Tech Lead - MERN

Please note this job is not for 2070 Health.

Wysais the world's most advanced AI-based digital companion for behavioral health. We are the global tech leader in the mental health space.

We are trusted by employers, payors and healthcare providers and government agencies because we are able to provide a scalable and low cost solution.

Being an AI-based solution, Wysa overcomes the stigma and privacy concerns that often restrict people seeking help for their mental wellbeing.

Wysa is on a mission to help 50 million people with their mental wellbeing by the next decade. We are working with our partners all over the globe to bring high-quality digital mental wellbeing solutions to the ones in need.

Currently we have reached 6.5 million people and have saved 450 lives.

The Wysa AI Digital companion is our core product, around which we have a huge suite of tools, products, and programs. We use the MERN stack heavily, and python for our ML and NLP and are constantly iterating on our use of generative AI across business and end user products as well as internal devX. We also use a plethora of other technologies based on the use case, e.g. s3-athena-glue-quicksight for our business insights dashboards. Exclusively on the cloud, our servers are primarily on AWS, fronted by cloudflare.

A few numbers about scale in our various user segments

1. B2C - A Total userbase of 6Million+, spread across 100+ countries
2. B2B and Enterprise Clients - 70+ clients globally
3. B2G (Business to govt.), where Wysa is part of govt. initiatives or is offered as a service to Govt. employees - this is currently active in India, UK, and Singapore)

We build for data residency when we work with governments and organisations in regions like India, EU, and US, UK, while at the same time fulfilling our SLA's and promise of 99.9% uptime worldwide! We take pride in

1. Privacy and security by design

2. Heavily optimising our cloud and infra costs

3. Constantly innovating and leading the industry in using GenAI safely

4. Constantly evolving the way we reach our users, including building for voice, outreach over whatsapp etc.

Requirements

1. Has a total of 6+ Years of experience with at least 2-3 years in leadership role, leading a team of 4+ developers
2. You have a knack for solving problems involving providing the service to users at scale while ensuring 100% uptime
3. You are able to lead a team of developers to fulfill the organization's goals while also keeping their wellbeing as a priority
4. You are comfortable dealing with ambiguity, juggling multiple parallel projects and you have a strong sense of judgment for prioritization and tradeoffs
5. You are familiar with working with the cloud, have a deep understanding of networking and security

1. Proficiency working with MERN stack on complex applications
2. Linux Administration
3. Cloud architecture - design and ops
1. AWS & AWS cloudformation
2. Designing CI/CD systems
3. Strong understanding of secure cloud application networking and design
4. Designing data architecture
1. Experience with analytics and ETL
2. MongoDB
3. Relational database design
5. Developer experience tools.

1. Understand Product/Tech landscape come up to speed how we serve different regions and our product offerings, understand deployment and infrastructural elements and core product capabilities
2. Get to know your teams - Who the key stake holders are - people who you would be leading, understand their competencies/strengths
3. Get actively involved in the execution side of work pipelines - from requirement funnel to how its translating to a solution blueprint, leading teams towards quality execution & planning with a customer centric usable design approach. Lead one project end-to-end planning solution architecture-delivery

1. Get into fast prototyping for evaluating options and be the team champion leading from the front, unblock and drive to make ambiguous requirements clear for execution
2. Actively lead the career development process for the team
3. Manage stakeholders & foster collaborative and excellence oriented delivery culture within the teams - establish processes to achieve this goal

Benefits

1. Revolutionize traditional mental healthcare and create the world's most advanced conversational AI for behavioral health!
2. You will play a high-impact role here! We have served more than 6 million people with their mental health. As we expand our footprint in India and become localized, we expect to deliver a massive impact to the underserved populations
3. Work with mission aligned colleagues. Wysa is a team of highly qualified professionals whose life mission is to reach to the masses and help deal with day to day stressors better. If this is what gets you out of bed everyday, do reach out!
4. Work with global Industry leaders as the founders and senior team members are from IITs, IIMs, London School of Business and have held top positions across Goldman Sachs, Pearson, Microsoft leading cross functional global teams
5. We are racing to be pioneers in the GenAI mental health space. If things pan out, you may end up working first hand on some of the coolest tech possible
6. We offer flexible work hours and a culture where you are more than just your job designation.

Wysa is for you if

1. You are deeply motivated by an urge to make a change in the world
2. You are not easily fettered with the idea of quick iterations, love working hands-on with the product and design teams to deal with open-ended and frankly quite ambiguous goals
3. You are Interested in exploring new avenues and frontiers of reaching people where they are
4. You have a knack of exploring new tech and frontiers, and you are excited about the changes generative LLMs could bring to our daily life

Always good to have: Have built something of your own or were part of the founding team of a startup