Position type: Contract, to start

Location: Spokane County residency required · local / hybrid

Commitment: ~10–20 hrs/week, 8–12 month initial engagement

Compensation: $30–$40/hr, based on experience

Ithos Wellness is building North, a private, guided first step for people who need help getting their bearings and moving toward compatible support. North is not a generic wellness app. It is a behavioral health navigation tool designed around trust, fit, and follow-through.

We are looking for someone who can work inside an existing product, improve user flows, tighten AI behavior, fix what breaks, and help turn a live platform into something more reliable, useful, and scalable.

You will help improve the core North product experience and the systems that support it.

• Improve the North onboarding experience, guided chat, check-ins, and user pathways.
• Help refine AI behavior so responses feel grounded, useful, and appropriate for the context.
• Support provider matching, resource navigation, and compatibility logic.
• Fix bugs and improve reliability across the user experience.
• Help strengthen privacy, safety boundaries, product logic, and user trust.
• Work with AI-assisted development tools and existing code to ship practical improvements.
• Document what you build clearly enough that the next person can understand it.
• Help translate founder, advisor, provider, and user feedback into real product improvements.

The right person does not need to have every credential in the world. But they do need to have built real things, solved real problems, and shown they can work independently without drifting into chaos or overengineering.

• You have built real web apps, serious prototypes, or production features.
• You are comfortable with modern web development, databases, APIs, and AI-assisted development tools.
• You can work in an existing codebase without needing to rebuild everything from scratch.
• You understand that user trust matters more than clever features.
• You can communicate clearly, ask useful questions, and own your work.
• You can move quickly without being careless.
• You care about the people North is built for.

North is a live product. The work may touch frontend experience, backend logic, database structure, authentication, AI prompts, safety boundaries, provider workflows, admin tools, and analytics.

Specific tools can be learned. The more important requirement is that you understand how product systems fit together and can make responsible changes without breaking the house.

• Frontend product experience and responsive UI improvements.
• Backend routes, data flows, and application logic.
• AI prompt behavior, response quality, and guardrails.
• User accounts, access control, admin functions, and product settings.
• Provider profiles, matching logic, and resource workflows.
• Testing, verification, documentation, and deployment discipline.

What matters here

This is mission work, but it still has to be built well.

North is being built for people who may not start with therapy, may not call an EAP, and may not know what kind of support fits. Some users will come in guarded. Some will come in overwhelmed. Some will come in skeptical because other systems have already failed them.

That means the product has to be clear, steady, private, and useful. The technology cannot be a gimmick. It has to help someone take a better next step.

This role begins as a contract engagement at roughly $30–$40/hour, depending on experience, for an initial 8–12 month period. It is not currently a full-time employee position, though the relationship may grow as North grows.

Because this position is connected to Ithos Wellness's Spokane-based growth plan and grant-funded work, candidates must have a primary residence in Spokane County. Local or hybrid work is expected — this is not a fully remote national search.

Expect roughly 10–20 hours a week to start, with schedule flexibility around deep-work blocks and occasional in-person time.

Email rod@ithoswellness.com.

Include a short note about who you are, what you have built, and why this work interests you. Include links, examples, GitHub, portfolio work, product demos, or anything else that shows how you think and build.

• Tell us what you have actually built.
• Share examples of your work if you have them.
• Explain what kind of product problems you are best at solving.
• Confirm that you are available for contract work.
• Confirm that your primary residence is in Spokane County.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis; we'll follow up within [X] business days.

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