About this role
Role Overview
- We're looking for our senior engineering and product leader who will take MindFriend safely to launch and build the platform, and the team, that come after.
- MindFriend is a mental-health marketplace connecting people with verified, licensed clinicians for online therapy: search, booking, payments, and live video, audio and chat sessions in one place.
- The platform is built and largely working, with a capable lead developer and a team.
- We're now bringing in the senior leader who will set the engineering bar, decide when we're ready to launch, and grow both the platform and the team from there with a level of ownership only the earliest team members ever get.
- This role carries more weight than most engineering jobs. We handle sensitive health data and host live therapy sessions, so reliability and security aren't features they are the trust the entire category depends on.
- You'll lead a small team and a freelance bench but you'll lead by doing, not just directing.
Requirements
- 8+ years building software, with senior or lead engineering experience and you've carried real product responsibility, not just executed someone else's spec.
- You've shipped a consumer product that takes real payments and handles sensitive personal data, to production and through real users.
- You've worked somewhere the security and data bar is real health-tech, fintech, or similar. You're not learning why it matters here.
- You can run a security review and stand up the controls behind it yourself, not just brief someone else to.
- Hands-on operator first, leader second: you lead through doing.
- You work directly and candidly with a non-technical founder.
- A bonus, not a requirement: you’ve been part of an early-stage or founding team before and know how to operate without much process; marketplace or telehealth experience; multi-jurisdiction products; or having taken a product through SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / GDPR.
Benefits
- A founding-team seat working directly to the founder, with real authority and real ownership of the problems that matter most.
- A product that's already built and a launch to drive, not a blank page.
- Competitive cash compensation plus equity, reflecting the seniority and ownership of the role.
- A mission worth the work making trustworthy mental-health support easier to find.