Head of Engineering & Product

Role Overview

• We're looking for our senior engineering and product leader a founding-team hire who will take MindFriend safely to launch and build the platform, and the team, that come after.
• MindFriend is a mental-health marketplace connecting people with verified, licensed clinicians for online therapy: search, booking, payments, and live video, audio and chat sessions in one place.
• This role carries more weight than most engineering jobs.
• We handle sensitive health data and host live therapy sessions, so reliability and security aren't features they are the trust the entire category depends on.
• The person who gets this right will have real authority to do it properly, and will help shape what MindFriend becomes.
• A word of honesty: this is a founding-team role at an early-stage company, which means it is hands-on. You will get into the code. You will run the QA passes yourself. You will test a video session on a bad connection at 9pm because a launch depends on it. You will make calls with incomplete information and live with them. You'll lead a small team and a freelance bench but you'll lead by doing, not just directing. If you want a purely strategic seat with people beneath you to execute, this is the wrong role. If you want to own the hardest, most consequential technical problems in the company and see them through, read on.

Requirements

• 8+ years building software, with senior or lead engineering experience and you've carried real product responsibility, not just executed someone else's spec.
• You've shipped a consumer product that takes real payments and handles sensitive personal data, to production and through real users.
• You've worked somewhere the security and data bar is real health-tech, fintech, or similar. You're not learning why it matters here.
• You can run a security review and stand up the controls behind it yourself, not just brief someone else to.
• Hands-on operator first, leader second: you lead through doing.
• You work directly and candidly with a non-technical founder.

Benefits

• A founding-team seat working directly to the founder, with real authority and real ownership of the problems that matter most.
• A product that's already built and a launch to drive, not a blank page.
• Competitive cash compensation plus equity, reflecting the seniority and ownership of the role.
• And a mission worth the work making trustworthy mental-health support easier to find.