Director of Engineering

Energy Innovation Corp; Naperville (IL); On-site; USD 189,000 - 293,000; Full time

Job summary

HealthCare Partners in Naperville, IL is hiring a Director of Engineering to own and drive backend development across a scalable platform. You will lead architecture decisions, guide Scrum-based delivery, and collaborate with data teams to surface insights from production systems.

The role requires 11+ years in technology leadership focused on Customer Service, with the ability to translate complex networking concepts for non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 11+ years putting Customer Service to work in a technology setting.
• Ability to translate networking complexity for a non-technical audience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain backend services using Scrum.
• Pair Vue.js and Networking in a pipeline HealthCare Partners can extend.
• Land Networking performance wins measurable in IL retention numbers.
• Scale HealthCare Partners's Customer Service services from Naperville pilot to IL-wide rollout.
• Work closely with data teams to surface insights from production systems.
• Turn vague technology tickets into crisp, testable Unit Testing acceptance criteria.
• Sketch the Kubernetes architecture, defend it in review, then build the thing.

Skills

Leadership

Ownership mindset

Empathy-led work

Tools

Kubernetes

Vue.js

Job description

Code that ships to millions starts as a pull request on someone's screen, and at HealthCare Partners we want that someone to be our next Director of Engineering. You supply 11 years and Networking; HealthCare Partners supplies $189,000 - $293,000, a Naperville home, and growth that does not flatten out.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Scrum and Customer Service
• Pair Vue.js and Networking in a pipeline HealthCare Partners can extend without your help later
• Land Networking performance wins HealthCare Partners can measure in IL retention numbers
• Scale HealthCare Partners's Customer Service services from Naperville pilot to IL-wide rollout
• Work closely with data teams to surface insights from production systems
• Turn vague technology tickets into crisp, testable Unit Testing acceptance criteria
• Sketch the Kubernetes architecture, defend it in review, then build the thing

What You'll Bring

• The kind of ownership that treats the company's money like your own
• Comfort with part-time arrangements and the rhythms of an empathy-led workplace
• The judgment to distinguish a fire drill from an actual fire
• Flexibility to adapt your approach as business needs evolve
• 11+ years putting Customer Service to work in a technology setting
• The grit to debug at 4pm on a Friday without complaint
• Experience translating Networking complexity for a non-technical audience

HealthCare Partners was founded on a hunch that technology could be far less awful, and Naperville turned out to be the perfect place to prove it. Around here, "I don't know yet" is a perfectly respectable sentence and often the start of something good.

Earn a $189,000 - $293,000 base while a mentor accelerates your jump from director to lead, with benefits and flexibility along for the ride.

Confirmed active this hour for the Naperville, IL crew, no waiting list.