Mightier is a family-based program developed at Boston Children’s Hospital that empowers children to build emotional strength and supports the caregivers who love them. With Mightier’s innovative game system, players are able to practice keeping their “cool” while playing fun, award-winning mobile games. Three clinical trials at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Mass General have shown Mightier works as well as medications. The program has served over 25,000 families with over 10 million games played. Our mission is to empower every child to build emotional strength.

Why is this role important?

Mightier grows every day, and we are seeking a creative and detail-oriented software engineer to join our growing product and engineering team. In this role, you will help build our product as we shift from a d2c to B2B product, ensuring stability, security, and scalability. You’ll do this by joining a small team responsible for the application surrounding our customer’s family’s journey building a product you’d be proud to have your family and close friends use!

Job description:

• Work with a small team, where you’ll own collaborating with the product team in order to build out complex use cases around our customer management.
• Work with internal and external resources to accelerate product development
• Build on a modern AWS stack, architecting scalable cloud infrastructure for B2B workloads in a HIPAA-compliant environment.
• Boston-based hybrid — 2 days per week in office (Tues/Thurs)

Interview Process:

1. Resume submission
   1. Confirm you meet the listed requirements before applying. We are not able to sponsor visas or fund relocation at this time.
2. Take-home assignment
   1. A coding exercise expected to take 1–2 hours, submitted with a 3–5 minute recorded code walkthrough.
3. An in-person interview in the Boston area.
   1. Held at our Boston office. We are not able to cover travel expenses, so candidates should be locally available.

Working with us:

We are still a small team and many of us come from incredibly varied career backgrounds. You will be working and communicating with psychologists, game designers, scientists, and parents to push Mightier forward. What unites us is that we all believe in the product and the impact it has. We care about every family, and we cultivate a free and open work environment where everyone’s voice is heard.

Interested?

Email resume to: careers@mightier.com

Or apply at: https://www.mightier.com/careers/

Relevant experience and qualifications:

• 2+ years of professional full-stack software development experience.
• Strong engineering judgment to balance rapid delivery with long-term scalability.
• Ownership mindset with accountability for features in production, including testing, monitoring, alerting, and quickly addressing issues
• Curiosity and adaptability to learn new technologies and work across our stack - we currently use Typescript, React, and Python/Django.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to research and propose creative, out-of-the-box solutions.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate cross-functionally and bring ideas from concept to delivery
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
• Boston-based hybrid — 2 days per week in office (Tues/Thurs)