Tech Lead: Senior Software Engineer, Web (Full Stack)

Calm; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 163,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consumer mental health company is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to lead their web platform development. This role requires expertise in React, Next.js, and Node.js, along with 5+ years of experience in a fast-paced environment. The position offers competitive compensation ranging from $163,400 to $242,000, depending on location and qualifications.

Benefits

Equity

Comprehensive benefits

401k

Flexible time off

Qualifications

• 5+ years of related experience
• Experience in a fast-paced, agile environment
• Excellent communication skills

Responsibilities

• Serve as the hands-on tech lead for Calm’s direct-to-consumer web platform
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and develop specifications
• Design, develop, and maintain full-stack systems

Skills

React

Next.js (App Router, SSR/ISR/SSG)

Node.js

Typescript

Backend API design

End-to-end analytics pipeline ownership

A/B Testing

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS / GCP / GKE

Job description

Overview

About Calm: Calm is a leading consumer mental health company on a mission to support everyone on every step of their mental health journey. Our flagship app is #1 in its category with over 180 million downloads, available in seven languages across 190 countries. Calm also offers Calm Health, through employers, health plans and providers to expand access to mental health and sleep support. Calm supports more than 3,500 organizations and reaches over 17 million covered lives through Calm Health. We have been recognized as TIME100 Most Influential Company and one of Fast Company’s Brands That Matter.

Learn more at calm.com.

What We Do

We build Calm’s product, guide Calm’s analysis, secure Calm’s data, and operate the platforms that underpin it all. We’re product-minded, team-oriented, and committed to meeting everyone where they’re at on their mental health journey. We work in fast-moving, small pods and, as an Android Engineer, you will gather technical requirements, design and publish technical specs of innovative systems, and own building and releasing them into production.

We are hiring remote workers for this role in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City, or Minneapolis areas. At this time, only candidates in these locations will be considered.

What You’ll Do

As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer on Calm’s Growth Engineering team, you will serve as the hands-on tech lead and primary system owner for Calm’s direct-to-consumer web platform. You will work closely with designers, product managers, and customers to ensure that our products are reliable, performant, and secure. Specifically, you will:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, define project scope, and develop technical specifications
• Design, develop, and maintain full-stack systems that are reliable, scalable, and secure for feature completeness
• Lead development and implementation of complex frontend features and services, collaborating cross-functionally with client engineers to ensure smooth development and deployment process
• Write high-quality, well-documented, and easily maintainable code that adheres to industry standard best-practices
• Ensure high test coverage for all code, including unit and integration tests
• Implement frontend features with instrumentation and monitoring to detect system errors and performance issues
• Stay up-to-date on the latest frontend technologies and trends
• Develop, mentor and train software engineers
• Demonstrates a proactive mindset and strong sense of ownership by anticipating challenges, taking initiative, and driving projects to completion with minimal oversight

Who You Are

• Must have technical skills include:
  • React
  • Next.js (App Router, SSR/ISR/SSG)
  • Node.js
  • Typescript
  • Backend API design
• Experience with the following languages/technologies/frameworks (or equivalents):
  • End-to-end analytics pipeline ownership (Amplitude, Segment, Google Tag Manager)
  • A/B Testing
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • AWS / GCP / GKE
• Proven experience working effectively in a fast-paced, agile environment as part of a collaborative team
• Willingness and enthusiasm to learn new technologies and tackle challenging problems
• Experience providing accurate high-level estimates based on complexity and consistently delivering on time and with quality
• Consistently deliver on commitments through disciplined estimates and task breakdowns
• Proficiency in writing unit and integration tests in a CI/CD environment
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey technical solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Provide high-quality code reviews centered on code quality and mentoring
• Ability to partner with leads across products to leverage institutional knowledge to solve complex problems
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure

Nice to Have

• Past experience building apps in highly controlled industries, i.e., healthcare
• Experience or deep interest in LLM-powered product development (Amazon Bedrock, OpenAI, Claude, retrieval-augmented generation, multimodal flows, or voice/audio tooling)

Minimum Requirements

• This role typically requires 5 years of related experience

Calm uses a geographic pay model that determines salaries based on the location where an employee lives. For this position, the base pay ranges across Calm’s pay tiers is as follows: $163,400 - $242,000. The base pay range represents the low and high ends of Calm’s salary range for this position. Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range. Exact salary will ultimately depend on multiple factors, which include the successful candidate\'s geographic location, skills, experience, and other qualifications. Calm uses employee zip code to determine which pay range applies. This role is also eligible for equity + comprehensive benefits + 401k + flexible time off.

Calm may incorporate artificial intelligence technology to support the application review process, but rest assured that human reviewers are involved in all stages of the hiring process.

Calm is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities, including disabled veterans. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or interview process, please contact Calm’s Recruiting team at [e-mail]. All accommodation requests will be handled confidentially and assessed on a case-by-case basis.

We believe that mental health is health, and every person should be considered in the discussion. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace, committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

Calm is deeply committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We strive to create a mindful and respectful environment where everyone can bring their authentic self to work, and experience a culture that is free of harassment, racism, and discrimination.

Employment offers are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check. Roles which require access to certain types of information may also require the successful completion of a drug screening.

FOR US BASED POSITIONS: Calm participates in e-verify. E-verify provides the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

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