Director of Engineering – Foundations

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Oversee the health, technical direction, and output of the Foundations group, which encompasses Platform, DevOps, and Data Engineering.

• Maintain comprehensive accountability for intricate, multi-team projects such as EMR integrations, the migration from MySQL to Postgres, background jobs, feature flags, and enhancements to the data platform.

• Ensure reliability, security, and operational integrity of platform, data, and cloud infrastructure.

• Manage service level objectives (SLOs), capacity planning, on-call rotations, alerting, and governance of incident response.

• Propel initiatives from initial definition through to delivery while maintaining accountability for results.

• Act as the primary escalation and request channel into the Foundations group.

• Collaborate with Product Engineering and Data & Analytics leadership to devise scalable infrastructure solutions.

• Work cross-functionally with stakeholders from product, data, clinical, security, and executive domains.

• Direct the architectural vision across integration patterns, caching infrastructure, shared services, data pipelines, and cloud environments.

• Serve as the senior technical escalation point and lead architecture and design evaluations.

• Advocate for AI-assisted engineering workflows, tooling, patterns, and best practices.

• Establish engineering standards, architectural patterns, coding conventions, and documentation methodologies.

• Oversee hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development within the Foundations team.

• Promote observability and telemetry standards utilizing tools such as Datadog, Sentry, and Mixpanel.

• Facilitate post-incident analyses, systemic enhancements, measurement frameworks, and knowledge sharing.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years in software engineering, with substantial leadership experience managing engineering teams and Tech Leads/managers.

• Proven history of talent development and enhancing team performance over time.

• Demonstrated experience leading multiple teams across platform, infrastructure, or data sectors in production, along with driving technical strategy, architecture, and execution for complex, cross-functional projects.

• Strong background in systems design encompassing backend infrastructure, platform reliability, data architecture, security/compliance, and cost optimization.

• Sufficient technical knowledge to lead architecture reviews and gain the respect of senior and staff engineers.

• Hands-on experience with TypeScript/Node.js, Google Cloud Platform, Terraform, and enterprise data warehousing and pipelines (Snowflake, dbt).

• Active and proficient utilization of AI tools in personal workflows, with a clear perspective on responsible adoption within engineering organizations.

• Proven ability to take ownership of outcomes from start to finish in ambiguous, fast-paced settings.

• Strong systems thinking capabilities, with the ability to understand how decisions affect users, teams, and products.

• Evidence of fostering and supporting a robust feedback culture, including both giving and receiving feedback.

• Ability to make decisions with incomplete information and effectively engage teams in the process.

• Previous experience in digital health or other regulated technology sectors (HIPAA, PHI, SOC 2, HITRUST) is a plus.

• Direct experience with integrating Electronic Health Record platforms, health data infrastructure, or wearable API ecosystems is advantageous.

• Experience in establishing AI-assisted engineering workflows at either team or organizational levels is desirable.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits, fully covered by Atria, effective from the date of hire.

• OneMedical membership for employees and their dependents, providing access to 24/7 virtual care.

• Support for fertility and family planning.

• Company-sponsored preventive health screenings through partner hospitals (calcium score).

• Fitness perks, including Wellhub +.

• 401k contributions with a 4% match after 6 months of employment.

• Flexible Time Off policy.

• Continuing medical education (CME) and CEU support for professional licensure.