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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026) on Friday January 02, 2026 @02:22PM (#46468311)
Spill (https://www.spill.chat/) | Senior I Product Engineer (£84-101k) Senior II Backend Engineer (£108-121k) | London, UK (HQ) | ONSITE | Full-time

Our mission is to make talk therapy free at the point of use for as many people as possible. Right now, we're doing this by selling a mental health support product to businesses. We're a small product-focused company and were cashflow positive in 2025.

If you're interested in the mission and one of the roles, email calvin[at]spill[dot]chat with your CV

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025) on Friday May 02, 2025 @04:15AM (#43867375)
Spill | https://www.spill.chat/ | Engineering Lead | Full time | ONSITE | London

Spill supports employees with their mental health by providing access to next-day therapy and counselling sessions. We work with 600 small businesses across the UK and deliver 3,000 therapy sessions monthly (paid for by the company).

We're a small company - 9 FTEs.

Tech: Typescript, React, Node.js

What you'll do: - set technical direction - write code that improves our counsellor, employee and employer web apps - line manage 5 software engineers

Salary: £110-150k

Email calvin at Spill dot chat to learn more

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024) on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @03:49PM (#41713329)
Spill (https://www.spill.chat/) | Fullstack Engineer (£65-80k) | London, UK (HQ) | ONSITE | Full-time

Our aim is to make counselling and therapy free at the point of use for as many people as possible. We do this by selling a mental health support product to businesses.

We're a small product-focused company, we don't employ any salespeople, and we are cashflow positive.

We're hiring a Fullstack Engineer into our product and engineering team of 8.

email calvin[at]spill[dot]chat for a more thorough job spec

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024) on Monday September 02, 2024 @12:45PM (#41426881)
Spill (https://www.spill.chat/) | Fullstack Engineer (£65-80k) | London, UK (HQ) | ONSITE | Full-time

Our aim is to make counselling and therapy free at the point of use for as many people as possible. We do this by selling a mental health support product to businesses.

We're a small product-focused company, we don't employ any salespeople, and we are cashflow positive.

We're hiring a Fullstack Engineer into our product and engineering team of 8.

email calvin[at]spill[dot]chat for a more thorough job spec

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024) on Thursday August 01, 2024 @03:47PM (#41132831)
Spill (https://www.spill.chat/) | Fullstack Engineer (£65-80k) | London, UK (HQ) | ONSITE | Full-time

Our aim is to make counselling and therapy free at the point of use for as many people as possible. We do this by selling a mental health support product to businesses.

We're a small product-focused company, we don't employ any salespeople, and we are cashflow positive.

We're hiring a Mid-Level Fullstack Engineer into our product and engineering team of 8.

email calvin[at]spill[dot]chat for a more thorough job spec

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024) on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @10:28AM (#40857048)
Spill (https://www.spill.chat/) | Fullstack Engineer (£65-80k) | London, UK (HQ) | ONSITE | Full-time

Our aim is to make counselling and therapy free at the point of use for as many people as possible. We do this by selling a mental health support product to businesses.

We're a small product-focused company, we don't employ any salespeople, and we are cashflow positive.

We're hiring a Mid-Level Fullstack Engineer into our product and engineering team of 8.

email calvin[at]spill[dot]chat for a more thorough job spec

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024) on Monday June 03, 2024 @11:21AM (#40563559)
Spill (https://www.spill.chat/) | Fullstack Engineer (£65-80k) | London, UK (HQ) | ONSITE | Full-time

Our aim is to make counselling and therapy free at the point of use for as many people as possible. We do this by selling a mental health support product to businesses.

We're a small product-focused company, we don't employ any salespeople, and we are cashflow positive.

We're hiring a Mid-Level Fullstack Engineer into our product and engineering team of 8.

email calvin[at]spill[dot]chat for a more thorough job spec

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024) on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @01:59PM (#40226839)
Spill (https://www.spill.chat/) | Fullstack Engineer (£65-80k) | London, UK (HQ) | ONSITE | Full-time

Our aim is to make counselling and therapy free at the point of use for as many people as possible. We do this by selling a mental health support product to businesses.

We're hiring a Mid-Level Fullstack Engineer into our product and engineering team of 8.

We're a small product-focused company, we don't employ any salespeople, and we are cashflow positive.

email calvin[at]spill[dot]chat for a more thorough job spec

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024) on Monday April 01, 2024 @05:21PM (#39899506)
Spill (https://www.spill.chat/) | Fullstack Engineer (£65-80k) | London, UK (HQ) | ONSITE | Full-time

Our aim is to make counselling and therapy free at the point of use for as many people as possible. We do this by selling a mental health support product to businesses.

We're hiring a Mid-Level Fullstack Engineer into our small product and engineering team of 8.

We're a small product-focused company, we don't employ any salespeople, and we are cashflow positive.

email calvin[at]spill[dot]chat for a more thorough job spec

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024) on Thursday February 01, 2024 @02:39PM (#39220241)
Spill (https://www.spill.chat/) | Fullstack Engineer (£65-80k) | London, UK (HQ) | ONSITE | Full-time

Our aim is to make counselling and therapy free at the point of use for as many people as possible. We do this by selling a mental health support product to businesses.

