Candidhealth

Engineering Leader - Infrastructure & Platform

San Francisco · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$225k-$322kDetected 70 days ago

Distributed SystemsCI/CDData EngineeringRecruitingPerformance ManagementLoad TestingLeadershipCollaborationInternal Audit

About the role

This hire will report directly to our Head of Engineering, Jason Rosenfeld https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-rosenfeld-a76411a8/, and work closely with our Founders and Leadership team.
Your scope of ownership will encompass Candid's scalability, reliability, application performance, data pipelines, developer experience, load testing, and AI tooling strategy.
This role involves deeply cross-functional teamwork.

Manage technical teams: Lead one or more efficient, successful, and motivated teams.
Experiment with and implement the team systems that work to achieve your teams' outcomes.
Collaborate with product, leadership, and others within engineering to build Candid's flagship products.
You will influence direction for technical leads and individual contributors.
Define technical strategy: Partner with company and product leadership to understand and contribute to critical product components and company strategy.
With that in mind, you will be entrusted to design the systems, architecture, and processes to build in order to hit short-term and long-term objectives.
Owning engineering practice, you are responsible for building and maintaining critical services and features
Influencing partners and peers to identify obstacles to delivery and improve on our products while eliminating friction and redundancies
Mentor and coach your direct reports and those around you, working with your peers to create healthy and well-executing teams that grow with equal velocity to the business
own data streaming, eventing and pub/sub infra, data warehouse, and data reporting infra.

B.S. or B.A in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Math or other similar degree.
6+ years of experience in a Software Engineering Leadership position, as a Senior Manager, or Manager of Managers.
You have successfully interviewed, hired, and mentored product focused engineering teams.
you enjoy the challenge of explaining complicated ideas in simple terms, both in-person and in writing.
You are based in (or willing to relocate to) one of the following areas: Denver, CO or San Francisco, CA.
Track record of successfully leading people and teams to build scalable and reliable distributed systems; including teams focused on Data and Infrastructure engineering.
Demonstrated excellence in technical decision making; you know the right architecture and patterns to build functional, durable, and maintainable product.

The estimated starting annual base salary range for this position is $225,000 to $322,000 USD.
The listed range is a guideline from Pave https://www.pave.com/ data, and the actual base salary may be modified based on factors including job-related skills, experience/qualifications, interview performance, market data, etc.
Total compensation for this position may also include equity, sales incentives (for sales roles), and employee benefits.
Given Candid Health's funding and size, we heavily value the potential upside from equity in our compensation package.

Support your team in executing against the technical vision.
Scoping projects and reviewing plans are a levered use of your time to achieve our collective vision.
Total compensation for this position may also include equity, sales incentives (for sales roles), and employee benefits.
Given Candid Health's funding and size, we heavily value the potential upside from equity in our compensation package.
Further note that Candid Health has minimal hierarchy and titles, but has broad ranges of experience represented within roles.

Collaboration with company leadership, sales, and product teams will be crucial as you help define and execute our long-term product strategy.
Act as a steward of results and deliver outcomes: Leveraging an expansive breadth of ownership for the priorities of both our teams and customers, you will have critical influence on balancing competing needs and managing tradeoffs.

This listing is sourced directly from Candidhealth's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.