Engineering Manager - Health Tech, AI-Driven Data

PatientIQ; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Flexible PTO

Job summary

PatientIQ, a Chicago-based health tech company, is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers building large production applications. You will drive modern tech choices, mentor 4–6 engineers, and participate as a hands-on contributor in a fast-paced startup environment.

You will own agile rituals, collaborate with Product and Design, and ensure scalable, observable systems while advancing AI-enabled development practices across the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software experience.
• 3+ years of Ruby-on-Rails experience.
• 1+ years of experience managing engineers.
• Experience in healthcare software is preferred.
• Comfortable in a startup environment with ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor a team of 4-6 engineers, facilitating their professional development.
• Be a player-coach - contribute code and provide technical support.
• Own team agile rituals: planning, ticketing, backlog grooming, retrospectives.
• Lead production features and projects with Product Managers and designers.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to support production usage of the software by enterprise customers.
• Champion software performance, scalability, reliability, and observability.
• Balance new development with technical debt and architectural improvements.
• Lead adoption of AI tooling throughout software development practices.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Team Leadership

Software Architecture

Healthcare software

AI tooling adoption

Cloud platforms

Open-source tooling

Tools

Docker

AWS

Typescript

React

GraphQL

OpenSearch

Datadog

Job description

PatientIQ, a Chicago-based health tech company, is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead a team of engineers building large production applications. You will drive modern tech choices, mentor 4–6 engineers, and participate as a hands-on contributor in a fast-paced startup environment.

You will own agile rituals, collaborate with Product and Design, and ensure scalable, observable systems while advancing AI-enabled development practices across the lifecycle.