care can continue through every job, move, health plan, and life stage.
Our AI-native platform helps us deliver personalized support across self-guided tools, coaching, therapy, medication management, and specialty care. With outcomes independently validated by JAMA Network Open and the Validation Institute, Spring Health reaches more than 170 million people worldwide through leading employers, health plans, and partners.
As an AI-native company, we believe technology should expand the reach, quality, and humanity of care. Every Spring Health team member is expected to use AI tools thoughtfully, apply human judgment to AI outputs, and keep building AI fluency in ways that support their role and our mission.
The Member Growth Engineering team builds the digital experiences that help new members discover Spring Health and guide all members to the right care at the right moment. We are moving beyond traditional funnels to build a D2C brand and a habit-forming product. You will iterate rapidly on acquisition loops, activation pathways, and nurturing experiences to convert and re-engage members, ultimately driving Spring's mission of eliminating every barrier to mental health.
We are looking for a
Staff Software Engineer to help us evolve all of our mobile experiences to be best-in-class in service of this mission.
Please note that this is a
hybrid role based in San Francisco, with an expectation to be in the office 2-3 days per week at our 44 Montgomery Street location. Candidates must be based in the San Francisco metro area or able to relocate independently within 90 days of their start date. Occasional travel will be required for team on-sites.
What you'll do- Take ownership of a team's architecture-providing system-wide design guidance, decomposing software architecture into discrete components, and ensuring sound tradeoffs across competing dimensions.
- Produce architecture that is exemplary in terms of efficiency, stability, extensibility, and the ability to evolve; designs reflect strategic vision, awareness of non-functional requirements, and future product flexibility.
- Use AI to explore and validate architectural patterns and decisions; design AI-augmented workflows (e.g., automated code generation, incident analysis) that multiply team output and enable engineers at all levels to work more effectively.
- Establish guardrails for safe and responsible AI usage across your team, covering security, compliance, and output correctness.
- Drive best practices across the organization; lead initiatives to eliminate tech debt and prepare the codebase for future roadmap requirements.
- Critically influence large, cross-team projects-ensuring execution without delay or compromise, and anticipating and removing barriers of all kinds.
- Partnering with design to define a mobile design system and UX heuristics.
- Owning mobile CI/CD, app release process, and SDK/framework upgrades.
- Bring critical thinking and drive shared understanding in ambiguous situations; given a clear vision, create a strategy; given a clear strategy, define a sequence of objectives.
- Provide a system-wide view to the engineers you work with; share architectural improvements across the tech org to build buy-in and drive broad implementation.
- Develop strong working relationships cross-functionally and with business stakeholders; make sound tradeoffs between competing needs across short- and long-term horizons.
- Empower engineers to set ambitious goals and turn vision into reality; mentor and develop engineers across the organization, not just your immediate team.
What success looks like in this role- Architectural Ownership - You are responsible for a team's architecture. Your designs are exemplary-others reference them as the standard for engineering excellence across the org.
- AI-Augmented Engineering - You design workflows and tooling that make AI a force multiplier for your team. You establish guardrails that keep AI usage safe, compliant, and high-quality.
- Strategic Clarity - You turn vision into strategy and strategy into objectives. You bring structure and shared understanding to the most ambiguous problems on your team and across the org.
- Cross-Org Influence - You drive best practices beyond your immediate team. Engineers and leaders across the organization seek your input on the hardest technical problems.
- Engineering Excellence - You lead large-scale initiatives to reduce tech debt, improve architecture, and raise the quality bar. You leave every system better than you found it.
- People & Org Health - You empower engineers to do their best work-providing proper context, mentoring across levels, and fostering an inclusive, high-trust culture.
- Operational Reliability - You handle escalations reliably and lead high-stakes investigations with calm, clear communication. You drive systemic improvements to reduce future incidents.
What you'll bring- At least 10 years experience as a software engineer
- At least 5 years of cumulative experience or exposure developing mobile apps on both Flutter (Dart) and React Native (JS/TS)
- Uses AI to explore and validate architectural decisions, design AI-augmented engineering workflows, and establish quality and safety guardrails for AI-assisted work across a team
- Track record of proactive and collaborative leadership style
- Track record of technical leadership, creating clarity from ambiguity
The target base salary range for this position is
$239,000 - 270,000, and is part of a competitive total rewards package including stock options and benefits. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all employee pay and compensation programs annually using
Radford Global Compensation Databaseat minimum to ensure competitive and fair pay.
Benefits provided by Spring Health:Note: We have even more benefits than listed here and below, your recruiter will provide more in-depth information as you continue in the interview process. Benefits are subject to individual plan requirements and eligibility criteria.
- Health, Dental, Vision benefits start on your first day at Spring. You and your dependents also receive access to One Medicalaccounts HSA and FSA plans are also available, with Spring contributing up to $1K for HSAs, depending on your plan type.
- Employer sponsored 401(k) match of up to 2% for retirement planning
- A yearly allotment of no cost visits to the Spring Health network of therapists, coaches, and medication management providers for you and your dependents.
- We offer competitive paid time off policies including vacation, sick leave and company holidays.
- At 6 months tenure with Spring, we offer parental leave of 18 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Access to Noom, a weight management program-based in psychology, that's tailored to your unique needs and goals.
- Access to fertility care support through Carrot, in addition to $4,000 reimbursement for related fertility expenses.
- Access toWellhub, which connects employees to the best options for fitness, mindfulness, nutrition, and sleep in one subscription
- Access to BrightHorizons, which provides sponsored child care, back-up care, and elder care
- Up to $1,000 Professional Development Reimbursement a year.
- $200 per year donation matching to support your favorite causes.
Not sure if you meet every requirement? Research shows that women and people from historically underrepresented communities often hesitate to apply for roles unless they meet every qualification compared to other similarly-qualified candidates. At Spring Health, we are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone feels valued, empowered, and supported to Thrive. If this role excites you, we encourage you to apply.
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