At Talkspace, the business problem is to design, build, and maintain technical architecture to support the company's mission of providing quality mental healthcare to over two million people, with a focus on leading a team of software engineers to architect LLM-driven workflows, implement safety and guardrail systems, and develop scalable backend and frontend components.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software development experience.
- 2+ years working with LLMs, orchestration frameworks, vector stores, or agentic systems.
- Experience designing distributed systems and building production-grade web services.
- Proficiency in backend (Node.js/Python), frontend frameworks, and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading technical initiatives.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- Experience with AI system architectures, vector databases, and tool-calling workflows.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor engineers, providing coaching, guidance, and technical support.
- Serve as the primary architect for LLM and agentic system components, including orchestration pipelines, function-calling, evaluation systems, and safety layers.
- Conduct code reviews and ensure adherence to engineering standards and best practices.
- Troubleshoot technical issues and drive solutions to complex engineering challenges.
- Oversee system maintenance, updates, and monitoring to ensure system health and reliability.
- Design scalable and maintainable AI system architectures incorporating LLMs, vector databases, and tool-calling workflows.
- Ensure responsible AI practices, including transparency, security, HIPAA compliance, and safe model behavior.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 7+ years of professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of experience in a leadership or management role.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work in a hybrid environment based in NYC.
