About the Role
MindFriend is a mental-health marketplace connecting people with verified, licensed clinicians for online therapy. This founding-team role will lead the engineering and product efforts to launch the platform and grow the team. The position requires a hands-on approach to technical challenges, focusing on reliability, security, and user experience in handling sensitive health data and live therapy sessions.
Responsibilities
- Own and close out the launch readiness bar; get MindFriend live in its first market with confidence.
- Pass an independent security review with critical findings remediated before go-live.
- Prove the full booking-to-session flow end-to-end, including every failure path, across real devices and networks.
- Turn a freelance-built platform into a maintainable, well-owned codebase with a team to match.
- Establish a sane delivery cadence and the engineering and product processes we'll scale on.
- Set the post-launch roadmap and start shipping against it.
- Make decisions with incomplete information and live with them.
- Lead a small team and a freelance bench by doing, not just directing.
Requirements
- 8+ years building software, with senior or lead engineering experience and carrying real product responsibility.
- Shipped a consumer product that takes real payments and handles sensitive personal data, to production and through real users.
- Worked in an environment with high security and data standards (health-tech, fintech, or similar).
- Ability to run a security review and implement the controls behind it.
- Operate hands-on first, lead second.
- Work directly and candidly with a non-technical founder.
- Experience as part of an early-stage or founding team.
- Experience with marketplace or telehealth.
- Experience with multi-jurisdiction products.
- Experience taking a product through SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / GDPR.
Skills
- Software engineering
- Product leadership
- Platform development
- Team building
- Reliability engineering
- Security engineering
- Data privacy
- Payment processing
- Video/audio/chat session management
- Quality assurance
- Product direction
- Roadmap planning
- Process establishment
Location
- Remote (UK/EU hours)
Work Type
- Full-time
- Remote
Experience Level
- Senior
- Lead
- Founding-team
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive cash compensation
- Equity
Benefits
- Founding-team seat
- Real authority
- Real ownership
- Mission worth the work
About the Company
- MindFriend is a mental-health marketplace connecting people with verified, licensed clinicians for online therapy.
- The platform is built and largely working, with a capable lead developer and a team.
- We handle sensitive health data and host live therapy sessions.
- We are making trustworthy mental-health support easier to find.
