Job Title:
Manager, Engineering
Location:
Austin or San Francisco Bay Area ideal; or Denver, Boston, NYC, Atlanta, Seattle, or Chicago secondary
About the Company
Wheel is evolving the traditional care ecosystem by equipping the nation's most innovative companies with a premier platform to deliver high-quality virtual care at scale. We offer proven strategies and cutting-edge technologies to foster consumer engagement, build brand loyalty, and maximize return on investment. Wheel solutions include configurable virtual care programs, an intuitive consumer interface, and access to a nationwide network of board-certified clinicians. Discover how Wheel is transforming the future of healthcare by visiting www.wheel.com.
About the Role
As an Engineering Manager at Wheel, you’ll be responsible for building software and running teams that are critical to the success of the company. You will lay the foundation for our engineering team, focused on creating technology platforms and products to support our mission to become the infrastructure of Virtual Care. In this position, you will work across the entire company, and closely with clients to define and deliver your goals. Your team will be responsible for expanding our platform by taking advantage of emerging technologies.
You will have the opportunity to be part of defining best-in-class solutions to virtual care problems. You are a true people leader; someone who believes in “we” before “me” and your team’s motivation, growth, and wellbeing first. You are self-motivated, versatile, and compassionate, and can work equally well in highly collaborative settings as well as those with little direction.
What You’ll Do
Support, mentor and grow your engineers to help them continuously improve.
Ensure we’re constantly moving our product forward in a build-learn-iterate model.
Mentor and guide your team in best-practices for modern web products and distributed systems.
Be ‘hands on’ - you can still code alongside your team.
Collaborate with product, design, and leadership to ideate and develop winning products that help move the business forward.
Design, build, deploy and maintain systems and user experiences that scale with a high growth company.
Take ownership of new features, big and small, analyzing system and business metrics post-release.
Lead the team responsible for AI innovation on the Wheel platform
Who You Are
3+ years of management experience required.
Aptitude for working in a collaborative environment as an empathetic teammate.
6+ years of experience with full-stack development, building real-world web applications in production environments required.
You can operate autonomously and have a strong desire to make an impact.
Exemplary communication skills; able to explain possible solutions to non-technical team members.
Startup experience or experience building highly scalable products. Growth startup experience - series A/B is ideal.
Proven ability to learn new technologies quickly.
Thrives in a collaborative and diverse environment.
Experience with artificial intelligence (AI) required.
A degree in computer science or related fields is preferred but not required.
Additional Technical Competencies Highly Preferred:
Node/TypeScript
Ruby
React and Vue
PostgreSQL
AWS
Docker and Kubernetes
Kafka
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