Engineering Manager (Assignment: Interoperability & API Engineering)
WelbeHealth PACE helps seniors stay in their homes and communities by providing medical care and community-based services. We believe in going the extra mile and aim to make a genuine difference in our participants’ lives.
The Engineering Manager is a hands-on technical leader accountable for driving the delivery of production-grade APIs, integrations, and AI/ML–enabled services within the Interoperability & API Engineering team. This role mirrors the technical leadership engineering rigor serving as the technical anchor for a dedicated team while enabling broader organizational scaling. The Engineering Manager will architect solutions, mentor engineers, build proof of concepts (PoCs), enforce engineering excellence, and ensure secure, compliant, scalable, and high-performing systems aligned with healthcare and organizational standards.
This role is different because the Engineering Manager at WelbeHealth:
- Directly shapes secure, compliant, production-grade systems that power care for vulnerable seniors – this role is about being the hands-on technical anchor rather than just managing delivery
- Makes decisions that directly affect healthcare delivery, compliance, and participant outcomes – this role sits at the intersection of healthcare standards (HIPAA, PHI/PII), cross-functional partnerships, and rapid innovation
We care about our team members. That’s why we offer:
- Medical insurance coverage (Medical, Dental, Vision)
- Work/life balance - We mean it! 17 days of personal time off (PTO), 12 holidays observed annually, and 6 sick days
- 401K savings + match
- Comprehensive compensation package including base pay and bonus
- And additional benefits!
On the day-to-day, you will:
Technical Leadership & Hands-On Engineering
- Lead end-to-end architecture, development, and delivery of APIs, microservices, and integration pipelines for internal and external healthcare systems, as well as act as the senior-most engineer for the team: designing components, writing high-quality code, troubleshooting complex issues, and performing rigorous code reviews
- Build scalable, cloud-native solutions using Azure, containerized workloads (Docker/Kubernetes), and modern integration frameworks
AI, Automation & MLOps Integration
- Implement repeatable MLOps patterns for model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management
- Build prototype PoCs that validate new technologies, workflows, or AI-enabled automations before scaling to production
Team Leadership, Mentorship, & Execution
- Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous learning, as well as step in as the escalation point for technical blockers, guiding the team toward solutions
Cross-Functional Partnership
- Collaborate with Product, Architecture, Cloud, Security, and other engineering teams to define integration strategies and solution blueprints, as well as translate complex technical designs into clear communication for non-technical stakeholders
Security, Compliance & Healthcare Standards
- Ensure all development aligns with HIPAA, PHI/PII-safe engineering, and healthcare interoperability requirements, as well as apply FHIR, HL7, EDI, and related healthcare interoperability patterns where applicable
Job requirements include:
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field; master’s degree preferred
- Minimum of eight (8) years in software engineering, with at least three (3) years in a team leader or senior engineering capacity
- Minimum of two (2) years of hands-on experience with AI/ML, Azure AI Foundry, AI Foundry agents, or related AI integration frameworks
- Strong hands-on experience with Python and/or Node.js for API engineering and data integrations; known knowledge on Microsoft Azure tools stack is a must
- Prior experience in healthcare, interoperability, or API-heavy environments is a must
- Proficiency in REST/GraphQL API design, microservices patterns, authentication/authorization (OAuth2, JWT, Entra ID), and event-driven architectures
- Familiarity with MLOps tools (Azure ML, MLflow, Databricks) and container ecosystems
- Experience with interoperability standards such as FHIR, HL7, EDI, or clinical integration workflows is highly preferred
We are seeking an Engineering Manager that ideally has successful leadership abilities, hands on with AI/ML, Azure AI foundry with prior working experience in the healthcare domain. If you’re ready to join a team that values both its participants and team members, we’d love to hear from you!
Salary/Wage base range for this role is $132,181- $174,478 / year + Bonus. WelbeHealth offers competitive total rewards package that includes, 401k match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Actual pay will be adjusted based on experience and other qualifications.
COVID-19 Vaccination Policy
At WelbeHealth, our mission is to unlock the full potential of our vulnerable seniors. In this spirit, please note that we have a vaccination policy for all our employees and proof of vaccination, or a vaccine declination form will be required prior to employment. WelbeHealth maintains required infection control and PPE standards and has requirements relevant to all team members regarding vaccinations.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
At WelbeHealth, we embrace and cherish the diversity of our team members, and we're committed to building a culture of inclusion and belonging. We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer. People seeking employment at WelbeHealth are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member), pregnancy or other status protected by applicable law.
Beware of Scams
Please ensure your application is being submitted through a WelbeHealth sponsored site only. Our emails will come from @welbehealth.com email addresses. You will never be asked to purchase your own employment equipment. You can report suspected scam activity to [email protected]
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