Remote Software Development Manager - Hands-On Leader

Healing Partners; Sparks Corner (MD); Remote; USD 165,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Health Savings Account (HSA)

401k with company match

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Life Insurance & Disability

Discount Programs

Job summary

Healing Partners is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a small, high-impact engineering team responsible for the design, development, and modernization of our healthcare platform. The role blends people management with hands-on coding and technical direction in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js/Express, REST APIs, MongoDB, and SQL databases.

You will formalize DevOps practices, improve CI/CD, architecture reviews, and incident response while mentoring engineers, prioritizing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field; equivalent experience considered.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience with production web apps.
• 3+ years of formal people-management experience or similar leadership responsibilities.
• Experience leading a small software engineering team in a player-coach role.
• Strong experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js/Express, REST APIs, HTML/CSS.
• Experience with MongoDB and relational databases (SQL Server/MySQL/PostgreSQL).
• Experience supporting Linux-hosted and cloud-hosted production apps; Azure preferred.
• Experience implementing/improving CI/CD, automated deployments, source-control practices, and production monitoring.
• Experience with Git and Agile/Scrum; healthcare/regulated environments a plus.
• Cybersecurity knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small, high-impact software engineering team responsible for design, development, reliability, and modernization of Healing Partners’ healthcare platform.
• Manage developers, conduct performance reviews, set priorities, ensure predictable delivery, and stay technically engaged with architecture and reviews.
• Improve CI/CD, deployment automation, monitoring, documentation, incident response, and operational processes.
• Develop and maintain web applications using JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js/Express, REST APIs, MongoDB, and SQL databases.
• Lead production support and incident response for mission-critical applications, communicating status and risks to stakeholders.
• Partner with Infrastructure and Information Security to improve monitoring, backups, and security controls; implement DevOps best practices.
• Own intake/prioritization process, evaluate new work for stability, regulatory, revenue impact, risk, and capacity.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

Node.js/Express

CI/CD

DevOps

Architecture

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

MongoDB

SQL databases (SQL Server/MySQL/PostgreSQL)

Azure

Git

Job description

Healing Partners is seeking a Software Development Manager to lead a small, high-impact engineering team responsible for the design, development, and modernization of our healthcare platform. The role blends people management with hands-on coding and technical direction in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js/Express, REST APIs, MongoDB, and SQL databases.

You will formalize DevOps practices, improve CI/CD, architecture reviews, and incident response while mentoring engineers, prioritizing