Senior Engineering Manager, RCM Core Backend

Athelas; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Athelas is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for its RCM Core Backend team in Mountain View, CA. The role focuses on leading software engineering efforts to streamline healthcare operations while managing a growing team. This position is ideal for a leader passionate about innovation in healthcare, seeking to impact patient care positively.

Benefits

Flexible PTO

Medical, dental, and vision plans

Maternity and paternity leave

Competitive salary

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software development experience in scalable environments.
• 3+ years leading engineering teams with effective coaching.
• Strong technical background in backend development.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of 15+ engineers.
• Own the technical execution of backend systems for RCM products.
• Foster a high-performing culture of collaboration and engineering excellence.

Skills

Software Development

Team Leadership

Communication

Technical Leadership

Problem Solving

Tools

Python

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Job description

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Healthcare providers go into medicine to care for people, but end up losing valuable time each day to admin work and other workplace challenges. Time that could otherwise be spent helping patients. And patients end up suffering as a result. At Commure, we build solutions that simplify providers' lives and keep them connected to their patients so they can focus on doing what matters most: providing care.

Our innovative suite of software and hardware – augmented by advanced LLM AI, RTLS, and healthcare workflow automations – boosts efficiency across every domain of healthcare, freeing up healthcare providers to spend more of their time caring for patients. Our growing suite of technologies include staff duress alerting, asset tracking, patient elopement, revenue cycle management, clinical documentation and intake, provider copilots, patient engagement and communication, home health, remote patient monitoring, and more.

Today, we support over 250,000 clinicians across hundreds of care sites around the country. And we’re only just getting started: Healthcare’s watershed moment for AI-powered transformation is here – so join us in creating the technology to power healthcare!

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll lead the charge in scaling our engineering team and delivering high-impact software solutions that streamline healthcare operations and improve patient care. You will be at the forefront of one of the company's flagship businesses, compounding at a rapid rate. You will be responsible for shaping the technical direction of our platform while driving team growth and development in a fast-paced and collaborative environment.

About The Role

This role will lead the RCM Core Backend Team at Commure + Athelas, the team responsible for building and maintaining the critical infrastructure that powers our entire Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) product. Our systems handle hundreds of millions of dollars in claims a year, freeing healthcare providers from tedious processes and allowing them to just be a doctor. We accomplish this with robust integrations, fault-tolerant data pipelines, and a swath of clever automations.

In this role, you will work with a high-performance team to drive product-wide initiatives, scale mission-critical backend services, and build new automations, all while ensuring system reliability, performance, and correctness. You’ll help manage both responsibilities of our team: supporting the RCM Product team to build customer-facing features on top of our solutions, as well as working with the Operations team to deliver and maintain novel automations that enable our business to scale with increasing efficiency. You'll also foster a culture of high ownership and engineering excellence, helping grow a team that thrives on solving complex, real-world problems at scale.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and grow a team of 15+ engineers, ensuring clarity of purpose, healthy execution, and strong collaboration.
• Maintain the team’s startup mindset as we grow, excelling in fast-paced environments where priorities and objectives can shift.
• Own the technical execution and delivery of major backend systems and automation platforms that power our RCM products, ensuring they scale alongside the company.
• Partner closely with Product, Ops, and cross-functional teams to build backend services that solve high-value business problems, filling in gaps as necessary.
• Manage project and resource prioritization, ensuring the team works on the most important work streams with the right level of urgency and technical rigor.
• Uphold high standards in system design, code quality, and engineering operations, fostering a culture of reliability and ownership.
• Coach and develop engineers, supporting career growth, technical excellence, and a high-performing culture.
• Foster a strong, in-person culture of collaboration, inclusion, and mutual respect within the engineering team.
  
  

Required

What You Have

• 6+ years of experience developing software, with a background in shipping products in a fast-paced, rapidly scaling environment.
• 3+ years of experience leading engineering teams, including mentoring, performance reviews, and fostering a culture of growth and collaboration.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate strongly with cross-functional teams and effectively present technical concepts to leadership.
• A passion for healthcare innovation and making a meaningful impact on patient care.
• Experience managing teams of 10+ engineers, ideally with sub-team leads or tech leads reporting to you.
• Proven ability to deliver platform-scale systems that are reliable, maintainable, and scalable.
• Proven experience as a technical leader with the ability to make key architectural and strategic decisions that influence the overall product direction.
• Strong technical background with expertise in modern backend development (e.g., Python, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes) to build broad, event-driven platforms.
• Proven ability to manage resource allocation, ensuring that projects are completed on time and with the right level of technical rigor.
  
  

Preferred

• Experience scaling engineering teams in high-growth environments.
• Background in building and optimizing scalable web applications with a focus on performance and user experience.
• Experience in highly regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, finance, insurance) with a focus on compliance, security, and reliability.
  
  

If you're excited about building the future of healthcare and leading a team of engineers dedicated to making a real-world impact, we’d love to hear from you!

Why you’ll love working at Commure + Athelas:

• Highly Driven Team: We work hard and fast for exceptional results, knowing we’re doing mission-driven work to transform the country’s largest sector.
• Strong Backing: We are backed by top investors including General Catalyst, Sequoia, Y Combinator, Lux, Human Capital, 8VC, Greenoaks Capital and Elad Gil.
• Incredible Growth: Prior to our merger, Commure and Athelas had independently grown more than 500% YoY for three consecutive years. We’ve achieved Series D funding, have an industry-leading runway, and continue to scale rapidly.
• Competitive Benefits: Flexible PTO (pending specific geographical locations) , medical, dental, vision, maternity and paternity leave. Note that benefits are subject to change and may vary based on jurisdiction.
  
  

Commure + Athelas is committed to creating and fostering a diverse team. We are open to all backgrounds and levels of experience, and believe that great people can always find a place. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to all applicants throughout the application process.

Please be aware that all official communication from us will come exclusively from email addresses ending in @getathelas.com, @commure.com or @augmedix.com. Any emails from other domains are not affiliated with our organization.

Employees will act in accordance with the organization’s information security policies, to include but not limited to protecting assets from unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, destruction or interference nor execute particular security processes or activities. Employees will report to the information security office any confirmed or potential events or other risks to the organization. Employees will be required to attest to these requirements upon hire and on an annual basis.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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