Senior Software Engineer - Front End

Job description

Company Overview

Mantra Health is an award-winning digital mental health provider on a mission to make evidence-based care more accessible to students. We partner with colleges and universities to offer comprehensive virtual mental health services, including therapy, psychiatry, ²⁴⁄₇ crisis care, emotional wellness coaching, and self-care content.

Our technology solutions seamlessly integrate with campus health systems to enhance student well-being and improve graduation rates. Recognized as a leader in digital mental health, Mantra Health was named a Rising Star by the UCSF Digital Health Awards and won Juniper Research’s Gold Star for Best Digital Therapeutic Solution. Today, our programs support over 1,200,000 students across 150+ campuses, including Penn State, MIT, and Miami Dade College.

Opportunity for Impact

We are seeking a Sr. Front End Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in crafting intuitive, accessible, and engaging user experiences for our university-focused mental health platform. This position offers a unique blend of hands-on development and strategic technical contribution, with an emphasis on creating responsive, cross-platform mobile applications using React Native. You will ensure our front-end systems are performant, secure, scalable, and compliant with accessibility standards (WCAG/A11y), as well as regulatory requirements (HIPAA/FERPA), significantly enhancing our ability to support student mental health.

As part of a mission-driven edtech startup, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including product, design, engineering, clinical, and operations. This role provides the opportunity to significantly influence our front-end architecture, mentor less-experienced team members, drive innovation in user-centric design, and actively contribute to our vibrant and collaborative culture.

What You’ll Do

• Accessibility & Compliance Advocacy: Ensure our user interfaces meet rigorous accessibility standards (WCAG/A11y), and compliance requirements (HIPAA), proactively identifying and resolving accessibility barriers.
• Develop Exceptional User Experiences: Design, build, and maintain accessible, responsive, and intuitive cross-platform mobile interfaces primarily using React Native, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Integration with APIs & Backend Services: Collaborate with backend and product teams to seamlessly integrate APIs, optimizing front-end interactions and workflows.
• Enhance Frontend Development Workflows: Advance frontend deployment and testing practices through robust testing strategies and performance optimization.
• Mentorship & Best Practices: Lead by example in delivering high-quality, maintainable code, mentor junior engineers, advocate for best practices in frontend architecture, and promote continuous technical improvement.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work proactively with product managers, designers, engineers, and clinical stakeholders to translate requirements into outstanding technical solutions.

Who You Are

• Empathetic UX Advocate: Deeply user-centric, consistently applying empathy and thoughtful UX thinking to create intuitive, inclusive, and engaging user experiences.
• Front-end Engineering Expert: Possess 5-8+ years of experience specializing in React Native, JavaScript, TypeScript, and modern frontend frameworks.
• Accessibility Champion: Demonstrated expertise implementing robust accessibility practices (WCAG/A11y), ensuring inclusive and accessible experiences for diverse users.
• Effective System Integrator: Skilled at integrating frontend applications with backend APIs and third-party services to deliver seamless, performant user experiences.
• Proactive Problem Solver & Quality Advocate: Passionate about proactively addressing complex frontend challenges and delivering high-quality, well-tested, optimized solutions.
• Collaborative Mentor & Communicator: Adept at clearly communicating technical concepts, mentoring junior team members, and fostering a collaborative, growth-oriented team environment.
• Mission-Driven & Adaptable: Deeply aligned with improving student mental health outcomes through technology, thriving in dynamic, high-growth startup settings.
• Data-Aware Developer (Bonus): Familiarity with frontend analytics, interpreting user data insights, and optimizing interactions through data-driven decision-making.

Why Choose Mantra

• Impactful Opportunity: Directly contribute to improving mental healthcare access for hundreds of thousands of university students within a mission-driven organization.
• Professional Growth: Benefit from significant system ownership, opportunities to architect new solutions, mentorship possibilities, and exposure to senior leadership in a dynamic startup environment.
• Collaborative Culture: Join a passionate, vibrant, and dedicated team (“One Car, Many Drivers”) focused on collaboration, continuous learning, and positive impact.
• Career Advancement: Grow your skills and influence by scaling critical systems, potentially leading technical initiatives, and contributing to high-visibility projects.
• Compensation & Benefits: We offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being and professional journey.

Compensation & Benefits

Compensation: $150,000 -$170,000

Pay range may vary by location and is commensurate with experience and market rates.

At Mantra, our distributed team is our secret sauce that allows us to support our mission everyday. We’re collaborative, empathetic, and curious. We take time to celebrate our wins and learn from our mistakes. Each full-time employee at Mantra enjoys:

• Stock Options
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage for employees, spouses, and dependents
• 401(k)
• Flexible work location
• Generous PTO, sick days, jury duty days, and bereavement. Three week sabbatical and $3,000 stipend after five years of continuous full-time employment
• Inclusive parental leave, equal for all parents
• $1,000 new-parent mental wellness benefit
• Commuter card, if you commute
• Access to One Medical
• Healthcare & Dependent Care FSA

Mantra health is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.