Job description
What if you could personally impact the future of healthcare? As part of the PocketHealth team, you will enable hospitals and clinics across North America — and more importantly, empower over 2 million patients — to discover a better healthcare experience.
PocketHealth is a patient-centric platform that enables hospitals and clinics across North America to share imaging records digitally with patients, instantly and securely. Through our platform, we enable patients to be active and engaged participants in their own care, and take control of their care journey. In addition to image sharing, which is the heart of the PocketHealth platform, we’ve grown our core functionality to enable sharing between hospitals and physicians, as well as instant image retrieval and automated importing capability. PocketHealth is a unified image management solution for over 800 hospitals and clinics across North America. We believe that by placing patients at the center of the record release process, data moves more ethically, easily and securely throughout the care journey, and we’re looking for passionate individuals to help make this vision a reality for millions more patients across North America.
We are seeking an experienced and hands-on Engineering Manager to lead a team of experienced, collegial, and supportive engineers; who is eager to learn, teach and ultimately make a difference. This role offers a unique opportunity to blend technical expertise with people management skills, as you guide your team towards success while remaining deeply involved in the codebase. You will collaborate with our Product & Design teams on our roadmap and functionality, and have the opportunity to apply your expertise towards building the next generation of our core infrastructure.
In this role you will:
- Lead a team of 5-7 engineers, providing guidance, support, and hands-on mentoring to foster their professional growth and development.
- Dive into the codebase alongside your team, dedicating roughly 50% of your time to hands-on technical contributions, code reviews, and mentorship.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to define and execute our product roadmap, continuously iterating to deliver impactful solutions and meet user needs.
- Participate in design and discovery sessions for new features and product concepts, leveraging your technical expertise to drive innovation.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement within your team and across the organization.
- Manage the performance, career progression, and well-being of your direct reports, conducting regular 1:1s, performance evaluations, and providing actionable feedback.
- Work closely with stakeholders to prioritize projects, remove roadblocks, and ensure the successful delivery of high-quality scalable solutions, with a particular focus on non-critical path tasks
- Engage in purpose-driven in-office collaboration. This includes biweekly Engineering team onsite days, weekly 1:1s with your team, planning sessions, and other work that could bring you into the office multiple days a week. Ideally, you enjoy working onsite and are open to being in the office as needed for intentional collaboration
What you’ll need to be successful:
- 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, including 2+ years in a management/people leadership role.
- A strong Full Stack skill set and a proven track record of delivering high-quality, scalable software solutions.
- Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.
- Previous experience in a leadership or management role, with demonstrated ability to lead and mentor a team of engineers.
- Experience with hands-on technical contributions, including code reviews, architectural discussions, and debugging.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset, with the ability to partner effectively with teams across the organization.
- Deep technical expertise, including CI/CD, testing methodologies, and scalable architecture design.
- Previous experience in a startup or high-growth environment is a plus.
Technologies we use:
- Go, Angular, TypeScript, C#
You can do amazing things at PocketHealth. You can positively impact the healthcare journey for millions of people, while building your career and developing your skills. It doesn’t have to be one or the other. It has been a part of our mission since our founding to empower patients & make healthcare accessible to all, and we know this can only be achieved with a team of diverse perspectives that is representative of the Patient & Provider communities we serve.
PocketPHolk love working here for these reasons and more; working remotely, our competitive salaries and benefits (stock options too!), four weeks of paid time off, unlimited wellness days, extended mental health coverage and beyond - it’s important to us that our PocketPHolk are taken care of in the same way we take care of our Patients & Providers.
If there are ways we can support you through the recruitment process with an accommodation, please let us know by reaching out to [email protected]. Applications are accepted via posting only.
