Head of Software Engineering (Remote)

About the role

The Head of Software Engineering will lead the modernization of PracticeMatch's legacy ColdFusion and SQL Server platform, align engineering priorities with competitive strategy, and foster a culture of excellence.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a multi-year technology roadmap that modernizes the platform.
• Partner with product and business leadership to align engineering priorities with competitive strategy and customer outcomes.
• Evaluate and recommend modern technology choices for long-term scalability.
• Champion the responsible adoption of agentic AI across the engineering lifecycle.
• Lead, manage, and develop the PracticeMatch engineering team.
• Build and sustain a culture of engineering excellence.
• Attract, recruit, and retain strong engineering talent.
• Conduct regular performance conversations and provide direct, constructive feedback.
• Foster psychological safety and a team environment where engineers can learn from failure.
• Own engineering delivery, ensuring projects are scoped well, executed reliably, and completed to a high standard.
• Maintain and improve engineering systems, including CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment infrastructure, quality gates, and observability.
• Identify engineering work that can move to AI-assisted or automated workflows, keeping human review in place where necessary.
• Serve as the primary technology partner to PracticeMatch's business and product leadership.
• Communicate architecture decisions, transformation progress, and engineering health to senior leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Active engagement with M3 USA's AI training and upskilling programs; demonstrated adoption of agentic coding tools.
• 12+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including significant time in a hands-on technical role.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including direct management of engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience leading legacy system modernization or technology platform migration efforts.
• Experience in a SaaS, data, or platform product environment; healthcare technology or physician recruiting industry experience a plus.
• Expert-level understanding of web application architecture.
• Working fluency in ColdFusion and SQL Server sufficient to evaluate and guide modernization decisions.
• Strong working knowledge of modern web technologies (React or equivalent front-end frameworks, RESTful APIs, cloud infrastructure, containerization).
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines, automated test frameworks, and observability systems.
• Practical knowledge of application security, data privacy, and compliance requirements in web products.
• Strong working knowledge of agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, or equivalents) and the techniques — repository context, quality gates, review discipline — that make them reliable in production engineering.
• Proven ability to recruit, manage, and develop engineering talent at multiple levels.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to present technical information to executive, business, and engineering audiences.
• Familiarity with the physician recruiting or healthcare data domain is an advantage.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including significant time in a hands-on technical role.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including direct management of engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience leading legacy system modernization or technology platform migration efforts.
• Expert-level understanding of web application architecture.
• Strong working knowledge of modern web technologies (React or equivalent front-end frameworks, RESTful APIs, cloud infrastructure, containerization).
• Practical knowledge of application security, data privacy, and compliance requirements in web products.
• Strong working knowledge of agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, or equivalents) and the techniques — repository context, quality gates, review discipline — that make them reliable in production engineering.
• Proven ability to recruit, manage, and develop engineering talent at multiple levels.

Skills

• Agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, or equivalents)
• CI/CD pipelines
• Automated testing
• Deployment infrastructure
• Observability systems
• Application security
• Data privacy and compliance
• Modern web technologies (React or equivalent front-end frameworks, RESTful APIs, cloud infrastructure, containerization)
• Web application architecture

Benefits

• Competitive wages
• Health and Dental Insurance
• Life, Accident, and Disability Insurance
• Prescription Plan
• Flexible Spending Account
• 401k Plan and Match
• Paid Holidays and Vacation
• Sick Days and Personal Day