(Remote Work) Engineering Lead – Marigold Health

• Technical Leadership: Provide expert guidance in backend (TypeScript, Node.js), frontend web (Next.js, React), frontend mobile (Expo, React Native), and core infrastructure tools (tRPC, Mono Repo, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, APM).
• Architecture and Design: Lead architectural and design decisions to ensure scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems.
• Code Quality and Review: Own the codebase; conduct code reviews and implement refactors to uphold high standards in coding, security, and best practices.
• Security and Compliance: Establish security standards across the codebase, ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations (e.g., HIPAA, NIST) and mitigating potential vulnerabilities.
• Risk Management: Proactively identify project risks, monitor progress, and implement mitigation strategies to meet timelines and ensure project quality.
• Process Improvement: Identify and implement opportunities to optimize engineering workflows, enhance efficiency, and support team growth.
• Agile Implementation: Design and implement Agile-based practices for development, testing, and deployment, ensuring smooth and efficient sprint execution.
• Quality Assurance and Testing: Develop and enforce QA and automated testing strategies to ensure product reliability and reduce bugs in production.
• Project Delivery: Oversee and manage project timelines, resource allocation, and budgets to ensure projects are delivered on time and meet quality benchmarks.
• User-Centric Development: Prioritize user experience in technical decisions, especially within the healthcare context, and ensure accessible, inclusive features.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product, design, and other teams to align goals, communicate technical needs, and facilitate effective collaboration.
• Team Development: Recruit, mentor, and build high-performing engineering teams, fostering an environment of continuous learning, innovation, and collaboration.
• Documentation: Maintain clear, detailed technical documentation, including system architecture, design specifications, and API references for future scalability and knowledge sharing.

• 4-9 years in software engineering, with at least 2 years in a lead role managing team output.
• Minimum 1 year in healthcare technology preferred; deeper healthcare experience may offset fewer years of total experience.
• Proven ability to manage and support remote engineering teams across multiple time zones.

Technical Skills & Expertise:

• Backend Technologies: Expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, and infrastructure tools like tRPC and Docker.
• Frontend Web: Proficiency in Next.js, React.
• Frontend Mobile: Experience with Expo and React Native, with an understanding of UX principles.
• Development Environment: Experience with MonoRepo setups, CI/CD pipelines, and familiarity with key vendors (e.g., Twilio, PubNub, New Relic, Sentry, Aptible).
• Security & Compliance: Experience with security and regulatory compliance frameworks in healthcare (SOC2, NIST) is a plus.
• Systems Design: Demonstrated ability to design and develop systems for scale, performance, security, and availability.
• Leadership & Team Development: Skilled in hiring, mentoring, and leading high-performing engineering teams, fostering a collaborative and productive remote work environment.
• Performance Management: Ability to set and implement KPIs for team performance, engineering efficiency, and operational success.
• Problem Solving & Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with a track record of technical innovation and data-driven decision-making.
• Complex Problem Decomposition: Able to break down complex business problems and work collaboratively to develop effective solutions.
• Operational Excellence: High standards for code quality, DevOps practices, performance optimization, and resource utilization.
• Risk Assessment & Prioritization: Experience in risk assessment, time estimation, and prioritizing and delegating work effectively.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Strong communication skills to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, facilitating alignment across departments (product, design, UX/UI).
• Project Alignment: Proven experience driving collaboration and alignment on cross-functional projects.
• Documentation: Proficient in creating and maintaining clear technical documentation, including design specifications, system architecture, and API documentation.

Preferred Tech Stack:

• SDLC (integrating security testing and other activities into an existing development process)
• Mobile development in React native, its core libraries, native mobile
• Web development with React, Typescript
• Server development in Node.js, Express, Feathers, Postgres
• Common Vendors: Twillio, Pubnub, New Relic, Sentry, Docker, Aptible (our compute partner)
• Requirements and process of a compliance audit

Nice-to-have:

• Experience building production ready products that have gone through HIPAA, HITRUST, NIST certification (strongly preferred)
• Startup ex-founder / CTO
• Experience at a mid-stage startup

Who You Are:

• Motivated by our mission to give every single patient with a mental health condition a unique voice
• Excited by and curious about new technologies and tools
• Professional and patient when interacting with internal and external stakeholders
• Proactive in self-directing your work to areas of high impact
• Methodical and organized within an unstructured environment
• Prompt, responsive, curious and communicative, especially about new things