Engineering Manager (Benefits)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager (Benefits): Lead the team owning core benefits platform determining insurance coverage, patient out-of-pocket costs, and provider reimbursements with an accent on infrastructure reliability, accuracy, and scalability. Focus on hiring/growing 4-5 engineers, co-owning roadmap with PM, setting technical standards, and partnering with claims/eligibility/billing teams.

New York, New York, United States; San Francisco, California, United States; Seattle, Washington, United States

Salary: $190,000 - $237,500

Company

Series D mental health platform automating insurance credentialing, claims, and payments for 70,000+ providers across all 50 US states, serving 1M+ patients.

What you will do

• Lead a team of 4–5 engineers: hiring, growing, and coaching them.
• Own the benefits platform at the core of patient bookings, provider payouts, and claims.
• Co-own roadmap with product manager, setting priorities and pace.
• Set technical standards, scoping processes, architectural decisions, incident response, and on-call practices.
• Partner with leaders in claims, eligibility, billing, and payer partnerships.

Requirements

• 5+ years as senior/staff engineer writing and shipping code; still hands-on with PRs, tech specs, design reviews.
• Early in management: running small team or tech lead ready for bigger scope.
• Experience building robust, leveraged systems other teams depend on.
• Understand complex problems; build intelligent systems with AI/algorithms/rules.
• Mission-driven; give direct, kind feedback.

Nice to have

• Machine learning experience: eval loops, model rollout, production ML.
• Healthcare, insurance, or claims domain knowledge.
• Scaleup experience (Series B–D).

Culture & Benefits

• Equity compensation, medical/dental/vision, HSA/FSA, 401K.
• Work-from-home stipend, therapy reimbursement, 16-week parental leave, Carrot Fertility.
• 13 paid holidays + Holiday Break, flexible PTO, EAP, training/professional development.