Engineering Manager (Product)

JobCubby; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

HirexHire is seeking an Engineering Manager for a Chicago-based healthcare technology client. You will lead a team of 4-6 engineers, mentor them, and contribute technically as a player-coach. You will own agile rituals and guide production features from concept through delivery.

In this role you will collaborate with Product Managers and designers, ensure performance, scalability, observability, and integrate AI tooling across the SDLC while balancing new work and technical debt.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software experience including leadership responsibilities.
• 3+ years of Ruby on Rails experience.
• 1+ year of experience managing engineers.
• Experience with AI throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Experience within the healthcare software industry.
• Comfortable working in a startup environment with ambiguity.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Leadership

People management

Agile coaching

Mentoring

Tools

Ruby on Rails

React

TypeScript

GraphQL

Docker

AWS

JIRA

Notion

Slack

Job description

ABOUT US

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.

OUR CLIENT

Location: Chicago, IL HQ

Industry: Healthcare Technology

Contact HirexHire for more client information

THE ROLE

Our client is searching for an Engineering Manager that has experience leading teams working with large production applications. As an Engineering Manager, your leadership will be critical in revamping our client's 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 our customers’ patients.
• Building benchmarking features that enable customers to identify their strengths and weaknesses in patient care.
• Enabling effective patient 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.
• Building benchmarking features that enable customers to identify their strengths and weaknesses in patient care.

How our client works:

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

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Manage and mentor a team of 4-6 engineers, facilitating their professional development.
• Be 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 our software by our 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 our software development practices.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

Required

• 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 our 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 of your direct reports and become comfortable throughout our client's product.