The Role At Candid Health, we're seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to
support and enable our technical team in planning, executing, and delivering
the Candid platform to our healthcare provider customers who rely on it for
mission-critical financial and operational workflows. Your team will be
responsible for building and maintaining key components of a complex and and
evolving architecture according to industry best in class quality, durability
and performance standards. In this role, you will be part of a deeply cross-
functional team, responsible for guiding and collaborating with skilled
engineers and tech leads, fostering their growth and ensuring they contribute
effectively. Collaboration with company leadership, sales, and product teams
will be crucial as you help define and execute our long-term product strategy.
What You’ll Do Act as a steward of results and deliver outcomes: Leveraging an
expansive breadth of ownership for the priorities of both our teams and
customers, you will have critical influence on balancing competing needs and
managing tradeoffs. Oversee and lead implementation: Support your team in
executing against the technical vision. Scoping projects and reviewing plans
are a levered use of your time to achieve our collective vision. You’ll also
become familiar with our codebase and drive best practices for design,
delivery and collaboration across multiple organizations. Manage technical
teams: Lead one or more efficient, successful, and motivated teams. Experiment
with and implement the team systems that work to achieve your teams’ outcomes.
Collaborate with product, leadership, and others within engineering to build
Candid’s flagship products. You will influence direction for technical leads
and individual contributors. Mentor and grow people: Investing in Candid’s
growth means investing in the development of the people we hire. In this role
you will help define pathways to grow for your team, both in formal
performance management and organic opportunities to take on more scope. Define
product technical strategy: Partner with company and product leadership to
understand and contribute to critical product and company strategy. With that
in mind, you will be entrusted to design the systems, architecture, and
processes to build in order to hit short-term and long-term objectives.
Responsibilities Owning engineering practice, you are responsible for building
and maintaining critical services and features Leading teams in planning,
prioritization, tracking, through delivery of impactful results Supporting
teams in achieving and preserving a high level of technical quality,
reliability, and developer satisfaction Influencing partners and peers to
identify obstacles to delivery and improve on our products while eliminating
friction and redundancies Make data driven decisions on your sphere of
ownership to continually improve reliability, performance, scale, and reduce
operational load Diving deep into software architecture, leveraging domain
knowledge to achieve business objectives. Recruiting exceptional engineers and
managers in collaboration with Candid’s talent acquisition team Mentor and
coach your direct reports and those around you, working with your peers to
create healthy and well-executing teams that grow with equal velocity to the
business Who You Are You have Bachelors of Science or Bachelors of Art in
Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math or other similar degree. You have
6+ years of experience in a Software Engineering Leadership position, as a
technical lead, manager, or manager of managers. You’ve successfully led
people and teams to shipping high-quality features in strategic product areas.
You’ve managed and executed against ambitious roadmaps You have a track record
of excellent technical decision making; you know the right architecture and
patterns to build functional, durable, and maintainable product. You know how
to manage in multiple directions, including laterally and upward: you know how
to advocate for yourself and your team: where to get into the weeds and where
to delegate. You have successfully interviewed, hired, and mentored product
focused engineering teams. You collaborate well with staffing partners and
stakeholders through all phases of the hiring lifecycle and are a talent
magnet. You’re a clear and concise communicator; you enjoy the challenge of
explaining complicated ideas in simple terms, both in-person and in writing.
