Published: Sun, 31 Aug 2025 20:50:54 GMT
Position: Senior Software Engineer at Lyra Health
Lyra Health is revolutionizing mental health care through the use of technology and compassionate support, helping individuals achieve emotional wellness both in and out of the workplace. We partner with top companies like Morgan Stanley, Uber, Amgen, and other Fortune 500 corporations to provide their employees and families with access to high-quality, effective mental health care. Our innovative digital platform and global network of providers have helped nearly 20 million people receive the best care and feel better, faster. Led by David Ebersman, former CFO of Facebook and Genentech, Lyra has raised over $900 million in funding.
About the Role:
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our team and help build the infrastructure and services necessary to deliver ML and generative AI-based products that have a significant impact within our organization. The ideal candidate will be passionate about taking ownership of their work, leading cross-functional projects, and providing mentorship to other team members.
At Lyra, you will:
– Collaborate with brilliant colleagues to solve complex and meaningful problems
– Make a positive social impact by supporting individuals during their most challenging moments
– Work closely with physicians, therapists, data scientists, data analysts, and product managers
This position can be based at our headquarters in Burlingame, CA, or can be performed in a hybrid or fully remote/virtual setting. Remote candidates must be located within the United States.
Key Responsibilities:
– Work with a team to develop machine learning and generative AI-powered solutions
– Build backend infrastructure to support scalable, resilient, and high-performing solutions
– Create services that expose machine learning and AI-based products
– Deploy and manage various applications in a production environment
– Code on a daily basis
Qualifications:
– 4+ years of experience delivering production-ready products
– Proficiency in Python and the ability to write high-quality code
– Experience developing RESTful APIs
– Familiarity with Protobuf messages
– Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
– Knowledge of relational and low-latency databases
– Experience with Celery
– A strong interest in working on ML/AI-based products
– A desire to learn new technologies quickly
– A passion for building systems from the ground up
– A thoughtful approach to balancing quality and deadlines in fast-paced environments
– Excellent communication skills and the ability to build consensus and alignment
– Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize and solve complex problems to drive the team and business forward
Preferred Qualifications:
– Experience developing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions
– Knowledge of setting up and maintaining vector databases
– Experience writing production code in Java or Kotlin
– Experience building solutions on cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS
– Familiarity with working with sensitive data in a healthcare environment
Lyra Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by law.
By applying for this position, you acknowledge that your personal information will be processed in accordance with the Lyra Health Workforce Privacy Notice. Through this application, we will collect personal information from you, including your name, email address, gender identity, employment information, and phone number, for the purpose of recruiting and assessing your suitability, aptitude, skills, qualifications, and interests for employment with Lyra. We may also collect information about your race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, which is considered sensitive personal information under the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and special category data under the UK and EU GDPR. Providing this information is optional and voluntary, and by providing it, you consent to Lyra processing it for the purposes described at the time of collection, such as for diversity and inclusion initiatives. If you are a California resident and would like to limit our use of this information, please use the Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information form. This information will only be retained for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, as described above. Please note that Lyra does not sell or share personal information as defined by the CPRA. If you reside outside of the United States, you may have the right to request access to, or a copy of, your personal information in a portable format; request that we delete your information from our systems; object to or restrict processing of your information; or correct inaccurate or outdated personal information in our systems. These rights may be subject to legal limitations. To exercise your data privacy rights outside of the United States, please contact [email protected]. For more information about how we use and retain your information, please see our Workforce Privacy Notice. Apply link