Engineering Manager
Adaptive Home Health
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Tech Stack
About the role
- Grow, support, and lead a high-performing engineering team, setting clear expectations and developing a culture of ownership and continuous improvement
- Support engineers’ growth through coaching, feedback, and clear development paths, while leading by example as a technical mentor
- Own architectural direction and technical decision-making, balancing speed, quality, and long-term scalability
- Define and drive the technical roadmap, ensuring alignment with company priorities and customer needs
- Proactively identify and resolve technical debt, infra challenges, and bottlenecks as we scale our platform and team
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Operations to translate real-world workflows into scalable, AI-powered product experiences
- Establish engineering best practices around code quality, testing, monitoring, and deployment in a fast-paced environment
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally having operated in a Tech Lead or Staff Engineering capacity, with recent experience leading technical projects
- Strong grasp of systems architecture, performance optimization, and reliability engineering
- Ability to navigate trade-offs between speed, quality, and business value in an early-stage environment
- Customer- and user-oriented mindset, with an ability to think beyond technical correctness to how features are experienced, adopted, and used in real-world workflows
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical decisions, align stakeholders, and collaborate effectively cross-team
- Preferred: Proven experience building and scaling robust backend systems (APIs, distributed services, and data pipelines)
- Familiarity with DevOps and infrastructure tooling (e.g., Docker, CI/CD, observability stacks, AWS or GCP)
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible time off policy — we expect most employees to take at least 3 weeks of vacation per year
- In-office lunches, dinners, and snacks to fuel your focus and well-being
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringsystems architectureperformance optimizationreliability engineeringbackend systemsAPIsdistributed servicesdata pipelinesDevOpsinfrastructure tooling
Soft Skills
leadershipcoachingfeedbacktechnical mentorshipcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingcustomer-oriented mindsetstakeholder alignmentcontinuous improvement