Engineering Manager, Product - AI-Driven HealthTech

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

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.