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Lead a senior engineering team managing AWS cloud infrastructure and building the development platform on Kubernetes, ensuring high performance and operational excellence.
SmarterDx, a Smarter Technologies company, builds clinical AI that is transforming how hospitals translate care into payment. Founded by physicians in 2020, our platform connects clinical context with revenue intelligence, helping health systems recover millions in missed revenue, improve quality scores, and appeal every denial. Become a Smartian and help optimize the way the healthcare system works for everyone. Learn more at smarterdx.com/careers.
Role
We’re looking for a highly technical Engineering Manager to lead a senior team of engineers managing our AWS cloud infrastructure and building our development platform on Kubernetes. The ideal candidate for this role is passionate about developer efficiency through excellent planning, techniques, and architectures and is also able to jump into tough problems to help resolve them.
**This role is fully remote within the US**
What You’ll Do
- Be accountable for all aspects of the team’s performance including velocity of feature delivery, quality, operational excellence, hiring, retention, professional growth, and well-being
- Foster a culture of clarity, alignment, and confidence to help the team deliver on goals effectively
- Work with stakeholders to drive out the strategy, roadmap, and architecture for the application development platform
- Design, build, and launch new platform features to improve the overall quality and experience of software development at SmarterDx
- Champion DevOps and SRE culture across the organization
- Support our platform in production
What You Bring
- 12+ years of software engineering experience
- 2+ years as an engineering manager
- Expertise running an agile process (preferably Kanban) for a team and fluency with the agile toolkit
- Expertise with AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes
- Deep experience designing and implementing microservice architectures
- Experience in Python and one or more database systems, especially PostgreSQL
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience working in a security-conscious domain
- Experience working at startups, especially in the health tech space
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
Nice To Haves
- You're a former startup founder, or have managed a team at a fast-growing startup
- Experience supporting data engineering tools like Airflow, dbt, and Snowflake
- Experience supporting ML / AI tools and platforms
Our Tech Stack
AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Go, Python, Typescript, Postgres
Compensation
$230K to $270K total cash compensation
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Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision – Comprehensive plans with leading insurance providers, covering 75% of your premiums, depending on the plan.
- Paid Parental Leave – Generous paid leave to support families through birth or adoption: Up to 12 weeks for parents.
- Remote-First Team – Work from anywhere in the U.S.
- Unlimited PTO & 10 Holidays – So you can relax and recharge.
- 401(k) with Traditional & Roth Options – Tax-advantaged retirement savings through Fidelity with a 4% match.
- Minimal Bureaucracy – A fast-moving, high-impact environment where you can focus on what matters.
- Incredible Teammates! – Work alongside smart, supportive, and mission-driven colleagues.
Top Skills
AWS
Go
Kubernetes
Postgres
Python
Terraform
Typescript
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