Engineering Leader – Infrastructure and Platform

Candid Health

Engineering Leader managing platform and infrastructure teams at Candid Health. Overseeing technical strategy, project execution, and team growth for healthcare workflows.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $225,000 - $322,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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 technical strategy: Partner with company and product leadership to understand and contribute to critical product components 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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

B.S. or B.A in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math or other similar degree.
6+ years of experience in a Software Engineering Leadership position, as a Senior Manager, or Manager of Managers.
Track record of successfully leading people and teams to build scalable and reliable distributed systems; including teams focused on Data and Infrastructure engineering.
Demonstrated excellence in 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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Total compensation may include equity
Potential for sales incentives
Employee benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

Software EngineeringDistributed SystemsData EngineeringInfrastructure EngineeringTechnical Decision MakingSystem ArchitectureProject ScopingBest PracticesPerformance ManagementMentoring

Soft Skills

LeadershipCollaborationCommunicationTeam ManagementAdvocacyProblem SolvingInfluencingMotivationTalent AcquisitionConciseness

Certifications

B.S. in Computer ScienceB.A. in Computer ScienceB.S. in Computer EngineeringB.A. in Computer EngineeringB.S. in MathematicsB.A. in Mathematics