Engineering Manager - Product
At a glance
Manager-level Engineering Leadership role at Candid Health. New York · full-time · $220,000–$322,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Set team priorities and balance customer needs against competing work as you drive delivery
- Guide project scoping and plan reviews, then help engineers implement the technical direction
- Lead engineering teams, shape effective team practices and coordinate with product and company leaders
- Coach direct reports, support career growth and recruit engineers alongside talent partners
- Use technical judgment and data to improve architecture, product quality, reliability and performance
What you bring
- At least six years in software engineering leadership as a technical lead, manager or manager of managers
- A bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, math or a related field
- A record of leading teams that shipped high-quality product features and delivered ambitious roadmaps
- Experience hiring and mentoring product-focused engineering teams
Who this fits
This role suits an engineering leader who can guide technical decisions while balancing hands-on architectural work with delegation, team development and cross-functional planning. It is an on-site position in New York.
From the employer
The Role
At Candid Health, we're seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to support and enable our Product Engineering 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.
Pay Transparency
The estimated starting annual base salary range for this position is $220,000 to $322,000 USD. The listed range is a guideline from Pave data, and the actual base salary may be modified based on factors including job-related skills, experience/qualifications, interview performance, market data, etc. Total compensation for this position may also include equity, sales incentives (for sales roles), and employee benefits. Given Candid Health’s funding and size, we heavily value the potential upside from equity in our compensation package. Further note that Candid Health has minimal hierarchy and titles, but has broad ranges of experience represented within roles.