Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Hummingbird Healthcare is focused on enhancing patient access to healthcare services. As a Manager in Platform Engineering, you will lead a team responsible for building the organization's AI platform and integrations, ensuring smooth delivery and adherence to architectural standards while fostering team growth and cohesion.
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain architectural standards across data pipelines, application integrations, the semantic data layer, and the SkyNest AI platform, including CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and automated testing as the default way the team builds and ships
- Lead the team’s adoption of AI-native development, including AI-assisted coding, agent-driven automation, and prompt engineering, and establish repeatable patterns for building and operating AI agents that handle routine engineering tasks
- Manage capacity planning and delivery cadence across concurrent workstreams, making clear calls on scope, sequencing, and tradeoffs, and keeping delivery moving by removing blockers and communicating changes clearly
- Deploy Strike Teams against net-new, high-value projects, document the pattern, and hand it off to the broader team
- Review architectural decisions across workstreams, making calls or escalating tradeoffs that affect platform stability or long-term maintainability
- Build bench depth through Strike Team rotations and real-project embedding, identify capability gaps, and address them through targeted assignments, coaching, and direct feedback
- Own day-to-day technical decisions at the boundary between Platform Engineering and peer functions, including Security & Infrastructure and Enterprise Applications, without requiring escalation
- Serve as the technical voice of the team in cross-functional planning conversations, and hold the team accountable to commitments made in those conversations
- Run performance processes for your team, including regular 1:1s, formal reviews, onboarding, and performance improvement actions, and foster growth through coaching and real-project opportunities
- Translate strategy into team-level plans, priorities, and commitments, and communicate platform constraints, risks, and dependencies clearly to peer engineering leads and to the VP
- Contribute hands-on development work alongside the team, including building internal tooling and infrastructure, as a normal part of how this team operates at every level
Skills
- 4 to 6+ years of experience in software or platform engineering, including 1 to 2+ years leading people or projects, with a proven track record of driving team delivery, quality, and outcomes
- Demonstrated ability to lead a team through change, whether a merger, a shifting mission, or a significant practice reset, building cohesion and resetting expectations without waiting for the dust to settle
- Credibility to manage and coach engineers at or near the principal level, with the technical depth to hold the bar and the people skills to earn their trust
- Strong coaching, prioritization, and problem-solving skills in moderately ambiguous environments, with a demonstrated ability to turn strategy into team-level plans and hold engineers to clear performance expectations
- Track record setting and enforcing architectural standards across a platform, including CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and observability, and a history of leading teams through tooling or practice changes
- Proficiency with modern data pipeline architecture and application integration patterns
- Hands-on experience using AI-powered development tools, such as Claude, Cursor, Copilot, or similar, to build or ship something real, and the ability to bring that experience to a team as the way the team works, not a future goal
- Experience running small, high-velocity project teams and transitioning their outputs into broader team practice
- Strong communication and alignment skills across both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership
- Experience hiring, onboarding, or shaping team workflows in a platform or data engineering context
- Evidence of improving team consistency, quality, or efficiency through architectural changes, tooling upgrades, or process improvements
- Prior experience in a healthcare technology or similarly regulated environment, or comfort working in a start-up or rapidly growing environment
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Paid time off
- 401(k)
- Parental leave
- Career development support
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