Meru Health is helping people living with depression using the latest science and mobile technology. We are building Meru Health because we want to make an effective treatment of depression widely accessible to people in need. Depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide and affects more than 300 million people (WHO).

You will be part of Meru Health’s small but skillful product development team committed to improving how depression is treated worldwide. In this position you will play a key role in product development of Meru Health platform, driving decisions related to technology, architecture, security, user experience etc. You are skilled in JavaScript and engineering and passionate about helping people suffering from depression in a concrete and measurable way.

Responsibilities

• Product development using JavaScript, React, React Native, Node.js
• Improving product development practices to ensure high quality: usability, reliability, security of Meru Health platform
• Participating in a wide array of activities, from design to development, to user feedback, to analytics
• Working as part of Product team based in Helsinki, Finland

What will you get?

• Being surrounded by positive and smart colleagues working as a self organizing team 
• Flexible working hours
• Opportunity to spend time at Meru Health San Francisco office
• Support of personal development (conferences, wellness gadgets reimbursement) 
• Weekly team breakfast 
• Fair salary and options package

Skills & Qualities

• Ability to manage complex development projects from requirements definition to delivery to gathering feedback & improving
• Ability to write clear and maintainable code in JS, HTML, CSS etc.
• Deep understanding of inner workings of the web, common architectures, development and UX patterns and best practices
• Drive to understand things on a deeper level, always seeking for the root cause of the problem or understanding the underlying need in any proposed solution
• Understanding the value of unit & integration tests, are accustomed to writing them, but are comfortable balancing between speed and test coverage depending on the requirements
• Excitement about solving big challenges in a small but skillful team

Experience

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• Setting up web servers and databases and managing them in production
• Building deployment workflows and continuous integration setups
• Working in a startup or similar highly demanding environment before