Engineering Manager, R&D

About the role

We are seeking an Engineering Manager who will manage the R&D engineering team at Commure. The team takes emerging technology from inception to impact, scouting new capabilities such as a frontier LLM capable of chaining tool calls, browser agents navigating the web, and new agent harnesses improving autonomously. The role involves producing these technologies for healthcare, delivering them to customers, and owning them as a P&L until they graduate.

• Embedded into an existing product, e.g., the AI Copilot in our practice management suite.
• Becomes its own product, e.g., Air, the EHR.
• Becomes an internal RCM workflow saving the company millions annually, e.g., EOB web agents and appeal agents.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and grow a team of 3+ engineers, ensuring clarity of purpose, healthy execution, and strong collaboration.
• Maintain the team’s startup mindset as we grow, excelling in fast-paced environments where priorities and objectives can shift.
• Own the technical execution and delivery of the backend systems, automation platforms, and agent infrastructure that power this pipeline - ensuring they scale alongside the company.
• Partner closely with Product, Ops, and cross-functional teams to translate high-value problems into shipped solutions, filling gaps as necessary across the research-to-production spectrum.
• Manage project and resource prioritization, ensuring the team works on the most important work streams with the right level of urgency and technical rigor.
• Uphold high standards in system design, code quality, and engineering operations, fostering a culture of reliability and ownership.
• Coach and develop engineers, supporting career growth, technical excellence, and a high-performing culture that can move from 0 to 1 and sustain what it builds.

What You Have

• 4+ years of experience developing software, with a background in shipping products in a fast-paced, rapidly scaling environment.
• 1+ years of experience leading engineering teams, including mentoring, performance reviews, and fostering a culture of growth and collaboration.
• A strong foundation as an individual contributor, with the ability to roll up your sleeves, dive into the codebase, and problem-solve directly alongside the team when needed.
• Adequate technical background with expertise in modern backend development (e.g., Python - fastAPI, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes) and frontend development (Javascript - React) to build broad, event-driven platforms.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate strongly with cross-functional teams and effectively present technical concepts to leadership.
• A passion for healthcare innovation and making a meaningful impact on patient care.
• Experience managing and scaling teams of 8+ engineers, ideally with sub-team leads or tech leads reporting to you.
• Proven ability to deliver platform-scale systems that are reliable, maintainable, and scalable.
• Proven experience as a technical leader with the ability to make key architectural and strategic decisions that influence the overall product direction.
• Proven ability to manage resource allocation, ensuring that projects are completed on time and with the right level of technical rigor.

Qualifications

• Compensation Range: $190K - $230K