We're hiring a Mid-Level Fullstack Engineer into our small product and engineering team of 10.

We're a small product-focused company, we don't employ any salespeople, and we are almost cashflow positive.

email calvin[at]spill[dot]chat for a more thorough job spec

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024) on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @02:13PM (#38845693)
Spill (https://www.spill.chat/) | Senior Frontend Engineer (£80-100k) Mid-Level Fullstack Engineer (£65-75k) Mid-Level Devops/SRE (£65-75k) | London, UK (HQ) | ONSITE | Full-time Our aim is to make counselling and therapy free at the point of use for as many people as possible. We do this by selling a mental health support product to businesses.

We're hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer and a Mid-Level Fullstack Engineer and an SRE/Devops engineer into our small product and engineering team of 10.

We're a small product-focused company, we don't employ any salespeople, and we are almost (£10k away) cashflow positive.

email calvin[at]spill[dot]chat for a more thorough job spec

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023) on Friday December 01, 2023 @03:12PM (#38491667)
Spill (https://www.spill.chat/) | Senior Frontend Engineer (£80-100k) Mid-Level Fullstack Engineer (£65-75k) Mid-Level Devops/SRE (£65-75k) | London, UK (HQ) | ONSITE | Full-time

Our aim is to make counselling and therapy free at the point of use for as many people as possible. We do this by selling a mental health support product to businesses.

We're hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer and a Mid-Level Fullstack Engineer and an SRE/Devops engineer into our small product and engineering team of 10.

We're a small product-focused company, don't employ any salespeople, and are almost cashflow positive.

email calvin[at]spill[dot]chat for a more thorough job spec

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @12:01PM (#38100165)
Spill (https://www.spill.chat/) | Senior Frontend Engineer & Senior Fullstack Engineer | London, UK (HQ) | £84-100k | ONSITE | Full-time

Our aim is to make counselling and therapy free at the point of use for as many people as possible. We do this by selling a mental health support product to businesses.

We're hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer and a Senior Fullstack Engineer into our small product and engineering team of 10.

You'll be expected to take responsibility for delivering thoughtful features for our customers and share responsibility for architectural decisions on the Frontend.

email calvin[at]spill[dot]chat for a more thorough job spec

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023) on Monday October 02, 2023 @02:36PM (#37742503)
Spill (https://www.spill.chat/) | Senior Frontend Engineer & Senior Fullstack Engineer | London, UK (HQ) | £84-100k | ONSITE 2 days per week | Full-time

Our aim is to make counselling and therapy free at the point of use for as many people as possible. We do this by selling a mental health support product to businesses.

We're hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer and a Senior Fullstack Engineer into our small product and engineering team of 10.

You'll be expected to take responsibility for delivering thoughtful features for our customers and share responsibility for architectural decisions on the Frontend.

email calvin[at]spill[dot]chat for a more thorough job spec

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2023) on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:04PM (#36958855)
Spill (https://www.spill.chat/) | Senior Frontend Engineer & Lead Product Designer | London, UK (HQ) | ONSITE 1-2 days | Full-time

Our aim is to make counselling and therapy free at the point of use for as many people in the word as possible. We do this by selling a mental health support product to businesses.

We're hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer and a Lead Product Designer into our small product and engineering team of 10.

For the FE roles you'll be expected to take responsibility for delivering thoughtful features for our customers and share responsibility for architectural decisions on the Frontend.

For the Lead Product Designer role you'll be expected to bring a new level of thoughtfulness to the Spill product.

email calvin[at]spill[dot]chat for a more thorough job specs

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023) on Monday July 03, 2023 @11:51AM (#36574660)
Spill (https://www.spill.chat/) | Senior Frontend Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer & Lead Product Designer | London, UK (HQ) | ONSITE 1-2 days | Full-time

Our aim is to make counselling and therapy free at the point of use for as many people in the word as possible. We do this by selling a mental health support product to businesses.

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineers and a Lead Product Designer into our small product and engineering team of 10.

For the SWE roles you'll be expected to help deliver thoughtful features for our customers and share responsibility for architectural decisions.

For the Lead Product Designer role you'll be our first full-time product designer hire and will be expected to bring a new level of thoughtfulness to the Spill product.

email calvin[at]spill[dot]chat for a more thorough job specs

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023) on Thursday June 01, 2023 @02:36PM (#36155408)
Spill (https://www.spill.chat/) | Senior Frontend Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer & Head of Engineering | London, UK (HQ) | ONSITE 1-2 days | Full-time

Our aim is to make counselling and therapy free at the point of use for as many people in the word as possible. We do this by selling a mental health support product to businesses.

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineers and Head of Engineering into our small product and engineering team of 10.

For the SWE roles you'll be expected to help deliver thoughtful features for our customers and share responsibility for architectural decisions.

