VP of Engineering

Assure Health; Michigan; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Assure Health is seeking a VP of Engineering to lead and scale their development team. This position plays a crucial role in creating a high-impact engineering function to drive the company’s success in remote patient monitoring and virtual care.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in engineering, preferably within a healthcare startup. Responsibilities include establishing engineering standards, leading technology strategies, and building a high-performing engineering team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on engineering experience, preferably in healthcare.
• 2+ years of team leadership and mentoring experience.
• Experience with highly reliable and scalable distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Establish engineering processes and define standards.
• Lead architecture discussions during feature development.
• Build solutions for appropriate scalability.

Skills

Hands-on engineering experience

Team leadership and mentoring

Building healthcare compliant systems

Experience with AWS

Salesforce development

DevOps experience

Continuous improvement mindset

Job description

Assure Health is a fast-growing remote patient monitoring and virtual care provider that has proven to improve outcomes for patients and lower the cost of care. They are a 50-state provider network and have built a best -in-class technology platform to deliver excellent, relationship-driven care for patients with chronic conditions in collaboration with health systems and health plans.

The Role:

This is an exciting opportunity to work with a well-funded healthcare startup and build out the Engineering function. As a high-impact member of the leadership team, the VP of Engineering will be responsible for creating a world-class development organization, scaling, and leading the engineering team. The VP of Engineering will help drive the success of the overall business by collaborating with stakeholders internally and externally to set technical direction. The VP of Engineering will have been brought through the ranks as a hands-on Engineer and also have some leadership experience. This role will be both hands on and strategic. The ideal candidate will be based in South Florida, but we are open to it being remote for the right candidate.

Responsibilities:

• Establish engineering processes and define our engineering standards
• Identify and implement core technologies, while removing technical hurdles
• Lead architecture discussions during feature development with both internal and external stakeholders (specifically clients) to ensure that projects are built in a sound, reliable, performant way.
• Work cross-functionally, supporting the successful implementation of core features
• Build solutions for appropriate scalability at speed
• Hire, develop, and lead an A+ engineering team
• Have a perfectionist-like mind, naturally monitoring and fine-tuning systems for performance
• Engage in troubleshooting, testing, and maintaining core product software; optimize, scale, and improve existing code
• Guiding incident response and vulnerability remediation efforts
• Establish a culture of high productivity, collaboration, and big impact, and empowering each team to bring their vision to life
• Provide software and technology research, analysis, and recommendations internally and to our clients

Skills and Qualifications:

• 7+ years of hands-on engineering experience, writing and shipping high-quality production code, especially highly reliable and scalable distributed system
• Ideally 2+ years of experience recruiting, leading, and mentoring an engineering team
• Engineering experience in a healthcare startup that has grown from under 50 employees to a few hundred employees is ideal
• Experience building healthcare compliant systems
• Experience with implementations at healthcare organizations
• Experience obtaining HiTRUST certification is a plus
• Previous involvement with Salesforce development
• Experience working with AWS and have some DevOps experience
• Experience implementing core business strategies with technology by creating processes that scale, advancing architecture, and developing roadmaps
• Possess a continuous improvement mindset to develop a scalable MVP and iterate in a data-driven approach
• Able to execute on ideas and influence decision making in a clear and effective manner

Additional Information

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