Sr. Software Engineer I, Frontend

About the Company:

Octave is a modern behavioral health practice creating a new standard for care delivery that’s both high-quality and accessible. With in-person and virtual clinics in multiple states, the company offers evidence-based individual, couples, and family therapy, while pioneering relationships with payers to make care more affordable through insurance. By raising the bar on how care is delivered and how providers are supported, we are building a sustainable system that values equity, affordability, and effectiveness.

About the Role:

Octave is seeking a Frontend Engineer with 5+ years of experience to build engaging, scalable, and performant user interfaces for clients seeking care, providers offering care, and operational teams. You will focus on developing the frontend of our web applications using Next.js (React), collaborating closely with designers, product managers, and backend engineers. We are a small but growing team working primarily remotely, building tools that directly impact the mental health care experience.

Responsibilities Include:

• Lead the development of highly responsive user interfaces using React, Next.js, and CSS.
• Architect and design scalable frontend solutions with modular, reusable, and maintainable code.
• Drive performance optimization, ensuring fast-loading, secure, and high-performing applications.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex frontend issues using advanced debugging techniques.
• Conduct thorough code reviews, enforcing best practices and coding standards.
• Establish and maintain comprehensive technical documentation for frontend systems.
• Stay current with industry trends, evaluating emerging technologies for potential adoption.
• Work closely with product managers, UX designers, and cross-functional teams to define and execute the product vision.
• Collaborate with backend engineers to integrate frontend interfaces with REST and GraphQL APIs.
• Mentor and guide junior frontend engineers through pairing, design/code reviews, and technical knowledge sharing.
• Participate in technical discussions, design reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Participate in on-call rotation for live-site troubleshooting.
• Take end-to-end ownership of frontend features, from concept to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Independently identify technical challenges and proactively propose solutions.
• Co-own larger projects and fully own components within your domain.
• Ensure all frontend deliverables align with strategic objectives in the healthtech space.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years building scalable, maintainable, and performant frontend applications.
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading frontend technical discussions.
• Familiarity with integrating frontend applications with backend services via REST and GraphQL APIs.
• Experience in a cloud-based production environment.
• Strong experience in developing and deploying with React.
• Experience with continuous delivery and troubleshooting production code.
• Experience working with healthcare, healthcare technology, and clinical staff, or other regulated industries.
• Expert-level proficiency in CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Strong experience with React, Next.js, and modern web technologies (JSON, HTTP2, WebSockets).
• Experience building responsive, accessible, and high-performance web applications.
• Familiarity with frontend testing, automated testing, and continuous delivery.
• Comfortable collaborating with engineers, clinical staff, and operations to solve open-ended problems.
• Interest in mission-driven work in healthcare or other regulated industries.

Octave's Company Values:

The below values drive our day-to-day operations.

• We’re human beings first. We operate with empathy and kindness – with our clients, with our collaborators, and with ourselves.
• People deserve better than status quo. We’re willing to tackle the intractable problems, no matter how big, because someone should. We ask big questions, we craft big solutions, and we challenge ourselves and others to make it happen.
• No bystanders. No stars. No tourists. Each person has been selected to be here, and with that comes a responsibility to bring your expertise, share your ideas, and help make this company better.
• Partnership paves the path ahead. We don’t operate in a silo, internally or externally. To transform the system, we believe in working with others to create something bigger, better, and stronger.
• Quality is crucial at scale. Quality is core to our business, and we refuse to sacrifice it as we grow.
• Progress is a process. In the pursuit of progress, we iterate, reflect, learn, adjust – and always leave things better than we found them.
• There are people behind every data point. We recognize that numbers tell only one part of the story, and we also do the work to understand impacts at the individual level.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to frequently communicate with others through virtual meeting applications such as Zoom and Google Meet.
• Must be able to observe and communicate information on company provided laptop.
• Move up to 10 pounds on occasion.
• Must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.

Compensation:

Octave is committed to pay equity. To maintain our commitment to pay equity, Octave will follow Pay Transparency regulations on all open job postings. Current Pay Transparency laws require companies to include a position's salary or hourly wage range (not including bonuses or equity-based compensation) in any internal or external job posting. This requirement extends to job postings published by a third party at an employer's request.

Octave will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with Octave’s legal duty to furnish information.

Starting pay for qualified applicants will depend on a combination of job-related factors, which may include education, training, experience, location, business needs, or market demands. The expected salary range for this role is set forth below and this range may be modified in the future.

The salary range for zone 1 (all states, excluding those in zone 2 or zone 3, and D.C.) is $142,600 - $153,100.

The salary range for zone 2 (CO, HI, MD, RI) is $156,900 - $168,400.

The salary range for zone 3 (AK, CA, CT, MA, NJ, NY, WA) is $164,000 - $174,000.

All zones are eligible for equity in the form of stock options.

Additionally, this position is eligible for the following benefits: company sponsored life insurance, disability and ADD plans. Voluntary benefits such as 401k retirement, medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, dependent care and commuter/parking options are also available. Octave offers generous Paid Time Off as well as paid parental leave benefits.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.