Director, Software Engineering

About the role

Prescryptive is the healthcare technology company enabling the direct access marketplace for prescription drugs. Our platform aligns incentives so affordability, choice, and patient access become the natural outcome of a functioning system.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of software engineers, including performance management, feedback, career development, hiring, and team health.
• Assess and evolve your team's structure, capabilities, and capacity; identify talent gaps and make sound calls on hiring and allocation.
• Own the technical direction, delivery discipline, and operating rhythm for an engineering domain in partnership with product and engineering leadership.
• Translate business needs into technical priorities, sequencing decisions, and executable plans.
• Elevate the technical judgment of engineers around you through design reviews, architectural guidance, and mentorship.
• Ensure the team builds and operates high-quality software from design through production operations, including on-call readiness and incident response.
• Engage directly with product, technical product managers, and executive stakeholders to assess feasibility, cost, risk, and delivery implications of strategic initiatives.
• Identify overlapping work, cross-team dependencies, architectural risks, and technical debt before they become constraints.
• Hold the team accountable for commitments, surface delivery risks early, and work with product and engineering partners to adjust scope, sequencing or resources when necessary.

What you will bring

• 10+ years of software development experience, including accountability for the performance, delivery, and technical outcomes of an engineering team.
• 3+ years of formal people management leading software engineers, with a genuine passion for coaching and for building teams where engineers do their best work.
• Strong technical depth in at least one relevant engineering domain, with the judgment to go deep when needed and the humility to rely on specialists when appropriate.
• Experience leading delivery for complex systems that span multiple services, teams, or domains.
• Strong proficiency in the languages, frameworks, and technologies relevant to the domain you would lead, with the ability to ramp quickly in unfamiliar areas.
• Proven ability to own the full software development lifecycle, from requirements and design through construction, testing, deployment, and production operations.
• Strong understanding of the architecture, data flows, APIs, cloud environment, and operational dependencies relevant to the systems your domain owns.
• You optimize for the right solution given real constraints, not the theoretically perfect one.
• You create technical alignment across teams with competing priorities and make tradeoffs visible to stakeholders.
• You hold a high bar without creating unnecessary process.
• You translate fluently between business language and technical language, in both directions.
• Enthusiasm for leveraging AI-assisted development tools and emerging technologies.

Requirements

• Experience working in healthcare, another regulated industry, or an environment with complex data, security, and compliance requirements.
• Experience leading through organizational change, scaling engineering practices, or helping a growing engineering team mature its operating model.
• Relevant experience may include: Healthcare data and integration standards such as HL7, FHIR, EHR, PMS, or PBM integrations;
• Experience with GraphQL, event-driven systems, APIs, or data pipelines;
• Design systems, accessibility, frontend performance, or enterprise workflow design;
• Infrastructure as code, containerization, observability, and platform engineering at scale.

Payscale

The projected annual salary for this position is $220,000 to $275,000.

Benefits

• Flexible time off, including 12 paid holidays.
• 401k match plus 100% employer-provided medical, dental, and vision premiums.
• Company contribution to Health Savings Account.
• Stock options.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are committed to fair pay practices and are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.