Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. X4 Life Sciences is partnered with a fast-growing digital health organization whose technology connects patients, providers, and healthcare partners at scale. The Senior Software Engineering Manager will lead multiple engineering teams, set architectural direction, oversee end-to-end delivery, and guide security, compliance, infrastructure, and engineering improvements.
Responsibilities
- Leading and growing a group of engineers and engineering managers
- Setting architectural direction across customer-facing and partner-facing products, built on Ruby on Rails, Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL and AWS
- Owning delivery end to end, and making it something the business can count on
- Working alongside Product, Operations, Design and QA to turn complex requirements into shippable work
- Treating security and compliance as design decisions, not afterthoughts
- Using engineering metrics to drive real improvement rather than reporting
- Acting as senior escalation when something significant breaks
- Holding budget, vendor and infrastructure cost decisions
Skills
- Substantial experience across engineering, architecture and distributed systems
- Several years managing people, ideally including other managers or multiple teams
- Real hands-on depth with AWS, PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, Python and TypeScript/JavaScript — built and shipped, not just familiar with
- Background in scalable SaaS or consumer platforms, particularly anything transactional or logistics-heavy
- Confident with agile delivery, CI/CD and relational database design
- Someone who can talk technology with non-technical leaders and have both sides come away clearer
- Leadership experience in healthcare or another tightly regulated environment
- Familiarity with healthcare data, integrations or clinical systems
- Having scaled a team through a period of rapid growth, or led a major modernisation programme
- A postgraduate qualification in a technical or business discipline
Benefits
- Remote (US)
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