Lead Mobile Engineer

About SonderMind

At SonderMind, we know that therapy works. SonderMind provides accessible, personalized mental healthcare that produces high-quality outcomes for patients. SonderMind's individualized approach to care starts with using innovative technology to help people not just find a therapist, but find the right, in-network therapist for them, should they choose to use their insurance. From there, SonderMind's clinicians are committed to delivering best-in-class care to all patients by focusing on high-quality clinical outcomes. To enable our clinicians to thrive, SonderMind defines care expectations while providing tools such as clinical note-taking, secure telehealth capabilities, outcome measurement, messaging, and direct booking.

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About the Role

SonderMind is looking for a Lead Mobile Engineer  with a passion for digital health solutions and a track record of developing impactful native mobile applications. In this role, you’ll lead a talented, distributed team of mobile developers, fostering collaboration and innovation to push the boundaries of what our mobile technology can achieve. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, you'll be pivotal in shaping the future of mental healthcare delivery, working closely with product, design, and engineering to prioritize, define, and execute our technology roadmap. This is your chance to spearhead a team that’s at the forefront of making mental health care accessible through technology.

Essential Functions 

• Architect, develop, and maintain scalable and robust native mobile applications. 
• Work with a small, distributed team of mobile developers; coordinating project delivery and ensuring adherence to high-quality coding practices. 
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering Management to define project scopes and deliverables, ensuring timely and impactful product releases. 
• Engage in hands-on coding, review pull requests, and contribute to the code base. 
• Champion the implementation of best practices in code quality, testing, and code reviews. 
• Oversee the integration of new technologies and frameworks to enhance application performance and user experience. 
• Ensure the mobile team aligns with overall business goals and technology strategies.  

What does success look like?

Success in the initial stages involves quickly assimilating into the SonderMind culture, understanding the existing mobile infrastructure, and forming solid relationships with the mobile team and cross-functional partners. Continued success means driving the team’s technical decisions to deliver innovative mobile solutions that deliver high engagement and positive clinical outcomes for our users, measured by project delivery times, application stability, user satisfaction, and team engagement metrics.

Who you are? 
Skills, experience, and education that is needed for this person to be able to succeed in this role 

• 7+ years of experience in native mobile application development (iOS or Android), with a portfolio that showcases deep technical expertise and innovation. 
• Proven experience leading a distributed development team, with excellent project management, communication, and leadership skills. 
• Proficient in Swift/SwiftUI or Kotlin, with a deep understanding of mobile architecture principles. 
• A strong advocate for clean code, automated testing, and continuous integration/delivery practices. 
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process. 
• Passionate about mental health and using technology to make a difference. 
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to deliver on shared objectives.

Our Benefits

The anticipated salary range for this role is $150,000-180,000 per year.

As a leader in redesigning behavioral health, we are walking the walk with our employee benefits. We want the experience of working at SonderMind to accelerate people’s careers and enrich their lives, so we focus on meeting SonderMinders wherever they are and supporting them in all facets of their life and work.

Our benefits include:

• A commitment to fostering flexible hybrid work
• A generous PTO policy with a minimum of three weeks off 
• Therapy coverage benefits to ensure our employees have access to the care they need
• Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage with plans to meet every need, including HSA and FSA options
• Employer-paid disability & AD&D to cover life's unexpected events. Not only that, we also cover the difference in salary for up to eight (8) weeks of short-term disability leave
• Eight weeks of paid Parental Leave  (if the parent also qualifies for STD, this benefit is in addition)
• 401K retirement plan with 100% matching on up to 4% of base salary

Application Deadline

This position will be an ongoing recruitment process and will be open until filled.

Equal Opportunity 

SonderMind does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on race, color, creed, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, religion, veteran and military status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including genetic information or characteristics), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.