Engineering Manager (Product)
HirexHire Elk Grove Township, Illinois, United States
Staffing and Recruiting · 2-10 employees
About the role
Manage and mentor a team of 4-6 engineers while acting as a player-coach to support technical contributions. Lead agile rituals and collaborate with product managers to turn business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
What they look for
Requirements
Requires 8+ years of professional software experience with at least 3 years in Ruby-on-Rails and 1 year in management. Candidates must have experience in the healthcare software industry and be comfortable working in a startup environment.
Full description
ABOUT US
HirexHire (pronounced hire by hire) is a Chicago-based recruiting and talent consultancy that integrates with companies short-term to provide long-term talent solutions. We take a seat in our client’s everyday operations to understand their people's goals, gaps, and challenges. We then develop and implement the processes and technologies to execute a sustainable and scalable talent plan.
We partner with companies expecting or experiencing high growth who need to hire at scale or fill a critical role rapidly. Our clients are not looking for quick-fix placements but are thoughtfully building a hiring strategy to scale their businesses.
OUR CLIENT
Location: Chicago, IL HQ
Industry: Healthcare Technology
Contact HirexHire for more client information
THE ROLE
Our client is searching for an Engineering Manager that has experience leading teams working with large production applications. As an Engineering Manager, your leadership will be critical in revamping our client's existing software experience and helping build their future from the ground up using modern technologies and techniques.
What you will work on:
Building features that support customer compliance with emerging regulatory mandates.
Optimizing patient compliance - the rate of successful data collection from our customers’ patients.
Building benchmarking features that enable customers to identify their strengths and weaknesses in patient care.
Enabling effective patient data collection using configurable patient care pathways, HL7, and FHIR.
Contributing to a multi-tier data architecture that enables cross-referencing of patient outcomes with comorbidities, medical devices, and other related health factors.
Building benchmarking features that enable customers to identify their strengths and weaknesses in patient care.
How our client works:
Operates in 2-week sprints, within 6-month company planning cycles, and deploy weekly.
Google Suite, JIRA, Slack, Notion, Claude, Macbook Pros.
Ruby on Rails, Docker, AWS, Typescript, React, GraphQL, OpenSearch, Datadog.
Actively use AI throughout the entire software development lifecycle.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
Manage and mentor a team of 4-6 engineers, facilitating their professional development.
Be a player-coach - active in coding contributions and technical support.
Own team agile rituals such as planning, ticketing, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
Plan, lead, and support new production features and projects - partnering with Product Managers and designers to turn business requirements into sound technical solutions.
Proactively collaborate with key internal stakeholders to support production usage of our software by our enterprise customers.
Champion software performance, scalability, reliability, and observability.
Actively balance new development against technical debt and architectural improvements.
Actively lead in the adoption/usage of AI tooling and techniques throughout our software development practices.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED
Required
8+ years of professional software experience and 3+ years of Ruby-on-Rails experience.
1+ years of experience managing engineers.
Comfortable using AI throughout the software development lifecycle.
Experience within the healthcare software industry.
Comfortable working in a startup environment where you must create clarity out of ambiguity.
Nice to have
Experience with React, Typescript, GraphQL.
Experience integrating with EHRs, HL7, FHIR, and/or SmartOnFHIR.
Experience with medical coding standards - CPT, ICD-10, SNOMED.
Experience working on large-scale data-driven products or features - leveraging aggregation, data cleaning, data transformation, data attribution, etc.
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
30 days - Ship and review code, understand your team’s core projects, and become comfortable with our AI tooling.
60 days - Increase technical contributions while becoming the primary technical driver for your team’s core projects.
90 days - Form growth plans for all of your direct reports and become comfortable throughout our client's product.
