Senior AI/ML Backend Engineer

About the role

About Lyra Health
Lyra Health is a leading provider of evidence-based mental health care, serving more than 20 million people globally in partnership with employers and more than 100 million through health plan and partner relationships. The company has delivered more than 15 million sessions of mental health care, published more than 35 peer-reviewed studies, and delivered unmatched outcomes in terms of access, clinical effectiveness, and cost efficiency. Extensive peer-reviewed research confirms Lyra’s transformative care model helps people recover twice as fast and results in a 26% annual reduction in overall healthcare claims costs. Lyra is transforming access to life-changing mental health care through Lyra Empower, the only fully integrated, AI-powered platform combining the highest-quality care and technology solutions.

We are looking for an experienced Senior AI/ML Backend Engineer who is eager to build the backend services for our AI/ML product features that make a significant impact within the organization.  The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic about taking ownership of their work and spearheading cross-functional projects.
Lyra is for you if you
Thrive on working with brilliant teammates to solve complex, meaningful problems
Are passionate about making a social impact and supporting people at their most challenging moments
Enjoy cross-functional collaboration with therapists, data scientists, engineers and product managers
In this role, you will
Be part of a team working on building our machine learning and generative AI backend services that will support the many ML/AI product features. 
Create the necessary backend infrastructure to enable scalable, resilient and highly performant solutions
Deploy and manage various applications in production
And of course, you will be coding every day!