Head of Engineering

Lamar Health; USA; Remote; USD 140.000 - 190.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Lamar Health in the United States is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to drive a healthcare platform. You will balance production code contributions with team leadership, shaping the product roadmap and establishing the processes needed for scale.

You will collaborate with customers, product, and clinical teams to deliver reliable, scalable software, split time roughly evenly between coding and people management, and communicate trade-offs to engineers, executives, sales, and customers.

Qualifikationen

• Four to seven years of experience building and shipping production software.

Aufgaben

• Work with customers and cross-functional partners to understand operational needs and shape the product roadmap.
• Guide engineering decisions that improve the reliability, scalability, and extensibility of the core platform.
• Set priorities, including deciding which opportunities the team should defer.
• Manage and develop the engineering team, putting systems and processes in place to support growth.
• Split time between hands-on software development and team leadership, with an approximately even balance.
• Communicate technical and product trade-offs with engineers, executives, sales, and customers.

Tools

Python

TypeScript

Jobbeschreibung

Role overview

Lead engineering for a healthcare platform by connecting customer workflows with product and technical decisions. This is a hands-on player-coach position: you'll contribute to production code while managing the engineering team, strengthening the platform, and establishing the processes needed for the next stage of growth.

Responsibilities

• Work with customers and cross-functional partners to understand operational needs and shape the product roadmap.
• Guide engineering decisions that improve the reliability, scalability, and extensibility of the core platform.
• Set priorities, including deciding which opportunities the team should defer.
• Manage and develop the engineering team, putting systems and processes in place to support growth.
• Split time between hands-on software development and team leadership, with an approximately even balance.
• Communicate technical and product trade-offs with engineers, executives, sales, and customers.

Requirements

• Four to seven years of experience building and shipping production software.
• Ability to work in Python, TypeScript, or a similar language.
• Interest in applying technology and product thinking to healthcare.
• Comfort working through ambiguity and choosing practical, impact-focused solutions.
• An outcome-oriented approach to engineering, with strong empathy and communication.
• Motivation to improve healthcare delivery and the experience of patients and care teams.

Nice to have

• Experience in regulated or privacy-sensitive environments, such as those governed by HIPAA or SOC 2.
• Examples of projects you have delivered and can share.

Benefits and work setup

• Work has direct application in clinics and care settings, with opportunities to influence product direction.
• The role works across engineering, product, and clinical contexts on healthcare delivery challenges.