Senior Front-End developer

Salary Competitive
Equity To be negotiated

Want to use JavaScript skills to help a million people overcome depression? Meru Health is an online clinic empowering people living with depression using the latest digital healthcare technologies and methods. Your role would be developing our care dashboard and this way directly contributing to making depression care more scalable and effective. We expect you to be a proactive person, proficient in JavaScript and experienced in user centric web development.


Want to use JavaScript skills to help a million people overcome depression?

Meru Health was founded in late 2015 with a vision to help and empower people living with depression with the latest digital healthcare technologies and methods. We are building Meru Health because depression is one of the TOP3 health problems of the modern world and affects more than 350 million people.

We believe in the future of data-driven and outcomes-based digital healthcare. Meru Health is funded by top international VC’s and based on a strong value base. We are building a cutting-edge digital health solution for treating depression with a therapy / behavioral intervention.


Our Values

  1. We are positive, passionate and persistent
  2. We believe in beautiful user-centric design
  3. We are transparent and honest
  4. We are driving the changes we want to see in the World


Position: Senior Front-End Developer

Your role would be developing our care dashboard and this way directly contributing to making depression care more scalable and effective. This will include coming up with and developing ways to visualize patients’ condition and progress to care professionals, automating repetitive tasks and developing ways of communication with the patients. You would be developing tools to help care professionals answer questions such as:

  • How effective is treatment per individual?
  • Highlighting patients needing the most attention and visualizing if a treatment is not working as expected
  • What actions have been especially beneficial for a patient?
  • How much time has a care professional has spent per patient? What patients and tasks are taking the most time?

In the future the system would automatically analyze patients’ data helping care professionals to direct their attention to the most critical cases, suggesting actions and potentially even automating some of them fully.

You will not be alone with these challenges but part of super committed and competent team of developers, designers, and entrepreneurs, as well as supported by a team of psychologists, therapists and scientists.

What we expect from you?

You have lots of experience with front end javascript. You get excited about building smart user interfaces that increase productivity. You enjoy taking user’s perspective and imagining optimal solutions for tasks and challenges at hand. You are interested in data visualization and/or applying machine learning to solving practical problems. You constantly spend time learning new things and are up to date with the latest technologies used in web development. You want to use your skills to help millions of people in a direct and meaningful way.

Technical requirements:

  • 5+ years of programming experience
  • deep knowledge of modern Javascript
  • experience with React.js or other similar frameworks
  • knowledge of browser capabilities and limitations
  • fluency with CSS
  • some experience with Node.js

Past experience:

  • building web applications from scratch
  • being responsible for running web applications in production
  • building deployment workflows and continuous integration setups
  • creating automated tests to optimize code quality and speed

Plus:

  • data visualization skills, for ex. using D3.js
  • using machine learning for suggesting optimal actions
  • experience with Webpack
  • using analytics tools, such as Mixpanel or Optimizely
  • managing servers and database(s)
  • mobile app development (iOS / Android)


What will you get?

  • Develop a high-quality mobile consumer service for international healthcare market
  • Practice a design centric approach: come up with solutions and quickly prototype and test them - with users and customers
  • Be part of a close knit passionate team that is determined to making an impact
  • Great colleagues and environment for professional and personal development
  • Fair salary and option package


Funny facts?

  • We hold a Kick the Shit Out session every month where we give each other brutally honest feedback and provide everyone an opportunity to grow and develop
  • We strive to spend a day each month on charity work, such as playing Christmas songs at an orphanage
  • We hold team events, such as motocross racing, wall climbing or outdoors activities every once in a while

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Working at
Meru Health

Meru Health is an online medical clinic treating depression.We envision a world in which all people have the tools they need to overcome depression.We are scientists, engineers and experienced entrepreneurs who have come together to make depression treatment accessible, effective and truly outcome-driven. Our mission is more than business, it’s personal. Our founders have lost friends and family members to depression, and we want to do everything in our power to help people who suffer. We are scientists, engineers and experienced entrepreneurs with a big vision to make mental healthcare accessible, engaging and outcome driven. We want to help humanity become more empowered and happy. We are people with strong and sound value base, and when Meru Health was founded, we wanted to incorporate our values to become the company’s values as well.

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