Engineering Team Lead

Are you interested in leading a small team and seeing that team's code positively impact countless patients' lives every day by building the future of healthcare? Do you still want to stay in the weeds technically at this point in your career? Are you hopeful about what data and medical research can do to improve medicine?

PatientIQ is looking for an experienced Engineering Team Lead / Engineering Manager who can lead the development of an early-stage data offering from inception to launch (0-1) and through the entire product lifecycle. As a member of the PatientIQ team, you will partner with a Product Manager and your team of engineers, to create a new core parts of our platform.

About Us

PatientIQ is a fast-growing health tech company empowering healthcare providers, industry, researchers, and others to collaborate on the mission to improve patient outcomes. PatientIQ is headquartered in Chicago and backed by top-tier west coast venture capital, major hospital investors, and others.

What You'll Work On

• PatientIQ Data Platform: enable enrichment, normalization, and benchmarking of patient outcomes data to power enhanced insights and predictive capabilities.
• PatientIQ Network: build the largest peer network for healthcare providers to collaborate, share de-identified data, and investigate rare diseases and novel techniques to push the boundaries of medicine
• Analytics Autopilot: advance the capabilities of our analytics engine to offer more sophisticated predictions, data visualizations, and insights
• 3rd Party Integrations: grow our library of 3rd party integrations, including electronic medical records, wearables, and other healthcare partners
• Scaling: refactor existing systems and optimize the platform for scaling and increasing data flow
  

Technologies we use

• Ruby on Rails, RSpec, Capybara, Selenium, CircleCI
• JavaScript, React, Jest, React Testing Library, Highcharts
• PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch

Requirements

Role Responsibilities

• Manage and lead a team of 3-5 engineers and associated agile rituals like standups, planning, and retrospectives.
• Align your team around product OKRs/KPIs that you jointly focus on driving.
• Work with product managers and designers to build and realize new product features.
• Report on project statuses to the company.
• Perform peer code reviews to ensure the team is producing well-tested and maintainable code.
• Evangelize our software development best practices within the team.
• Active development with proper test coverage
• Support and optimize our critical production environment.

What we look for:

• 5+ years of experience building web applications.
• 2+ years of experience leading multi-person projects in some capacity.
• 1+ years of experience in some form of leading, mentoring, or managing engineers.
• 2+ years of first-hand professional experience with Ruby on Rails.
• Experience working with clinical data, including a strong understanding of medical terminology, healthcare data standards (e.g., HL7, FHIR), and interoperability challenges.
• Experience building modern, external (customer-facing) data products. Thorough understanding of data engineering concepts.
• Desire to work in a collaborative environment: interactions with the leadership team, product managers, and customer success teams.

What to expect from our interview process:

1) Recruiter Phone Screen

2) Hiring Manager Interview

3) Assignment and Review Session

4) Panel consisting of:

• System Design Interview
• Past Project Interview
• Collaboration Interview

Benefits

• Meaningful equity - our employees own a stake in PatientIQ and are emboldened to build something great
• Unlimited paid time off - we trust you to take the time you need when you feel it is appropriate, given your workload and responsibilities. No need to track it or save up.
• Comprehensive benefits package including top-notch health, dental, vision insurance, and 401K.
• Remote friendly - now and always
• Virtual happy hours, lunch and learns, team demo days, company outings, and more