Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Form Health is a virtual obesity medicine clinic delivering evidence-based obesity treatment through telemedicine. The Engineering Manager will lead a team of engineers to develop clinical-grade software that enhances patient and care team experiences, ensuring reliable and scalable systems that meet healthcare standards.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and grow a small (but growing) team of engineers delivering business-critical clinical, operational, and patient-facing systems
- Establish clear goals and execution plans aligned with product and company priorities
- Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Provide direct feedback, mentorship, and career development for engineers at multiple levels
- Level up the team: raise the technical and delivery bar through pairing, code review, and hands-on coaching, and grow engineers' fluency with modern, AI-native delivery practices
- Hire thoughtfully to strengthen team capability and long-term scalability
- Guide architectural decisions across backend services, workflows, integrations, internal tools, and patient-facing web and mobile experiences
- Partner closely with senior engineers to ensure systems are reliable, scalable, secure, and maintainable
- Maintain strong technical fluency across systems built with technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Node.js, React / Next.js, React Native, TypeScript, and AWS-based infrastructure
- Ensure healthy CI/CD pipelines and safe deployment practices that support incremental delivery in a regulated healthcare environment
- Champion small-batch, continuous delivery—small PRs, short-lived branches, feature flags, and tight feedback loops—so the team ships safely and frequently
- Drive an agentic, AI-native approach to building software: lead as a manager of agents, and coach engineers to make AI developer tools (e.g., Claude Code) a core part of how they design, build, test, and review—without compromising engineering rigor
- Use DORA metrics and other delivery signals to continuously raise the team's throughput and stability
- Identify technical risks early and lead mitigation strategies before they impact care delivery
- Oversee development of the experiences patients rely on daily (onboarding and activation, video visits, secure messaging, photo and data journaling, device and health-data integrations) and the systems that power the care team (clinical charting, scheduling, task management, care coordination, automation, and intelligent workflow enhancements)
- Drive measurable improvements in the outcomes that matter for your team—engagement, activation, retention, reliability, efficiency, and clinician experience
- Ensure experiences meet a high bar for accessibility (WCAG/ADA), performance, and reliability
- Ensure systems handle patient data safely and operate within HIPAA and broader healthcare regulatory requirements
- Support thoughtful integration of automation and AI capabilities where appropriate, always prioritizing human oversight and patient safety
- Partner closely with product, design, clinical, and operations leaders to define roadmaps and deliver measurable impact
- Translate complex, evolving business and clinical requirements into clear engineering plans
- Provide structure and clarity in ambiguous problem spaces
- Balance speed of delivery with operational reliability and long-term platform health
Skills
- 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams
- Prior experience as a senior or staff-level engineer before moving into management
- Leading delivery of complex production systems—whether consumer/patient-facing applications across mobile and web, or backend and workflow-heavy services
- A track record of instilling strong delivery fundamentals—small-batch and continuous delivery, feature flags, testing, and operational excellence—and coaching teams to adopt them
- Partnering closely with product, design, and domain experts to shape execution plans
- Communicating effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Hands-on fluency with agentic, AI-native software development (e.g., Claude Code and similar tools)—you practice it yourself and can model and coach it into the team while maintaining strong engineering rigor
- Experience in healthcare, clinical systems, consumer health, mobile applications, workflow tooling, AI-enabled products, or other regulated domains is a strong plus, but not required
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity in a high growth start-up
- Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision)
- 401k program
- Flexible work schedules and paid time off
- Paid parental leave
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