Engineering Manager

About SonderMind

At SonderMind, we believe everyone deserves one personalized, connected, and effective mental health destination to take care of their mental health and well-being at any stage of life. SonderMind care encompasses everything from therapy and medication management to meditation and mindfulness exercises. Our clinicians leverage our digital tools and research to deliver increasingly high-quality care and to develop thriving practices. Combining technology and human connection, SonderMind drives better outcomes through our comprehensive approach. Learn more about SonderMind at sondermind.com or download the mobile app, available on iOS and Android. To follow the latest SonderMind news, get to know our clients, and learn about what it’s like to work at SonderMind, you can follow us on Instagram, Linkedin, and Twitter.

Why Join SonderMind?

• Engineering Autonomy & Innovation: At SonderMind, we empower our engineering teams to move fast and think big. You’ll experience a high degree of freedom and ownership – from architectural decisions to tooling – all in service of rapid innovation. We avoid red tape and embrace creative problem-solving, allowing you to experiment with new ideas in pursuit of game-changing solutions.
• AI at Our Core – “Building AI with AI”: We don’t just talk about AI; we use it every day. Our development culture is AI-driven, meaning you’ll leverage the latest AI tools and practices to supercharge productivity. (Think coding with AI pair programmers like Cursor and Windsurf, harnessing OpenAI and Anthropic’s models for development, and incorporating ML-driven automation wherever possible.) In short, we build AI with AI, giving our team a competitive edge to deliver faster and smarter.
• Mission-Driven Impact: Working here means impacting real lives at scale. Every product improvement and new feature directly helps individuals improve their mental well-being. We focus on outcomes – our data-driven approach ensures that what we build truly makes a difference. If you’re driven by purpose, you’ll find daily motivation knowing your work enables people to get better, faster.
• Pioneering Vision: We’re not content with incremental improvements; we envision a world where AI and human clinicians work hand-in-hand to provide personalized, effective care for all. Joining our team means being at the forefront of this revolution, working with the latest technologies and a bold team determined to reinvent an industry.
• Remote-First, Global Team: Collaborate with talented colleagues across the US and Europe in a remote-first environment. Our engineering organization is distributed (with teams spanning from the U.S. to Poland), which means we value transparency, asynchronous communication, and inclusive collaboration. You’ll bring together diverse perspectives to solve challenging problems in mental health care.

About the Role

We are seeking an Engineering Manager who will lead and scale a diverse, distributed engineering team in our fast-paced, AI-driven environment. In this role, you will oversee multiple engineering squads (across mobile, front-end, full-stack, and AI/ML) and drive the delivery of innovative features that enhance our mental health platform. You will partner closely with product managers, designers, and clinical experts to align technology with our mission, ensuring we build solutions that are not only technically robust and scalable, but also delightful for users and transformative for care. This is a high-impact leadership position where you’ll blend hands-on technical insight with strategic thinking, and where your guidance will directly shape the future of mental health technology.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and scale a full stack (backend, web, mobile, AI) globally distributed engineering team, fostering collaboration across time zones and driving high-impact delivery.
• Drive innovation in AI/ML-powered product development for mental health solutions, integrating cutting-edge intelligent features into a mobile platform, using LLMs, agentic workflows and home grown models.
• Champion a mobile-first execution approach, ensuring our applications provide seamless, user-centric experiences on iOS and Android devices.
• Architect and oversee robust distributed systems and scalable infrastructure as we transition from a core monolith to cloud-native microservices.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, data, and clinical teams to align engineering initiatives with business and user needs, delivering features that advance our mission.

Who You Are

Qualifications:

• You have led, inspired, and mentored diverse engineering teams, scaling talent across regions and cultivating a high-performance culture.
• You bring deep technical expertise in building scalable systems and AI/ML products – with a track record of deploying distributed architectures that perform at enterprise scale.
• You have a sharp user-first mindset, with a passion for mobile-first design and intuitive product experiences that delight customers.
• You excel at cross-functional collaboration and communication, effectively aligning engineers with designers, product managers, and other stakeholders to achieve shared goals.
• You thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, adeptly balancing quick wins with long-term strategy while maintaining quality and reliability.
• You lead by example with a hands-on approach, remaining technical enough to dive into code or architecture decisions and guide your team through complex problems when needed.

Our Benefits 

The anticipated salary range for this role is $190,000 - $220,000. Final compensation will be determined based on a variety of factors, including relevant experience, skills, education, and past performance. In addition to base salary, this position may also be eligible for a variable bonus and equity.

As leaders in redesigning behavioral health, we walk the walk with our employees' benefits. We want the experience of working at SonderMind to accelerate people’s careers and enrich their lives, so we focus on meeting SonderMinders wherever they are and supporting them in all facets of their lives and work.

Our benefits include:

• A commitment to fostering flexible hybrid work
• A generous PTO policy with a minimum of three weeks off per year
• Free therapy coverage benefits to ensure our employees have access to the care they need (must be enrolled in our medical plans to participate)
• Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage with plans to meet every need, including HSA ($1,100 company contribution) and FSA options
• Employer-paid short-term, long-term disability, life & AD&D to cover life's unexpected events. Not only that, we also cover the difference in salary for up to seven (7) weeks of short-term disability leave (after the required waiting period) should you need to use it.
• Eight weeks of paid Parental Leave (if the parent also qualifies for STD, this benefit is in addition, which allows between 8-16 weeks of paid leave)
• 401K retirement plan with 100% matching which immediately vests on up to 4% of base salary
• Travel to Denver 1x a year for annual Shift gathering
• Fourteen (14) company holidays
• Company Shutdown between Christmas and New Years
• Supplemental life insurance, pet insurance coverage, commuter benefits and more!

Application Deadline

This position will be an ongoing recruitment process and will be open until filled.

Equal Opportunity 

SonderMind does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices based on race, color, creed, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, religion, veteran and military status, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including genetic information or characteristics), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.