Engineering Manager, Backend Services

Role

We’re looking for a highly technical Engineering Manager to lead a senior team of engineers building mission-critical backend services built in Python. The ideal candidate for this role is driven to deliver and has a track record of drawing out technical excellence from the teams they manage with a high bar for quality. This role focuses on backend systems that are also data intensive.

SmarterDx builds clinical AI that empowers hospitals to achieve 100% chart accuracy for revenue integrity. Our solution helps hospitals tell the most accurate and complete story of the patient and the care that was delivered, which helps them recover millions in earned revenue and improve quality of care scores. Become a Smartian and help optimize the way the healthcare system works for everyone. Learn more at smarterdx.com/careers.

**This role is fully remote within the US**

What You’ll Do

• Be accountable for all aspects of the team’s performance including velocity of feature delivery, quality, operational excellence, hiring, retention, professional growth, and well-being
• Build robust, well tested services and capabilities
• Design, build and launch new features and improve the overall quality of our internal and external services
• Collaborate across disciplines to understand our users and iterate on new ideas
• Support our services and systems in production
• Contribute to engineering standards, system design reviews, and best practices around scale, operational excellence, testing and cloud-native systems

What You Bring

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• 2+ years as an engineering manager
• Expertise in Python
• Experience of owning products from development, through delivery to live support and maintenance
• Expertise running an agile process (preferably Kanban) for a team and fluency with the agile toolkit
• Extensive experience working with product managers to shape and define requirements into small, incremental business-valuable deliverables
• Deep experience designing and implementing microservice-based, event-driven architectures, especially on Kubernetes
• Excellent communication and team collaboration skills
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience integrating with FHIR APIs
• Experience at a scale-up, or rapid growth, technology company 
• Experience in the health tech domain, particularly in hospital billing systems

Our Stack

Python, Postgres, AWS, Kubernetes, Lambda, Snowflake, Terraform, SNS, SQS

Compensation

$230K to $270K base salary + equity incentives

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