Location: New York City | Onsite
Type: Full-Time

About the Opportunity

We're partnering with a rapidly growing, venture-backed HealthTech company leveraging AI to transform healthcare operations and clinical decision making.

The company is building enterprise scale technology that helps healthcare organizations streamline complex workflows, improve operational efficiency, and ultimately deliver better patient outcomes.

As the engineering organization continues to scale, they're looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead a team of approximately 10 engineers in New York City.

This is a player-coach position, with roughly 70% people leadership and 30% hands-on technical involvement. You'll be responsible for building and developing a high-performing engineering team while remaining closely involved in architecture, technical decisions, and delivery.

This is an opportunity to join a high-growth company at a pivotal stage and play a meaningful role in shaping its engineering organization.

What You'll Do

Lead & Develop a High-Performing Engineering Team

• Manage, mentor, and develop a team of approximately 10 software engineers.

• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development discussions.

• Establish clear growth plans and support engineers in progressing into senior and leadership positions.

• Own hiring efforts, including defining requirements, conducting interviews, assessing technical capabilities, and attracting top engineering talent.

• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, accountability, and engineering excellence.

Drive Technical Delivery & Execution

• Own engineering delivery, ensuring projects are appropriately scoped, prioritized, and executed efficiently.

• Partner closely with Product, Clinical, and Customer-facing teams to translate complex healthcare workflows into technical requirements and product roadmaps.

• Collaborate with enterprise customers and technical stakeholders on integrations, implementation planning, and deployments.

• Oversee the reliability and performance of production systems, including incident management, on-call processes, and postmortem improvements.

• Balance speed, scalability, and technical quality to deliver reliable solutions.

Remain Hands-On Technically

• Participate in architecture discussions, system design reviews, and technical decision-making.

• Review code and guide engineers through complex technical challenges.

• Contribute directly through prototyping, debugging, and internal tooling when needed.

• Help the team make thoughtful trade-offs around system performance, reliability, and scalability.

Help Scale the Engineering Organization

• Establish and continuously improve engineering processes, standards, and best practices.

• Partner with senior leadership on hiring plans, team structure, and organizational growth.

• Help build scalable engineering foundations as the company expands.

• Play an active role in shaping the team's technical culture and long-term direction.

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 2 years in an Engineering Manager role with direct responsibility for hiring, performance management, and career development.

• Strong technical expertise in backend engineering and/or infrastructure, including APIs, integrations, data pipelines, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.

• Demonstrated experience making architectural decisions and building, deploying, and maintaining production systems at scale.

• A hands-on technical background with the ability to participate meaningfully in system design discussions and code reviews.

• Proven success mentoring engineers, building high-performing teams, and developing technical talent into senior or leadership roles.

• Strong execution and delivery skills, with the ability to prioritize effectively, manage trade-offs, and maintain engineering quality.

• Experience working in technically complex environments, such as high-growth startups, scale-ups, large technology companies, financial technology firms, or organizations with significant cloud infrastructure.

• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment where processes and structures are still being developed.

• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Healthcare industry experience is a plus, but not required.

Technology Stack

• Languages & Frameworks: Python, Go, TypeScript, React, HTMX

• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Nix, CDKTF

• Technical Focus: Backend systems, infrastructure, distributed systems, APIs, integrations, production reliability, and cloud architecture

Experience leading cloud infrastructure migrations or modernization initiatives is a plus.

Who Will Thrive in This Role

This opportunity is ideal for an engineering leader who:

• Enjoys developing people while staying deeply connected to technical work.

• Has a strong backend or infrastructure foundation and isn't afraid to roll up their sleeves.

• Thrives in high-growth environments where they can build processes rather than simply inherit them.

• Takes ownership of both team development and engineering delivery.

• Values simplicity, strong technical foundations, and thoughtful execution.

• Is excited about building technology that makes a meaningful impact on healthcare.

Please note: This is an onsite opportunity in New York City and is not available remotely.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive, top-of-market base salary

• Meaningful equity

• 100% employer covered health, dental, and vision insurance

• Catered lunches and a fully stocked office kitchen

• Commuter benefits

• Company-provided laptop and technology equipment

• Learning and professional development budget

• Team events and collaborative company culture

• Flexible PTO

You'll be joining a rapidly scaling HealthTech company at an exciting stage of growth, working alongside a talented team building advanced AI-powered technology for the healthcare industry.

Beyond leading an engineering team, you'll have the opportunity to influence technical strategy, develop future engineering leaders, and help shape the foundations of an organization positioned for significant growth.