Engineering Manager

About PatientIQ

PatientIQ is a fast-growing health tech company on a mission to improve patient outcomes. We partner with healthcare providers, medical device companies, and researchers to collect, analyze, and act on patient-reported outcomes data at scale — powering smarter clinical decisions and accelerating the future of value-based care. Headquartered in Chicago and backed by top-tier venture capital and major health system investors, PatientIQ is building the largest platform for healthcare providers, industry partners, and researchers to collaborate on what matters most: helping patients get better.

What you will work on

• Building features that support customer compliance with emerging regulatory mandates
• Optimizing patient compliance - the rate of successful data collection from our customers' patients
• Building benchmarking features that enable customers to identify their strengths and weaknesses in patient care
• Enabling effective patient data collection using configurable patient care pathways, HL7, and FHIR
• Contributing to a multi-tier data architecture that enables cross-referencing of patient outcomes with comorbidities, medical devices, and other related health factors

How we work

• We operate in 2-week sprints, within 6-month company planning cycles, and deploy weekly
• We use Google Suite, JIRA, Slack, Notion, Claude, Macbook Pros
• We use Ruby on Rails, Docker, AWS, Typescript, React, GraphQL, OpenSearch, Datadog
• We actively use AI throughout the entire software development lifecycle

Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor a team of 4-6 engineers, facilitating their professional development
• Be a player-coach - active in coding contributions and technical support
• Own team agile rituals such as planning, ticketing, backlog grooming, and retrospectives
• Plan, lead, and support new production features and projects - partnering with Product Managers and designers to turn business requirements into sound technical solutions
• Proactively collaborate with key internal stakeholders to support production usage of our software by our enterprise customers
• Champion software performance, scalability, reliability, and observability
• Actively balance new development against technical debt and architectural improvements
• Actively lead in the adoption/usage of AI tooling and techniques throughout our software development practices

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software experience and 3+ years of Ruby-on-Rails experience
• 1+ years of experience managing engineers
• Comfortable using AI throughout the software development lifecycle
• Experience within the healthcare software industry
• Comfortable working in a startup environment where you must create clarity out of ambiguity

Nice to have

• Experience with React, Typescript, GraphQL
• Experience integrating with EHRs, HL7, FHIR, and/or SmartOnFHIR
• Experience with medical coding standards - CPT, ICD-10, SNOMED
• Experience working on large-scale data-driven products or features - leveraging aggregation, data cleaning, data transformation, data attribution, etc

Benefits

• Mission-driven work. We're solving a hard problem that matters — improving patient outcomes through better data. Every person here is working on something real
• True idea meritocracy. Great ideas win, regardless of title. We encourage every team member to challenge the status quo
• World-class team. You'll work alongside people who are at the top of their fields in health tech, enterprise software, and clinical science
• Fast-growing. We're building the largest platform for healthcare providers and industry to collaborate — and we're just getting started
• Great benefits. Top-notch health, dental, and vision. 401(k). Flexible PTO — we trust you to take the time you need. Professional development stipends
• Real ownership. This is not a role where you maintain someone else's playbook. You'll build, shape strategy, and see your impact directly