Engineering Manager

The core responsibilities for the job include the following:

Engineering Leadership and People Management:

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 5-12 full-stack and backend engineers.
• Run structured 1:1s, quarterly performance reviews, and career development conversations.
• Drive hiring for the India engineering org, interview, assess, and onboard engineers.
• Foster a culture of ownership, psychological safety, and continuous improvement.

Technical Architecture:

• Collaborate with senior engineers and US architects on system design and technical direction.
• Lead architecture reviews for new features and platform changes.
• Make sound technology trade-off decisions across the MERN + PostgreSQL + AWS stack.
• Ensure systems are designed for scalability, observability, and HIPAA compliance.

Code Quality and Process:

• Own and evolve the code review process, set standards, enforce them, and lead by example.
• Define and roll out engineering best practices: branching strategy, PR workflows, testing standards, and documentation.
• Establish sprint cadences, definition of done, and engineering SLAs in coordination with product.
• Drive incident response practices and post-mortem culture.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Partner with Product Management and US leads to refine roadmap items into engineering-ready specs.
• Participate in architecture discussions around FHIR R4 EHR integrations and data pipelines.
• Provide engineering effort estimates and technical risk assessments for planning cycles.

Tech Stack and Environment:

• Frontend: React.js, React Native (mobile).
• Backend: Node.js (Express), REST APIs.
• Database: PostgreSQL (multi-schema, complex queries, views).
• Cloud and Infra: AWS (ECS, RDS, ALB, Cognito, S3 CloudWatch), us-east-1 Multi-AZ.
• Integrations: HL7 FHIR R4 Mirth Connect, Epic App Orchard, Athenahealth.

Requirements:

• 8-13 years of total software engineering experience, with 4+ years managing or technically leading a team.
• Strong hands-on proficiency in Node.js and React.js (MERN minus MongoDB).
• Deep experience with PostgreSQL schema design, query optimization, and connection management.
• Proven ability to lead architecture discussions and technical design reviews.
• Experience running or significantly contributing to engineering process setup: code review culture, sprint processes, on-call/incident management.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, comfortable with async US-India collaboration.

Preferred:

• Hands-on AWS experience with ECS, RDS, ALB, or similar managed services.
• Familiarity with Mirth Connect or healthcare interoperability middleware.
• Prior startup or scale-up experience where you helped build engineering culture from scratch.