Head of Engineering, Platform Product Line

Unite Us; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in health technology seeks a Head of Engineering for its Platform Product Line. This strategic role involves leading teams to deliver innovative solutions, upholding technical excellence, and collaborating with various departments to align on product goals. Ideal candidates will have a strong engineering background, extensive leadership experience, and a commitment to improving community health outcomes.

Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Flexible Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

401(k) with Employer Match

Wellness Programs

Employee Assistance Program

Life and AD&D insurance

Disability Coverage

Qualifications

• 10+ years of engineering leadership experience in multi-team initiatives.
• 5+ years building and managing high-performing teams.
• Experience with healthcare technology and Agile delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering managers and cross-functional teams to deliver innovative solutions.
• Drive delivery excellence across multiple workstreams ensuring execution of strategic initiatives.
• Shape technical strategy and collaborate across product domains.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic Thinking

Cross-functional Collaboration

Agile Methodologies

DevOps Practices

Cloud Solutions Design

Web Development

Tools

AWS

Job description

Head of Engineering, Platform Product Line

United States

Job Title: Head of Engineering, Platform Product Line

Department: Product Development & Delivery

About the Role:

As the Head of Engineering for the Platform Product Line, you will lead engineering managers and cross-functional teams responsible for delivering high-impact, scalable, and innovative solutions on the Unite Us Social Care Delivery Platform. You will serve as a senior technical and organizational leader, partnering closely with Product, UX, Analytics, and Engineering peers across product lines to drive architecture, performance, and strategy.Success in this role requires a strategic mindset, cross-functional leadership, and a focus on building high-performing teams, achieving results, and upholding strong technical standards.

What You'll Do:

Strategic & Technical Leadership

• Shape and own the technical strategy for the Platform product line in alignment with organizational goals and cross-product needs.
• Act as a key thought partner to the Platform Product Owner, ensuring that the roadmap balances technical innovation with customer and business outcomes.
• Ensure architectural alignment and component reusability across engineering teams and product domains.
• Lead and develop a high-performing group of engineering managers and their teams, upholding a high bar for performance and accountability.
• Cultivate a strong team culture that emphasizes continuous improvement, simplicity, and thoughtful technical decision-making.
• Hire, retain, and mentor top engineering talent to support and maintain delivery excellence.

Execution & Delivery

• Drive delivery excellence across multiple workstreams and domains by setting clear priorities and ensuring execution against strategic initiatives.
• Apply and promote expertise in modern Engineering and DevOps practices, and advocate for continual improvement in delivery, quality, and team velocity.
• Ensure workflows are extensible via APIs and aligned with our platform-first approach.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work across the technology and implementation organizations to ensure end-to-end cohesion and a best-in-class experience for internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate with peers in Product, Data, Security, Customer Success, and Sales to align on architecture, technical requirements, and product-market fit.

You’re a great fit for this role if:

• 10+ years of progressive engineering experience leading multi-team initiatives
• 5+ years of experience building and managing high-performing teams with a track record of consistently delivering and meeting roadmap commitments
• 4+ years in the healthcare, digital health or health technology sectors, using Agile delivery methodologies
• Experience building complex software products within healthcare, payments and/or government settings, with demonstrable success.
• Experience working on technical projects with dependencies across multiple domains, teams and technologies
• Deep experience in designing and implementing solutions in the cloud and validating architecture decisions
• Experience in web development (React (or another JS framework), CSS3, HTML5)
• Experience with AWS technologies.

Our Mission:

Unite Us’ mission is to unlock the potential of every community. Our co-founders started Unite Us in 2013 to serve the people they served with. They witnessed firsthand the barriers and inefficiencies in trying to navigate health and social services, and set out to improve that experience for veterans and their families. Unite Us quickly expanded to serving all people who need connections to care across our country. Through Unite Us’ national network and software, community-based organizations, government agencies, and healthcare organizations are all connected to better collaborate to meet the needs of the individuals in their communities. We drive the collaboration to predict, deliver, and pay for services that impact whole-person health. If you want to do well and do good, join Unite Us.

Environmental Job Requirements and Working Conditions:

• This position is remote, U.S. based. Strong preference for candidates comfortable working in ET/CT time zones
• This position may require 5-10% travel
• The target pay range for this role is: $200,000-$215,000. This salary range represents our target hiring range for this role. The proposed salary will be dependent on the candidate's skills, experience, and competencies, as well as location.
• All team members will be required to pass a background check which includes criminal, employment, and education verification

Benefits provided by Unite Us:

Medical, Dental, and Vision

We offer insurance to team members and eligible partners and dependents, including unlimited virtual mental health and acute medical visits.

Mental health benefits, such as the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and wellness platform subscription, are available to all team members.

Flexible Time Off

Take what you need, including volunteer days and mental health days. We also offer 14 paid, company-wide holidays.

Paid Parental Leave

Adoptive parents are included.

Employee Resource Groups

Choose to join any of our ERGs, which celebrate and support a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Spending Accounts

We offer tax-advantaged health savings accounts (HSAs), flexible spending accounts (FSAs), and commuter benefits.

401(k) + Employer Match

Enjoy matching, immediate vesting and financial wellness resources

Additional Benefits

Life and AD&D - a company paid benefit, with the option to purchase additional coverage for yourself and your dependents

Disability Coverage

Pet Insurance

As part of this work at home job, we will provide you with all the necessary equipment to perform your duties, including a computer, mouse, keyboard as well as other items on our approved list of WFH supplies.

Unite Us is committed to building a diverse team and fostering an inclusive culture, and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and encourage our employees' differences in race, religion, color, national origin, gender, family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, medical conditions, and other characteristics. If you require assistance in applying for open positions due to a disability please email us at [e-mail] to request an accommodation.

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