Backend Software Engineering Manager - Consumer Health Platform

Backend Software Engineering Manager - Consumer Health Platform

Location: Redwood City, CA (you can work from home up to 3x/week)

The company's product is in the realms of healthcare, consumer web, consumer mobile, and enterprise software. The company is reducing the cost and improving the quality of healthcare. It is also enabling people to have access to their healthcare in a convenient and safer way.

The company is based in Redwood City, CA. You could work from home up to 3x/week.

The company reached a $1.5 billion valuation in June 2022, and since then has been having roughly 70% year-over-year growth. It has about 100 employees and 25 engineers, and is rapidly growing.

The company will pay up to $260k in salary plus yearly bonuses and equity which could be lucrative.

Job Responsibilities:

- Running a small team efficiently - this isn't about empire building; this is about developing and coaching a small group of talented individuals to reach their full potential and maximize their impact.

- The tech stack includes Java and Spring.

- Managing 5 engineers to start, then hiring several more engineers. You could grow your team to 8-10 engineers in the next 2 years.

- Leading your team to deliver high quality software at a fast pace.

- Being a coach, taking an active hands-on approach to supporting your team. Expect that your time will be split between technical problem solving with your team, defining direction and helping individuals understand the right problems to solve, and closing the feedback loop with timely assessments.

- Time spent will be roughly as follows:

- 40% hands on problem solving, engineering design reviews, code reviews. At least 15% of time will be spent coding.

- 30% technical vision, defining direction, helping people figure out what problems to solve and how to solve them.

- 30% team assessments.

- Caring for your team members' career growth by developing and coaching them according to each individual's passions and strengths.

- Collaborating and coordinating with stakeholders and teams across the company to maximize your team's impact and influence.

Qualifications:

- At least 1 year of experience (more is better) as an Engineering Manager.

- Experience managing at least 3 engineers in person (not just remotely).

- At least 5 years of experience (more is better) as an Engineer.

- Having continued stay sharp in terms of technical ability despite moving into a management role, preferably with demonstrated expertise in backend software engineering.

- Expertise in at least one of these: 1) Java, 2) Go or Python.

- Startup experience. Demonstrated success in leading, growing, and coaching a small engineering team in fast-paced environments.

- Demonstrated success in leading, growing, and coaching a small engineering team in face-paced environments.

- Experience with multiple software development stacks across web, mobile, server, and infrastructure.

- Excellent technical communication and collaboration skills.

- Passionate about the craft of building great products.

- Dedication to your teammates and colleagues.

- Strong experience in one of these relevant areas of specialty: backend, full stack, front end, mobile, distributed systems, developer productivity, growth, internal tools.

- Not specialized in one of these irrelevant areas: infrastructure, data engineering, machine learning, big data.

Nice to have:

- Expertise with Java.

- Experience managing at least 10 people in person (not just remotely).

- Built products from zero to one in a startup environment.

- Built in ecommerce or SaaS.

- Experienced a variety of management styles at different companies and developed a personal viewpoint on management.

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