Hands-On Tech Lead: Modernizing a Pharmacy Platform

Innovation Associates, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Innovation Associates, Inc. seeks a Sr. Manager, Software Engineering to lead a small team modernizing the NEXiA platform, a customer-deployed pharmacy automation system.

The role fuses hands-on coding with leadership: you will personally write and review code each week and set technical direction through concrete examples. Expect to normalize release discipline and drive predictable delivery in a code-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Must have hands-on software engineering experience while leading a team
• Strong ability to mentor and coach engineers
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

• Hire, mentor, and lead a small software engineering team while remaining in the code yourself
• Set technical direction through working examples - the patterns you establish in code review and your own commits are the ones the team follows
• Create clear ownership and accountability: who owns which modules, who makes which decisions, what “done” means
• Address performance issues directly and early; a small team can’t carry passengers
• Represent engineering reality to leadership - honest capacity, honest timelines, honest risk
• Own sprint-to-sprint execution: planning, sequencing, and unblocking so the team ships predictably
• Establish and enforce engineering practices - pull-request review discipline, meaningful test coverage, incremental delivery over big-bang merges
• Drive releases that are routine, not events: staged rollouts, rollback paths, and validation against the customer configurations that actually exist
• Prioritize ruthlessly: modernization scope always exceeds capacity, so sequencing is a core management skill

Job description

Innovation Associates, Inc. seeks a Sr. Manager, Software Engineering to lead a small team modernizing the NEXiA platform, a customer-deployed pharmacy automation system.

The role fuses hands-on coding with leadership: you will personally write and review code each week and set technical direction through concrete examples. Expect to normalize release discipline and drive predictable delivery in a code-driven environment.