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Our programs guide members through every stage of the substance use spectrum, from unhealthy habits to active use disorders, delivering personalized treatment for tobacco, alcohol, opioid, cannabis, and stimulant use based on individual health, habits, genetics, and goals.\nWith Sona, our voice-first AI Mental Health Specialist, Pelago now applies that same clinically-driven model to mental health, pairing deep clinical expertise with technology to expand access without compromising care quality. We believe technology should make clinical care more precise and more human, not replace the judgment behind it.\nPelago has scaled to helping hundreds of employers and health plans and has already helped more than 750,000 members better manage their substance use. If you're passionate about AI and making an impact on the health of others, join us and make it happen!\nAbout Pelago Engineering:\nOur engineering team operates as empowered, outcome-oriented problem solvers, working in close partnership with product, design, and clinical teams to improve member outcomes at scale.\nAs AI transforms how software is built, we are intentionally evolving our development lifecycle so we spend less time on mechanical implementation and more time on system design, judgment, and impact.\nHow We Work:\nOutcome-driven: Engineers are given problems to solve, not just features to build. Success is measured by learning, impact, and outcomes-not velocity alone\nAI-native: We use AI across the SDLC to accelerate implementation, testing, and review. Engineers focus on defining intent, validating behavior, and designing resilient systems\nHigh autonomy, high accountability: Teams have real ownership over their domains. With autonomy comes responsibility for quality, safety, and results\nCross-functional by default: Engineers partner deeply with Product, Design, Data, and Clinical. Discovery, experimentation, and delivery are shared responsibilities\nQuality and safety matter: We build in a regulated, member-impacting domain. Reliability, observability, and correctness are first-class concerns\n\nWhat You’ll Do:\nInstead of task lists, anchor on ownership:\nOwn meaningful problem spaces end-to-end, from discovery through delivery and iteration\nDesign and evolve systems that support safe, scalable, AI-augmented development\nUse data and experimentation to validate whether solutions actually work\nCollaborate cross-functionally to balance member impact, clinical constraints, and technical tradeoffs\nShape how we work-our tools, processes, and culture\n\nWhat We Look For:\n We explicitly assess for empowerment:\nYou start with \"why\" before diving into \"how\"\nYou're energized by ambiguity and collaborative problem-shaping\nYou use AI to amplify your judgment and move faster on what matters\nYou think in systems and anticipate second-order effects\nYou want to own outcomes, not just ship features\nOverview of the Role:\n Pelago is building behavioral health care delivery from the ground up - AI-native, outcome-oriented, and built for a domain where what you ship has direct consequences for member health. Product Engineers own meaningful problems end-to-end: from discovery through production and iteration, in close partnership with product, design, data, and clinical stakeholders. The hire we're looking for is technically strong enough to ship across the stack, fluent enough with AI tooling to move fast, and grounded enough to make sound trade-offs in an environment where member safety, privacy, and reliability matter as much as speed.\n\nIn This Role You Will:\nOwn meaningful product areas end-to-end - from problem framing and prototype through production rollout and iteration.\nPartner deeply with product, design, data, and clinical teams to shape solutions that improve member outcomes and business results.\nBuild and evolve secure, well-tested, observable software across backend, frontend, and data surfaces.\nUse data, experimentation, and user feedback to validate whether shipped solutions are working, and drive iteration when they're not.\nOperate autonomously in ambiguous environments, communicating proactively across globally distributed teams and functions.\nMake sound trade-offs across speed, safety, technical quality, and maintainability in a regulated environment.\nImprove Pelago's engineering system: AI-native development practices, testing, documentation, knowledge sharing, and review quality.\nThe Background We're Looking For:\nStrong production experience building product software in a startup or scale-up environment.\nExcellent TypeScript/Node capability; comfortable working across APIs, services, data and cloud infrastructure.\nStrong product sense: able to start from the user or business problem, not just the implementation.\nComfortable operating autonomously in ambiguous environments and making sound trade-offs with incomplete information.\nSolid testing, observability, and reliability instincts.\nFluent with AI-augmented engineering workflows while maintaining human judgment and QA discipline.\nNice-to-have skills\nExperience in healthcare, digital health, or safety-sensitive regulated software.\nExperience with event-driven systems, serverless AWS, relational database design, and infrastructure as code.\nExperience with experimentation, analytics, and growth/product instrumentation.\nExperience contributing to both backend and user-facing product surfaces.\nExperience building products from 0 to 1 in an early-stage environment\nAt this time, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position. \nPlease note that Pelago is dedicated to providing accommodations to candidates upon request. If you need accommodations at any point throughout the interview process, please reach out to your recruiter.\nBefore you apply, see how we build.\nWe write about our technical decisions, product philosophy, and the real challenges of scaling behavioral health. 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