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The company partners with health plans and risk-bearing providers to assume accountability for reduced total cost of care. By combining technology-enabled MSK providers with proactive care coordination and decision support services, Icon Health delivers multidisciplinary, evidence-based care.\nWe founded Icon Health on the conviction that every patient should be genuinely delighted with their care experience. By prioritizing patient-centered practices, ensuring clear care goals across the entire clinical team, and placing clinicians at the heart of care delivery, we aim to transform a fragmented system into one that truly serves patients. Our model uses a team-based approach to care, integrating musculoskeletal expertise and primary care to achieve better patient outcomes.\nAt Icon Health, we foster a culture that embraces bold thinking, rapid iteration, and practical problem-solving. 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Above all, we value individuals who are eager to roll up their sleeves, tackle obstacles head-on, and create innovative solutions that improve the lives of our patients and our clinical partners.\n\nWhat You'll Do:\n\nManage, mentor, and hire software or systems engineers while setting clear performance expectations and growth plans.\n\nEnsure all technology, data handling, and software products strictly follow healthcare laws like HIPAA and safety standards\n\nPartner with clinicians, product managers, and security teams to turn clinical or operational needs into technical solutions.\n\nContinue Build a healthy remote team culture with strong written communication and ownership mindset\n\nOversee complex technology initiatives, manage resource allocation, and track project milestones and budgets. \n\nGuide architectural decisions, support cloud infrastructure and SAAS integrations, and maintain high standards for system reliability.\n\nEnforce data access and handling standards to encrypt Protected Health Information (PHI) both at rest and in transit, keeping applications compliant with HIPAA.\n\nEnsure teams build accessible, intuitive, and responsive UI components that staff can navigate quickly and efficiently during critical patient care.\n\nMaintain and optimize the team's engineering stack\n\nWrite production code in Python, TypeScript and SQL, and contribute to DBT models and data pipelines\n\nReview pull requests and set the bar for code quality, testing and documentation\n\nLead technical design for new services, integrations and data flows\n\nStep in on incidents, debugging and on-call escalation when needed\n\nManage automated testing, continuous integration, and deployment pipelines to push application updates without disrupting clinical operations. \n\nReport progress, risks and metrics to the CTO and Business Leadership\n\nOther Duties As Assigned\n\nWhat You'll Bring:\n7+ years in software or data engineering, including 2+ years managing engineers\n\nStill writing code: strong in Python and SQL, JavaScript/TypeScript\n\nHands-on experience with a major cloud platform, ideally GCP\n\nA track record of putting engineering processes in place (agile delivery, code review, CI/CD) that held up as a team grew\n\nExperience automating manual workflows and building internal tools\n\nExperience with regulated or sensitive data, and a working understanding of security fundamentals\n\nClear written communication and comfort leading a remote team\n\nSound judgment on build vs. buy, technical debt and trade-offs\n\nNice to Have:\nHealthcare experience, including HIPAA, and PHI handling\n\nHealthcare data experience such as claims, member, provider or clinical/EHR data, and standards like HL7 or FHIR\n\nExperience with SOC 2 or HITRUST controls\n\nWe are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based upon age, color, handicap or disability, ethnic or national origin, race, religion, religious creed, gender (including discrimination taking the form of sexual harassment), marital, parental or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.\nJob Type: Full Time. 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