Member of Technical Staff

Job Description

Job Description

Member of Technical Staff

Blossom Health exists to solve the mental health epidemic in America by partnering with psychiatrists to expand access to affordable, timely, clinically effective mental healthcare. Our AI-native care platform is loved by hundreds of clinicians and tens of thousands of patients.

We’re a Series A company with $20M+ raised from Headline, Village Global, and the founders of General Catalyst, Flatiron Health, Sword Health, Fay, Elemy, Zip, Blank Street, Assured, Bridge, Birches Health, and Enzo Health.

The Role:

We're looking for a Member of Technical Staff to help build the foundational technology powering the next generation of psychiatric care.

You'll work directly with our Head of Engineering and a small, exceptional engineering team to design and build the systems behind Blossom's rapidly growing platform, from complex backend infrastructure and distributed systems to AI-native products and clinician-facing applications.

This isn't a traditional engineering role . You'll have meaningful ownership over technical architecture, product direction, and critical engineering decisions, with the opportunity to build systems from the ground up and see your work directly impact thousands of patients and clinicians.

We're looking for someone with exceptional engineering fundamentals, strong technical judgment, and the ambition to build and own complex systems at a high-growth startup.

Why You Should Work Here:

• Be early in a hyper-growth startup: Join a foundational engineering team and help shape the architecture, infrastructure, and products behind Blossom's next stage of growth.

• Build technically challenging systems: Solve complex engineering problems across distributed systems, backend infrastructure, AI-native applications, and healthcare workflows.

• High trust and autonomy: Work directly with engineering leadership, own critical technical decisions, and have the freedom to take ambitious ideas from concept to production.

• Talent-dense engineering team: Work alongside exceptional engineers from Meta, Apple, and AWS who bring high technical standards, intellectual curiosity, and a shared ambition to build something consequential.

• Move with speed and purpose: Ship meaningful products quickly, solve problems with real-world complexity, and see the impact of your engineering decisions firsthand.

What You'll Do:

• Build foundational engineering systems: Design, develop, and scale the core infrastructure powering Blossom's clinical, operational, and patient-facing products.

• Own complex technical challenges: Architect and implement solutions across distributed systems, backend services, APIs, data infrastructure, and application architecture.

• Build AI-native products and infrastructure: Develop intelligent workflows, automation systems, and AI-powered applications that improve how clinicians deliver care.

• Engineer scalable, reliable systems: Design for performance, availability, fault tolerance, and maintainability as the platform grows.

• Own projects end-to-end: Take technical initiatives from problem definition and architecture through implementation, deployment, and ongoing iteration.

• Solve complex healthcare workflows: Build systems supporting scheduling, clinician availability, insurance, billing, and other critical operational processes.

• Partner directly with engineering leadership: Influence architectural decisions, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and help establish engineering standards as the team scales.

• Turn ambiguity into execution: Independently identify problems, develop solutions, and ship high-quality software with speed and ownership.

You'll Be a Good Fit If:

• You have 2+ years of professional software engineering experience , ideally at a highly technical engineering organization or high-growth, venture-backed startup.

• You have exceptional software engineering fundamentals , including algorithms, data structures, system design, and software architecture.

• You're highly proficient in Python and/or TypeScript , with experience building production applications and backend services.

• You have experience designing, building, or scaling distributed systems, backend infrastructure, APIs, or complex software applications .

• You understand engineering tradeoffs involving scalability, reliability, performance, concurrency, and system complexity .

• You've demonstrated meaningful technical ownership, independently delivering complex features or systems from concept to production.

• You can navigate ambiguous technical problems, reason from first principles, and develop pragmatic, scalable solutions.

• You're comfortable working across the stack and learning unfamiliar technologies quickly.

• You thrive in fast-moving environments where engineering quality, urgency, and ownership are equally important.

• You have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• You're authorized to work in the United States.

• You're excited to work in-person in New York City, 5 days a week .

Bonus: You've worked at a top-tier technology company or high-growth, venture-backed startup , where you've owned complex distributed systems, built products from 0→1, or contributed to foundational technical architecture.

What We're Looking For:

• Highly motivated, ambitious, and capable: You want to solve difficult, meaningful engineering problems and hold yourself to an exceptionally high bar.

• Ownership mindset: You take responsibility for outcomes, not just implementation, and approach technical challenges with a founder's mentality.

• High velocity and high excellence: You move with urgency, ship consistently, and refuse to compromise on engineering quality.

• Technically rigorous: You reason from first principles, understand complex systems, and think deeply about scalability, performance, and architectural tradeoffs.

• A builder: You love creating products and systems from the ground up and take pride in seeing your work used in the real world.

• An explorer: You're energized by ambiguity, autonomy, and solving problems without an established playbook.

• Humble: You value feedback, collaborate openly, and use your strengths in service of the team.

Compensation & Benefits:

• $150,000–$220,000 base salary

• Meaningful equity ownership

• Significant growth opportunities as the company scales

• Beautiful, sunshine and snack-filled office in the heart of Flatiron, Manhattan

• Health, dental, and vision insurance

• A focus on outcomes, not hours

• Team outings, offsites, and unlimited PTO

Compensation Range: $150K - $220K