We’re looking for an Engineering Director to oversee our Carefinding and Internal Tools teams; and help drive Alma’s technology strategy. As a member of the Engineering leadership team and reporting to the CTO, this person will lead engineering efforts for all Alma’s applications and will be responsible for helping to build scalable products, teams, and processes.

The Engineering Director will lead a team of Engineering Managers and help guide them in the growth of their teams while helping standardize best practices across the organization.  This role will also partner closely with the Senior Director of Product and our Head of Design to define and implement a progressive product strategy that propels Alma to national expansion.

The ideal candidate must have technical and operational chops working across teams to achieve objectives and execute projects, especially as the organization considers new products and categories.

**What you’ll do:**

- Grow and develop an incredible team of hardworking and motivated Engineers and Engineering Managers who have high expectations around individual ownership and impact.
- Set goals and direction for the team, anticipating strategic and company scaling challenges via thoughtful long-term planning.
- Partner with product managers, designers, and other stakeholders to ensure your team is prioritizing and delivering value to Alma members.
- Engage and lead in the end-to-end recruiting process, hiring, and onboarding engineering talent to grow and scale the team.
- Collaborate with the Product/Engineering Team to help craft technical and product strategy.
- Work with the Engineering and Product Leadership teams to continually evolve Alma’s culture to align with the needs of the business.

**Who you are:**

- You have 7-10 years of engineering experience in both frontend and backend domains, with 5+ years of combined tech leadership and people management.
- You’ve previously led and/or managed a team of 3 or more Engineering Managers or Team Leads.
- You have a demonstrable history of managing product engineering teams in engineering orgs over 100 engineers; including working with members of the team to define an architectural vision, and supporting change management as the team evolves various systems and introduces new technologies.
- You are a coach, a mentor, and an advocate to individual contributors of different seniority levels and expertise.
- As necessary, you influence or own architecture decisions, help troubleshoot tricky technical issues, and ensure timely response to production incidents.
- You possess a clear and engaging communication style with a track record of building positive relationships across a broad diverse organization.
- You can comfortably communicate technical details with people outside of engineering.
- You have a demonstrable history of shipping user-facing products.
- You feel a passion for Alma's mission – to improve the experience of therapy for providers and their clients, and simplify access to care.

**Benefits:**

- We’re a remote-first company
- Health insurance plans through Cigna (medical and dental) and MetLife (vision), including FSA & HSA plans
- 401k plan (Roth and traditional)
- Free Alma platform access
- Monthly therapy and wellness stipends
- Monthly co-working space membership stipend
- Monthly work-from-home stipend to power your wifi, lunches, coffee, etc
- Pet discount program through United Pet Care
- Financial perks and rewards through BenefitHub
- Free EAP access through LifeWorks
- One-time home office stipend to set up your home office
- Comprehensive parental leave plans
- 9 paid holidays, 1 Alma Mental Health Day, and 1 Alma Volunteering Day
- Flexible PTO


Alma’s compensation philosophy is driven by our company value of building equity. To best ensure pay equity, we typically bring in new hires near the middle of our listed salary bands and we do not negotiate our compensation (i.e. all people hired at the same level & role are brought in at the same salary, equity, and benefits). The recruiter you work with can provide more details on our philosophy.

All Alma jobs are listed on our careers page. We do not use outside applications or automated text messaging in our recruiting process. We will not ask for any sensitive financial or identification information throughout the recruiting process. Any communication during the recruitment process, including interview requests or job offers, will come directly from a recruiting team member with a helloalma.com email address.

Director of Engineering, Product

Alma is seeking a mission-driven Engineering Manager to lead our Developer Experience team. We are dedicated to designing, implementing, and maintaining Alma’s technology infrastructure. In this role, you will build services and tools that solve real problems for Alma’s engineering team. The ideal candidate can recognize that successful software development requires communication, experimentation, and iteration.

On this growing team, you will have a strong hand in defining the underlying systems that Alma's engineering team uses to deliver software and data products. The ideal person for this role loves to work with other teams to design and build amazing systems.

**What you’ll do:**

- Work to maintain, simplify and reinvent the systems underlying the application, such as deployment technologies, feature flagging, testing frameworks, observability tooling (error handling, monitoring, alerting, behavioral analytics), and more. Technologies you’ll be working with include AWS, Storybook (UI components), LaunchDarkly (feature flagging and A/B testing), Docker, Terraform, Elasticsearch, Django, Celery, Redis, SQL.
- Grow and develop an incredible team of hardworking, collaborative, and motivated engineers who have high expectations around individual ownership and impact
- Set direction for the team, taking into account pain points in the software development lifecycle; and opportunities to enable feature teams to ship faster and learn more from each deploy.
- Gain a deep understanding of the software development process at Alma and how the engineering team operates
- Collaborate with teammates on Platform, as well as Product Managers and peers from feature teams, to understand and prioritize solutions for practical problems facing Alma engineers
- Design, develop, and implement systems, processes, and tools to improve the experience and efficiency of the engineering team’s development process. (Developers environment, testing environment, deployment pipeline)
- Continually research current and emerging technologies, proposing changes where most impactful

