Director of Engineering

Key Responsibilities

• Own full people management responsibilities across your organization: performance reviews, conflict resolution, career progression, and hiring
• Build and scale a high-performing engineering organization, growing headcount thoughtfully as the org expands
• Drive the roadmap and delivery across the full engineering organization, including application scaling and delivery, new product development, and our core platform
• Guide the adoption of the latest LLM methodologies and applied AI techniques to solve some of the hardest, highest-impact problems in healthcare
• Manage and develop the managers and functional leads across your organization
• Partner with executive leadership to align roadmaps and priorities across Applications and Platform
• Stay close enough to the technical work to make sound decisions and unblock your teams (~10%-50% hands-on), while spending the majority of your time on management and leadership
• Support client accounts' engineering needs, helping the business prove out value-based contract commitments

Required Qualifications

• 10–15+ years of engineering experience, including sustained, 4+ years of ongoing experience as a people manager
• Track record of growing a team from a small group to 10+ people
• Experience managing 10–15+ engineers, either directly or through other managers
• Demonstrated full-cycle people management skills: performance management, conflict resolution, and career development
• Comfort with system design and architecture discussions; some hands-on coding ability is expected; high comfortability and expertise with system design
• Strong technical breadth across backend engineering, applied AI/ML, and platform or distributed systems, with experience taking applications into production
• Experience as an engineering tech lead prior to transitioning into management

Desirable Skills

• Experience at both a big tech company and a growth-stage startup
• Prior experience leading engineering for a health-tech business (not required, but a plus)
• Experience operating in value-based or outcomes-based contract environments
• Familiarity with modern LLM tooling and methodologies
• Experience partnering with account or business leadership on high-stakes, high-value client relationships