Engineering Manager in a US Behavioral Health Company (offline)

Help build technology that saves lives!

Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) is a private equity-backed family of companies headquartered in Irvine, California. We provide comprehensive management of mental / behavioral health, wellness, and chronic care and offer employee assistance programs (EAP).

We help people
--Retain and improve their mental health.
--Take care of their families, pets, legal and financial issues, etc.

Unique opportunity
--We are pushing to become a technology-first company focused on digital health, data engineering, clinical data science, and AI to define the state of the art in mental / behavioral health.
--You get to shape this vision and build things from scratch (no tedious support / legacy projects)
--Stability: headquartered in Irvine, California, we have been around for 32 years and are highly profitable. Our benefits are offered to 10M lives across the US through our network of 60K medical professionals.
--The company is led by a seasoned executive team. CTO has a Stanford PhD, previously led technology at 3 other companies and has a $4B exit (Rally Health) and Time’s 50 Best Sites under his belt

We are acquiring a company that has built a digital mental health app to give us a head start in getting digital mental health therapy to the new level.

You will
--Manage the existing 4 engineers who built this app, 2 new backend engineers (Python), and continue growing the team
--Critically evaluate the existing technology. Our initial assessment is that the backend should be rewritten, and the frontend significantly changed.
--Focus the team on defining the architecture for the new product.
--Remediate the existing product while building new functionality in parallel based on the new architecture.
--Successfully launch the new product this year

...and at the same time
--Create and uphold our culture of ownership and accountability
--Manage and mentor individual contributors including tech leads
--Spend 20-40% of your time in the code
--Be responsible for the overall planning, scope management, and execution and own SDLC
--Establish deep understanding of the domain, product, and customers and collaborate effectively with product and customer facing parts of the company
--Be a bar raiser for your engineering team and our entire organization

You have
--6+ years of coding in a team environment shipping production code
--3+ years of building mobile apps
--Solid engineering leadership experience including prior experience of managing people
--Strong practical knowledge of distributed system architecture
--Some experience with our tech stack of React Native, Python, Postgres, and AWS
--Passion for clean, modular, and readable code
--Deep curiosity to understand how things work in order to own and solve problems
--Most importantly, you are self-driven, well organized, curious, tenacious, and communicate effectively. You ask a lot of questions, dig deep, and come up with creative reliable solutions and execute repeatably with a great sense of ownership and accountability.

About Freelancer Larysa Rozumeyenko

Я працюю як незалежний ІТ-рекрутер (більше 11 років) від імені кількох американських продуктових компаній, з якими співпрацюю на довгостроковій основі (з деякими безперервно працюю більше 5 років:-). 100% вакансій передбачають remote зайнятість. Всі співбесіди - безпосередньо з менеджментом компаній (ніяких посередників:-)!

Company website:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/larysa-rozumieienko-a656533a/