Remote Engineering Manager Lead Pillar Teams

Gifthealth; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 152,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Gifthealth is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable software across 3-5 teams within their pillar. This role combines hands-on engineering with team leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure secure, reliable systems.

Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will set technical direction and drive execution while fostering a strong engineering culture aligned with operational excellence and compliance standards in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field OR equivalent professional experience.
• 5-10 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience leading technical projects, multiple engineering teams, or pillar-level organizations.
• Experience leading teams using Agile or similar delivery methodologies.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Prior experience managing or formally leading engineers and engineering managers (Preferred).
• Experience in high-growth startups or healthcare technology organizations (Preferred).
• Knowledge of Ruby and Ruby on Rails, RESTful APIs, Postgres, cloud platforms.
• Strong software design, coding skills, and ability to translate business problems into technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Leads design, development, and delivery of scalable, high-quality software solutions aligned with business priorities.
• Provides technical leadership, code reviews, and architectural guidance across the engineering teams within their pillar.
• Manages, mentors, and supports 3-5 engineering teams within their pillar, including performance feedback and career development for engineers and team leads.
• Collaborates with product, design, operations, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Oversees system reliability, performance monitoring, testing strategies, and production support across their pillar.
• Contributes to documentation, development standards, and continuous improvement of engineering processes.

Skills

Technical leadership

People management

Agile delivery

Cross-functional collaboration

System architecture

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field OR equivalent professional experience

Tools

Ruby on Rails

PostgreSQL

RESTful APIs

Cloud platforms

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Gifthealth is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable software across 3-5 teams within their pillar. This role combines hands-on engineering with team leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure secure, reliable systems.

Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will set technical direction and drive execution while fostering a strong engineering culture aligned with operational excellence and compliance standards in a