Engineering Manager - Job Description

Brightside Health delivers life-saving virtual mental healthcare to everyone who needs it. We are powered by proprietary AI, purpose-built technology, a world-class clinician network, and a care model that rivals the best of in-person treatment. When combined with precision psychiatry and leading-edge therapeutic techniques, we’re able to improve outcomes for those with mild-to-severe clinical depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders.

We take an action-oriented, purposeful approach with everything we do and seek out team members who value collaboration and thoughtful prioritization. As a result, our organization is looking for the brightest and most innovative talent in the industry. We can promise you that, as a member of the Brightside team, you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate alongside smart and driven people while growing your professional skills.

The team you’ll lead:

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead the Operational Efficiency team reporting directly to the Director of Software Engineering. In this role, you will be responsible for managing and mentoring a team of engineers delivering quality code while maintaining productivity in a supportive environment. You will partner closely with Product, Design, and Data to meet objectives.

The Operational Efficiency team is focused on making Brightside’s operations and member support more manageable and efficient. The team builds tools and services to support many internal teams such as Finance, HR, and Credentialing as well as other Product+Engineering teams to ultimately drive efficient and outstanding care delivery to our patients.

What you’ll be doing as Engineering Manager:

• Mentor, manage, and grow a team of senior, full stack engineers.
• Create an atmosphere of support, flexibility, and collaboration, where everyone feels their talents are fully applied and reflected in our product.
• Spend, on average, 20% of your time coding, to maintain an objective, first-hand perspective aligned with that of your team.
• Define and champion quality of code and velocity of development.
• Work with leadership to provide a career growth path for every engineer.
• Work closely with Product, Design, and Data to ensure your team is delivering value aligned with our objectives.

You Value:

• Patient safety and data security.
• Clean, simple, readable code.
• Robust automated testing (ideally rspec/capybara/react-testing-library).
• Full code ownership: front end, back end, dev ops, and more.
• DRY and YAGNI all day, every day.
• Building a deep partnership with Product
• Balancing execution with longer term team strategy, where the needs of the codebase itself, as well as your stakeholders, engineers, and product partners all have a voice
• Small, frequent releases to production to maximize value, get fast feedback, and identify bugs early.

Requirements:

• At least 6 years of full stack web development experience; preferably experience with Rails and React.
• Experience in a Team or Tech Lead position
• Managed teams of 5 or more direct-reports for at least 3 years.
• High degree of empathy and compassion and a strong conviction towards concrete outcomes for both your team as a whole, as well as each individual.
• Thrive in fast-paced environments with tight feedback loops and continuous delivery.
• Comfortable working in a 100% remote environment.

Preferred Requirements:

• Built/supported HIPAA-compliant (or other similarly regulated) applications.
• Product management experience.
• Worked in a startup that’s grown from 20—>200 employees.

Benefits:

• A competitive salary: $170,000 to $200,000
• Stock options so you have equity
• Fully paid for comprehensive health care (medical, dental, vision)
• Pet Insurance
• 401k Plan
• Unlimited PTO and sick leave
• Parental Leave
• Work remotely and whatever schedule works best for you.
• Additional memberships and perks

Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including geographic location as well as candidate experience and expertise. If you have questions on compensation bands, please ask your recruiter.

Brightside Health is committed to equal employment opportunities for all team members. Inside our company, every decision we make regarding our employees is based on merit, competence, and performance, completely free of discrimination. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We realize the full promise of diversity and want you to bring your whole self to work every single day.

Research shows that women and other minority groups typically apply only if they meet 100% of the criteria listed. At Brightside, we are dedicated to fair play, and we encourage women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ job seekers to apply for positions even if they don’t check every box for the role.

We know that diversity makes for the best problem-solving and creative thinking, and are committed to equity and inclusion. We are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and encourage everyone to apply if your experience is close to what we are looking for. We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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