**Who you are:**

- You have 4+ years of experience working with web technologies and frameworks, with 1+ years of people management
- You’ve previously managed a team of 3 or more engineers.
- You have extensive experience with web technologies. We are language agnostic in our interviews but require experience with one or more common web frameworks.
- You have a proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
- You have worked with scaling challenges in previous roles and have implemented best practices around scaling.
- You’re a systems thinker, concerned not only with individual component parts but with how those parts work together holistically.
- You’re pragmatic, recognizing that, while there are multiple approaches to solving a problem, it is important to weigh practicality over theory when decision-making.
- You possess a clear and engaging communication style with a track record of building positive relationships across a broad diverse organization with engineers as well as non-technical stakeholders.
- You have experience demonstrating DEI best practices in both your leadership style and while leading recruiting processes to build out an inclusive team.
- You feel a passion for Alma's mission – to improve the experience of therapy for providers and their clients, and simplify access to care.

**Benefits:**

- We’re a remote-first company
- Health insurance plans through Cigna (medical and dental) and MetLife (vision), including FSA & HSA plans
- 401k plan (Roth and traditional)
- Free Alma platform access
- Monthly therapy and wellness stipends
- Monthly co-working space membership stipend
- Monthly work-from-home stipend to power your wifi, lunches, coffee, etc
- Pet discount program through United Pet Care
- Financial perks and rewards through BenefitHub
- Free EAP access through LifeWorks
- One-time home office stipend to set up your home office
- Comprehensive parental leave plans
- 9 paid holidays, 1 Alma Mental Health Day, and 1 Alma Volunteering Day
- Flexible PTO

 Engineering Manager, Developer Experience

Alma is seeking a mission-driven Senior Platform Engineer to join our team.  We are dedicated to designing, implementing and maintaining Alma’s technology infrastructure. In this role, you will build services and tools that solve real problems for Alma’s engineering team. The ideal candidate can recognize that successful software development requires communication, experimentation, and iteration.

As a member of the Developer Experience team, you will have a strong hand in defining and refining the underlying systems with which Alma's engineering team executes and delivers software including deploy pipelines, testing frameworks, and our observability stack. The ideal person for this role loves to work with other teams to design and build amazing systems.

**What you’ll do:**

- Design, develop and implement systems, processes, and tools to improve the experience and efficiency of the engineering team’s development process. (Developers environment, testing environment, deployment pipeline)
- Collaborate with teammates on Platform, as well as PMs and peers from feature teams, to understand and prioritize solutions for practical problems facing Alma engineers.
- Work to maintain, simplify and reinvent the systems underlying the application platform, such as our developer environment, observability tooling (event tracking, error handling, and application performance management), testing frameworks (unit tests, integration test, e2e), and deploy pipelines (encompasses build, test, and release phases of the SDLC).
- Work towards maintaining and improving site reliability as our application scales
- Continually research current and emerging technologies, proposing changes where most impactful.
- Provide high-quality documentation and training to set engineers up for success.
- Ensure applications and services meet Alma's standards for software, including performance, scalability, and security.

**Who you are:**

- You have 4+ years of experience working with web technologies, frameworks, and AWS related technologies.
- You have extensive experience with web technologies. We are language agnostic in our interviews but require experience with one or more common web frameworks.
- You have experience maintaining, simplifying, and reinventing the systems underlying the applications platform, such as job queues, caching layers, error handling, monitoring, and alerting.
- You have worked with scaling challenges in previous roles and have implemented best practices around scaling.
- You have a strong testing philosophy, with abundant experience in writing different types of tests.
- You’re a systems thinker, concerned not only with individual component parts but with how those parts work together holistically.
- You’re pragmatic, recognizing that, while there are multiple approaches to solving a problem, it is important to weigh practicality over theory when decision-making.
- You are a strong communicator with engineers as well as non-technical stakeholders.
- You have a proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.

**Benefits:**

- We’re a remote-first company
- Health insurance plans through Cigna (medical and dental) and MetLife (vision), including FSA & HSA plans
- 401k plan (Roth and traditional)
- Free Alma platform access
- Monthly therapy and wellness stipends
- Monthly co-working space membership stipend
- Monthly work-from-home stipend to power your wifi, lunches, coffee, etc
- Pet discount program through United Pet Care
- Financial perks and rewards through BenefitHub
- Free EAP access through LifeWorks
- One-time home office stipend to set up your home office
- Comprehensive parental leave plans
- 9 paid holidays, 1 Alma Mental Health Day, and 1 Alma Volunteering Day

Senior Platform Engineer, Developer Experience

Alma

Alma is on a mission to simplify access to high-quality, affordable mental health care. We do this by making it easy and financially rewarding for therapists to accept insurance and offer in-network care. When a provider joins Alma, they gain access to a suite of tools that not only help them better run their business, but also grow it sustainably and develop as a provider. Alma is available in all 50 states, with over 8,000 therapists in our growing network. Anyone looking for a therapist can browse Alma’s free directory. Alma has raised $220.5M in funding from Insight Partners, Optum Ventures, Tusk Venture Partners, Primary Venture Partners, Sound Ventures, BoxGroup, Cigna Ventures, and Rainfall Ventures. Alma was also named one of Inc’s Best Workplaces in 2022. 

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