About Blackbird Health
Blackbird Health is clinician-founded, owned, and operated by dedicated professionals. We believe that providing the best care for children starts with building the best possible team. We deliver virtual and in-person mental health services across Pennsylvania, Virginia, and New Jersey—and we’re growing into new markets in 2026.
At Blackbird, we take a whole-child approach, looking at how the brain, body, and behavior interact to address the root causes of challenges, not just the symptoms. Every role matters here, and you’ll join a collaborative, supportive, and innovative team that’s shaping the future of pediatric mental health care. If you’re passionate about helping children and families while growing your career, Blackbird is the place to make an impact. Comment end
Join us and help change mental health care for children for the better!
Position Summary
Blackbird Health is looking to hire a Product Engineer—a role we define as a founder-in-residence for our engineering teams. You are not just a developer who picks up tickets; you are a product thinker who writes world-class code. Sitting at the intersection of Engineering, Product, and Design, you will own features from the back of the napkin idea to production deployment and user feedback.
This role is for a Senior Engineer on the cusp of Principal level who wants to exercise their product and program management muscles. You will work directly with clinical stakeholders to define the what and the why, then architect and build the how. If you are a former founder, a technical PM who misses coding, or an engineer who is tired of building the wrong things, this role is for you.
What makes you, you:
- Product-Minded Builder: You don't wait for a spec. You ask, Who is this for? and What problem are we solving? before writing a single line of code.
- Full-Stack Polymath: You are as comfortable discussing database schema design as you are tweaking CSS animations or setting up analytics events.
- Ownership Extremist: You view it works on my machine as a failure. You own the outcome, not just the output.
- Communication Bridge: You speak Doctor, Designer, and Engineer fluently, translating clinical needs into technical specifications.
- Pragmatic Perfectionist: You know when to ship a v1 to get feedback and when to build robust, scalable architecture for the long haul.
How you'll make an impact:
- End-to-End Feature Ownership: Lead the development of complex features (e.g., a new intake workflow or provider dashboard) from concept to launch.
- Product Definition: Collaborate with the Product & Engineering leadership to define requirements, user flows, and success metrics. You _are_ the Product Manager for your scope.
- Technical Architecture: Design scalable, maintainable full-stack solutions (React, Node.js, Python) that integrate seamlessly with our EHR and AI services.
- Program Management: Manage the timeline and delivery of your projects, coordinating across design, clinical ops, and other engineering squads.
- User Feedback Loops: Watch clinicians use your software, look at the data, and iterate rapidly. You are responsible for the success of the feature, not just the code.
- Mentorship: Elevate the team's product sense, teaching junior engineers how to think about user value and business impact.
The basics you'll need:
- 8+ years of full-stack engineering experience, with a track record of shipping complex web/mobile applications from scratch.
- Principal Level Technical Depth: Ability to architect systems, choose the right tools, and debug complex production issues independently.
- Product/Program Experience: Demonstrated experience managing projects, defining roadmaps, or working in a role where you had significant product influence (e.g., Founder, Technical PM).
- Modern Stack Proficiency: Expert in React/TypeScript, Node.js/Python, and cloud infrastructure (GCP, CDN, IAP).
- Data Fluency: Comfortable using SQL or analytics tools (Tableau, Snowflake, Looker, Databricks) to answer your own questions about user behavior.
Nice to have:
- Experience as a Founder or early employee at a startup.
- Background in Design/UX (Figma skills are a plus).
- Experience in Healthcare/Health Tech, understanding clinical workflows or FHIR data models.
- Experience with LLM/AI integration into user-facing products
Why Blackbird is unique:
- Frontier Technology: We are building an AI-native operating system for healthcare, not just another telemedicine app.
- High Autonomy: As a Product Engineer, you have the freedom to define the solution, not just implement it.
- Leadership Impact: You will report directly to technology executives and be a key voice in company-wide strategic decisions.
- Flexible schedule – set your own hours
- Supportive work culture
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision coverage (available on day 1 of employment)
- 401k (with a company match)
- Employer-paid life insurance coverage
- Generous paid time off
- Opportunities for career growth
- Final compensation determined based on experience
Join us!
To raise the standard of pediatric mental health care through accurate understanding and precise treatment that reflect how each child’s brain, body, and behavior work together.
“It's so rare to find comprehensive care like this---from testing to therapy to med management (and more)--all in one place. In addition, the school advocacy support we receive is unprecedented. We no longer feel like we are managing things alone.”
Fostering an inclusive environment:
Blackbird is committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and belonging. We are able to grow and learn better together with a diverse team of employees. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs. Blackbird provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact us at [email protected] so we can support you.
Our patient support team is busy helping children and families, please do not call or email them about your application — this helps us process your application more efficiently.
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