Principal Engineer

Project Healthy Minds is a mental health nonprofit that runs like a tech startup. We are pioneering a first-of-its-kind model: applying technology to address one of the biggest social issues of our time: the growing mental health crisis. We believe in a simple but profound idea: that it should be as easy to find mental health services as it is to book a flight or a restaurant reservation.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in backend systems and data infrastructure
• Strong data modeling skills: experience designing schemas, normalization strategies, and data contracts for production systems
• Proficiency in Python or TypeScript for backend development
• Hands-on experience with data pipelines—ingesting, transforming, and normalizing data from APIs, feeds, and unstructured sources
• Familiarity with LLMs/AI tooling for data enrichment, classification, or extraction workflows (practical application, not just experimentation)
• Strong understanding of database technologies (relational and document stores) and query optimization
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP preferred) and CI/CD practices
• Comfort operating in ambiguity—translating messy product requirements into clean technical solutions
• Strong communication skills; ability to explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders
• Passion for the mental health space

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Paid holidays and generous PTO
• Life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Spring Health mental healthcare
• Commuter benefits
• Perks at Work