Engineering Manager

About the role

The Engineering Manager will support and enable the technical team in planning, executing, and delivering the Candid platform to healthcare provider customers. The role involves building and maintaining key components of a complex and evolving architecture according to industry best-in-class quality, durability, and performance standards. This role requires collaboration with company leadership, sales, and product teams to define and execute the long-term product strategy.

Responsibilities

• Leverage an expansive breadth of ownership for the priorities of both teams and customers to balance competing needs and manage tradeoffs.
• Support your team in executing against the technical vision. Scoping projects and reviewing plans are leveraged to achieve the collective vision.
• Lead one or more efficient, successful, and motivated teams. Experiment with and implement the team systems that work to achieve your teams' outcomes.
• Collaborate with product, leadership, and others within engineering to build Candid's flagship products. Influence direction for technical leads and individual contributors.
• Mentor and grow people: Invest in Candid's growth by investing in the development of the people we hire. Help define pathways to grow for your team, both in formal performance management and organic opportunities to take on more scope.
• Partner with company and product leadership to understand and contribute to critical product and company strategy. Design the systems, architecture, and processes to build in order to hit short-term and long-term objectives.
• Owning engineering practice, you are responsible for building and maintaining critical services and features.
• Leading teams in planning, prioritization, tracking, through delivery of impactful results.
• Supporting teams in achieving and preserving a high level of technical quality, reliability, and developer satisfaction.
• Influencing partners and peers to identify obstacles to delivery and improve on our products while eliminating friction and redundancies.
• Make data-driven decisions on your sphere of ownership to continually improve reliability, performance, scale, and reduce operational load.
• Dive deep into software architecture, leveraging domain knowledge to achieve business objectives.
• Recruit exceptional engineers and managers in collaboration with Candid’s talent acquisition team.
• Mentor and coach your direct reports and those around you, working with your peers to create healthy and well-executing teams that grow with equal velocity to the business.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math, or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience in a Software Engineering Leadership position, such as technical lead, manager, or manager of managers.
• Successfully led people and teams to ship high-quality features in strategic product areas. Managed and executed against ambitious roadmaps.
• Excellent technical decision-making skills; know the right architecture and patterns to build functional, durable, and maintainable products.
• Ability to manage in multiple directions, including laterally and upward: know how to advocate for yourself and your team; where to get into the weeds and where to delegate.
• Successfully interviewed, hired, and mentored product-focused engineering teams. Collaborate well with staffing partners and stakeholders through all phases of the hiring lifecycle and are a talent magnet.
• Clear and concise communication; enjoy the challenge of explaining complicated ideas in simple terms, both in-person and in writing.

Qualifications

• Experience with data science and machine learning to automate complex medical billing processes.
• Understanding of healthcare billing and administrative processes.
• Experience with healthcare provider billing systems.
• Experience with software architecture and design patterns.
• Experience with project management and team leadership.

Skills

• Data science and machine learning expertise.
• Strong project management and team leadership skills.
• Effective communication and mentoring abilities.
• Experience with healthcare billing systems.
• Software architecture and design pattern knowledge.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package including base salary, bonus, and equity options.
• Flexible work schedule to accommodate personal and professional life.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Professional development opportunities and training programs.
• Work-life balance with generous vacation and sick leave policies.

Pay

$200K - $250K

Schedule

Full-time