Engineering Manager

About Us

InStride Health's mission is to deliver specialty anxiety and OCD care that works for every kid, teen, young adult, and family who needs it. Through this mission, we are expanding access to insurance-based care, increasing engagement in treatment, and improving treatment outcomes. We are doing this by combining research-backed clinical care and innovative technology to eliminate the major problems with care today: difficulty finding providers, months of waiting to be seen, arduous onboarding processes, and inconsistent use of evidence-based therapies and outcomes tracking. Our vision is to become the nation's most trusted provider of pediatric anxiety and OCD care.

Team InStride Health: Our Core Values

• Give Heart : We lead with heart, treating patients and their families the way we want our loved ones to be treated.
• Work Smart : We find smarter ways to solve hard problems and fix the broken mental health system by leveraging technology, diversity of thought, and innovation.
• Have Humility : We leave our egos at the door, empowering our team to collaborate, celebrate diversity, and adopt a growth mindset.
• Embrace Community: We all belong. We are in this together, and we never worry alone. We believe in each other and recognize that every voice matters.

About the Role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to help lead our product engineering teams as they design and develop workflows and integrations to better support our clinical staff and the patients and families that enroll with InStride. In this role, you will lead and manage a single engineering team, working closely with our product team and lead platform architect to break down and scope technical projects, owning ground-up and top-down roadmap items and priorities, and lending your experience to ensure the success of projects. You will be responsible for the team's execution, delivery, health, and the career growth of its members. This is a fully remote position.

Responsibilities:

• Partner closely with the product team and stakeholders to break down, scope, and oversee the delivery of technical projects, ensuring well-built, scalable solutions for clinical staff, patients, and families.
• Oversee the design and development of maintainable, scalable software systems that are thoroughly tested, documented, and monitored.
• Lead and mentor a team of full-stack engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement through constructive feedback and teaching best practices.
• Work with internal product and design teams to translate business needs into practical, high-impact technology solutions.
• Supervise the creation and management of robust integrations between InStride and third-party systems.
• Partner with support teams to diagnose and resolve production issues quickly, ensuring reliable service for patients and their families.
• Act as a creative, agile leader who drives the team to push new features and code every iteration.

Tech Stack

• Golang
• React/Typescript
• AWS cloud infrastructure

What You Need to Succeed in the Role

• 2+ years of experience managing or leading engineering teams in building and deploying advanced web applications and services into production.
• A proven track record of mentoring less-experienced engineers, conducting thoughtful code reviews, and coaching career growth.
• Experience working in Healthcare Technologies is a plus.
• Experience leading projects that involve creating and implementing AI/ML integrations is a plus.
• A strong understanding of complex data integrations, APIs, webhooks, and other popular integration methods.
• Solid understanding of how to prioritize projects and make critical tradeoffs between "nice-to-haves" and "must-haves".
• You find defects and architectural problems when reviewing code.
• You can architect systems that will scale beyond today's expected usage.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical information clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proficiency in debugging production issues.
• Comfortable working at a startup which moves fast with tight deadlines.
• You collaborate well with others and are dedicated to the company's success.
• Frequently share your opinions and provide thoughtful feedback.
• You are comfortable learning on the job and working with unfamiliar tools.
• Familiarity with our tech stack is a plus.

The expected annual salary for this role is between $148,000-$165,000. Actual starting salary will be determined on an individualized basis and will be based on several factors including but not limited to specific skill set, work experience, etc.

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Why Join Our Team

• Generous benefits package (401k with match, Flexible PTO, paid holidays, 4 week paid sabbatical, 12 week paid parental leave, health benefits starting on your first day, and more)
• Opportunity to join a mission-driven company that is changing the landscape of pediatric mental health treatment
• Chance to make a far-reaching impact by helping children and families access desperately-needed, evidence-based care
• Opportunity to work with talented and experienced team members who have devoted their lives to solving this problem
• Fully virtual: work from the comfort of your home with periodic in-person retreats

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging (DEIB)

We want to make our clinical services available for everyone, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or how you identify. To achieve this, we recognize we must continually make progress in building a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive team. Through these efforts, we support two primary objectives at InStride Health:

• Providing high quality patient care to families. We are in a privileged position to support families during a vulnerable time in their lives. We approach all families and each other with compassion and are most effective as a diverse team where all individuals feel valued, respected, and accepted.
• Building a mission-driven business that lasts. Specifically, we believe our commitment to a supportive culture improves innovation, decision-making, and efficiency.

We invite you to share any additional information about yourself or your experiences that may not be reflected in your CV. Inclusion of this information is completely voluntary.

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