For the HoE role you'll take over from the founder as our first engineering manager and help set product and engineering direction at Spill.

email calvin[at]spill[dot]chat for a more thorough job specs

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023) on Monday May 01, 2023 @11:44AM (#35774468)
Spill (https://www.spill.chat/) | Senior Software Engineer & Head of Engineering | London, UK (HQ) | REMOTE (UK) | Full-time Our aim is to make counselling and therapy free at the point of use for as many people in the word as possible. We do this by selling a mental health support product to businesses.

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer and Head of Engineering into our small product and engineering team of 10.

For the SWE role you'll be expected to help deliver thoughtful features for our customers and share responsibility for architectural decisions.

For the HoE role you'll take over from the founder as our first engineering manager and help set product and engineering direction at Spill.

email calvin[at]spill[dot]chat for a more thorough job spec

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023) on Monday April 03, 2023 @12:48PM (#35427109)
Spill (https://www.spill.chat/) | Senior Software Engineer & Head of Engineering | London, UK (HQ) | REMOTE (EU) | Full-time

Our aim is to make counselling and therapy free at the point of use for as many people in the word as possible. We do this by selling a mental health support product to businesses.

We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer and Head of Engineering into our small product and engineering team of 10.

For the SWE role you'll be expected to help deliver thoughtful features for our customers and share responsibility for architectural decisions.

For the HoE role you'll take over from the founder as our first engineering manager and help set product and engineering direction at Spill.

email calvin[at]spill[dot]chat for a more thorough job spec

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023) on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @12:12PM (#34984944)
Spill (https://www.spill.chat/) | Senior Backend Engineer | London, UK (HQ) | REMOTE (EU) | Full-time

Our aim is to make counselling and therapy free at the point of use for as many people in the word as possible. We do this by selling a mental health support product to businesses.

We're hiring a senior backend engineering into our small product and engineering team of 9. You'll be the joint most senior backend engineer and share responsibility for

email calvin[at]spill[dot]chat for a more thorough job spec

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2021) on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @11:57AM (#27356547)
Spill | Senior/Principle Software Engineer | UK/London/Remote in Europe | https://www.spill.chat/

Spill offers employees free, easy access to therapy.

You will be joining an engineering team of 4 working with Node/React/PostgreSQL. You will help shape the engineering culture and work on projects such as (i) allowing users to prepare in advance of their therapy sessions, (ii) re architecting tables to support additional features or (iii) implementing a system that better matches users with therapists.

If your interested, you can email me on calvin at spill.chat

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021) on Thursday April 01, 2021 @12:19PM (#26662526)
Spill | Senior and Principle Engineer | Remote (UK+/-3) | https://www.spill.chat/ Spill is a mental health company that offers free access to emotional support to employees. We work with over 200 companies including Typeform, Depop and Bulb and currently deliver over 1,000+ hours of therapy each month.

Our product is accessed by over 10,000 people and shapes the companies we work with and their culture.

Technologies we use:

  * TypeScript + JavaScript + React
  * Postgres
  * Node + Express
You can find our job descriptions + application form at: https://www.notion.so/spill/Careers-at-Spill-93c02882604b4b3...
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021) on Monday March 01, 2021 @01:45PM (#26306473)
Spill | London, UK | Full-time | Remote atm

We (Spill https://spill.chat) make a Slack app that companies pay a monthly subscription for, allowing their employees to access mental health support. We work with 150+ companies including Bulb, Typeform and Depop and currently facilitate over 1,000 hours of therapy each month.

We are a technical bunch and are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team of 12.

Stack: Javascript, Node, React, GraphQL, PostgreSQL

Salary: £80k Equity: 0.3-0.5%

Please contact calvin at spill.chat if you're interested

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019) on Monday July 01, 2019 @02:21PM (#20328198)
Spill | Software Developer | London, UK | ONSITE | Full-time | £45 - 65k

Spill is a message based therapy app on a mission to bring the benefits of therapy to everyone. We work with businesses and universities to provide all of their employees and students with a therapist.

If you have any questions or are interested in applying, email me directly: calvin [at] spill.chat

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019) on Monday June 03, 2019 @02:26PM (#20086456)
Spill | London, UK | Onsite | https://www.spill.chat/ We're a mental health startup on a mission to bring the benefits of therapy to everyone. We offer message-based therapy for workplaces and universities.

We work with some brilliant companies including Monzo and Rightmove, as well as two Universities, and we are backed by great VC's including Passion Capital and Seedcamp.

You can read a little about our culture here: https://medium.com/spill-stories

We're currently hiring software engineer #3 at Spill. You can get in touch via email at [email protected]. Thanks!

Tech Stack: React, React-Native, Node.js

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019) on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @12:41PM (#19798909)
Spill | London, UK | Onsite | https://www.spill.chat/

We're a mental health startup on a mission to bring the benefits of therapy to everyone. We offer message-based therapy for workplaces and universities.

We work with some brilliant companies including Monzo and Rightmove, as well as two Universities, and we are backed by great VC's including Passion Capital and Seedcamp.

You can read a little about our culture here: https://medium.com/spill-stories

We're currently hiring software engineer #3 at Spill. You can get in touch via email at [email protected]. Thanks!

Tech Stack: React, React-Native, Node.js

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