Engineering Manager (SaaS)

HirexHire (pronounced hire by hire) is a Chicago-based recruiting and talent consultancy that integrates with companies short-term to provide long-term talent solutions. We take a seat in our client’s everyday operations to understand their people's goals, gaps, and challenges. We then develop and implement the processes and technologies to execute a sustainable and scalable talent plan. We partner with companies expecting or experiencing high growth who need to hire at scale or fill a critical role rapidly. Our clients are not looking for quick-fix placements but are thoughtfully building a hiring strategy to scale their businesses.

About the Client

Location: Chicago, IL HQ
Industry: B2B SaaS

About the Role

Our client is searching for an Engineering Manager that has experience leading teams working with large production applications. Your leadership will be critical in revamping the existing software experience and helping build their future from the ground up using modern technologies and techniques.

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 customers’ patients.
• Building benchmarking features that enable customers to identify their strengths and weaknesses in patient care.
• Enabling effective 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 the client works:

• Operates in 2-week sprints, within 6-month company planning cycles, and deploys weekly.
• Tools: Google Suite, JIRA, Slack, Notion, Claude, Macbook Pros.
• Tech stack: Ruby on Rails, Docker, AWS, Typescript, React, GraphQL, OpenSearch, Datadog.
• Actively uses AI throughout the entire software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor a team of 4-6 engineers, facilitating their professional development.
• Act as 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 the software by 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 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.

What Success Looks Like

• 30 days: Ship and review code, understand your team’s core projects, and become comfortable with AI tooling.
• 60 days: Increase technical contributions while becoming the primary technical driver for your team’s core projects.
• 90 days: Form growth plans for all direct reports and become comfortable throughout the client's product.