Director of Engineering

HealthCare Partners; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 241,000 - 354,000; Full time

Job summary

HealthCare Partners is seeking a Director of Engineering to scale its technology platform across New Jersey. You will carry features from whiteboard sketches to Princeton production, owning critical delivery milestones and architectural decisions.

The role prioritizes building fault-tolerant distributed systems, leveraging GitLab CI, Redis, Nginx, and Cypress debugging. Autonomy here comes with a partner: ask for help when stuck on Attention Management.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership guiding director-level initiatives.
• Strong point of view with ability to defend it.
• 10 years of experience in relevant roles.
• Ability to debug complex issues at short notice.

Responsibilities

• Carry features from whiteboard sketches to Princeton production without dropping the baton.
• Scale HealthCare Partners' Attention Management services from Princeton pilot to NJ-wide rollout.
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging GitLab CI and Redis.
• Untangle Cypress dependency knots that have slowed Princeton releases for months.
• Spike a Nginx proof of concept fast when HealthCare Partners needs a yes-or-no answer.
• Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production.
• Watch GitLab CI error budgets and pump the brakes before Princeton burns through them.

Skills

Leadership experience

Strategic thinking

Attention to detail

Grit under pressure

Tools

GitLab CI

Redis

Nginx

Cypress

Ruby

Job description

HealthCare Partners is scaling its technology platform across NJ, and the Director of Engineering we hire becomes one of its load-bearing decisions. Consider the trade: your 11 years of Project Management for $241,000 - $354,000, a temporary schedule, and ownership most shops never offer.

Key Responsibilities

• Carry features from whiteboard sketch to Princeton, NJ production without dropping the baton
• Scale HealthCare Partners's Attention Management services from Princeton pilot to NJ-wide rollout
• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging GitLab CI and Redis
• Untangle the Cypress dependency knots that have slowed Princeton releases for months
• Spike a Nginx proof of concept fast when HealthCare Partners needs a yes-or-no answer
• Configure and manage infrastructure as code across staging and production
• Watch GitLab CI error budgets and pump the brakes before Princeton, NJ burns through them

What You'll Bring

• Proven leadership experience guiding director-level initiatives
• A point of view, held loosely and defended well
• 10 years that taught you which corners can be cut
• The grit to debug at 4pm on a Friday without complaint

HealthCare Partners is the gloriously-unglamorous NJ company that built its name on technology work nobody else wanted to do properly. Autonomy here comes with a partner: ask for help the moment you're stuck on Attention Management.

Earn $241,000 - $354,000, sharpen your Ruby beside a mentor, enjoy the benefits, and never apologize for needing a flexible Tuesday.