Project Healthy Minds · 2 hours ago
Principal Engineer
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$225K/yr - $250K/yr
10+ years expProject Healthy Minds is a mental health nonprofit applying technology to address the growing mental health crisis. The Principal Engineer will design and build the technical foundations of a data-intensive mental health services marketplace, ensuring reliable data ingestion and normalization to enhance user experiences.
Health CareMental HealthWellness
Responsibilities
Own and evolve the core technical architecture of the PHM platform, with a focus on data modeling, normalization, and performance
Design and build LLM-driven workflows to acquire, structure, and maintain production-grade data from disparate sources
Partner with external data providers to ingest data via APIs and feeds, while designing resilient systems to handle incomplete or inconsistent inputs
Define schemas, normalization strategies, and data contracts that support reliable downstream product experiences
Implement and optimize sorting, ranking, and retrieval logic to support discovery, comparison, and decision-making use cases
Ship production code regularly, working hands-on across backend and data layers
Apply modern AI tools and techniques to improve data enrichment, tagging, and internal workflows
Partner closely with Product and Design to translate ambiguous product needs into scalable technical solutions
Establish engineering standards through code reviews, documentation, and example
Partner with Legal and other stakeholders on compliance-related technical decisions
Support hiring and onboarding of additional senior engineers over time
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
Experience with ranking, retrieval, or recommendation systems
Background in marketplaces, healthcare data, or compliance-sensitive domains
Familiarity with our stack (NextJS, GCP) is helpful but not required
Benefits
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
Learning & Development opportunities, including free MasterClass subscriptions
Opportunity to attend inspiring experiences and events with thought leaders, business executives, and iconic speakers across a range of industries
Company
Project Healthy Minds
Project Healthy Minds launches to address the mental health crisis.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Phillip Schermer
Founder and CEO
Alexander Jilla
Co-Founder & Chief Financial Officer
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