Technology Lead for Backend Services and

**About Koa Health**

Against the backdrop of decades of rising demand, mental health has never been more important. The Covid pandemic has led to a four-fold increase in mental disorders around the world, impacting individuals, companies, and communities. With no increase in the supply of clinicians, tens of millions of people are stranded today without access to care. Today, we simply don't have enough mental health clinicians to meet demand. Koa Health aims to solve the gap between demand and supply with a unique human-digital hybrid approach, built upon the best digital technology in the literature. Koa's digital assets deliver the highest quality care, measured through engagement, program completion, patient and clinician satisfaction, and clinical efficacy. Critically, Koa technology substantially increases clinician productivity, allowing our precious clinicians to treat more people. With more than fifty papers in the literature, twelve clinical trials, 26 patents, and broad and deep clinical networks in place, we have just launched Koa Care 360 - a uniquely scalable and profitable mental health care service.

Having secured a successful and oversubscribed Series A funding totaling €30m (ca.$36M) in October 2020 and additional €20m funding in May 2022, we are currently closing our Series B round of investment, with €12M secured from our existing investors. You can read more about Koa Health on our website here. There has never been a more critical moment for the work that we're leading at Koa Health. And this is where you come in

**Your New Role**
- Lead a team focused on operating, improving, and customizing systems for activating new clients in collaboration with commercial teams.
- Demonstrate leadership by excelling as a software engineer while coaching and mentoring 2-3 senior engineers.
- Support pre-sales technical consultancy with clients, offering expertise in integration and customization. Develop rapid prototypes and proof-of-concepts for seamless integration with the product backlog.
- Take responsibility for designing, implementing, customizing, and evolving the overall structure of backend systems to ensure scalability, resiliency, and maintainability.
- Oversee database design, API development, server-side logic, and optimization. Select appropriate technologies for backend infrastructure, prioritizing performance and industry best practices.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, including product managers, commercial teams, frontend developers, and the platform team, to align backend architecture with overall technology goals.
- Provide guidance to the development team, ensuring implemented solutions align with the overall architecture.
- Focus on designing scalable systems capable of handling increased loads and performance requirements.
- Participate proactively in team technical meetings and discussions.
- Implement new features, refactor code, and address issues for any of our products.
- Support the definition of integration and end-to-end tests for components and modules.
- Architect technical solutions based on our product portfolio, integrating and developing new components and services to activate customers.
- Write comprehensive technical documentation.

**About You**
- Comfortable with, and adaptable to, a start-up environment with high levels of ambiguity.
- Sense of ownership/accountability for the success of the company.
- Work both independently and collaboratively as a team member or leading others, actively participating in code reviews.
- Motivation for solving customers problems and delivering value to customers at a fast pace
- Responsible for driving the technological decisions that make great our products and solutions, collaborate with different product teams, and provide technical guidance to requirements of the business.
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency, customer satisfaction and the business value.
- Proven record of working with cloud-based architectures and delivering software solutions to customers is a big plus.
- Defining, designing and owning API contracts made for internal and external stakeholders
- Quickly create prototypes and integrate existing systems.
- Provide technical expertise to clients and clearly communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Be able to understand our technical stack, products and solutions and propose continuous improvements
- Understanding of AWS, Serverless architectures and Amazon's development ecosystem is a must

**Desired Relevant Experience**
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science.
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing systems in mobile and web apps is a great plus.
- Hands-on experience with NodeJS + TypeScript for the backend is a must. Running on a Kubernetes infrastructure in the Cloud. Flutter, Angular or React is a plus
- Prove experience leading other engineers is a big plus.
- Experience dealing