Engineering Manager

What You’ll Do in Your First 60 Days

• Lead and participate in code reviews and share knowledge with the team
• Ship your first AI-powered feature improvement to production
• Partner with Product and UX to scope and design at least one new capability
• Get familiar with our stack (Python, MySQL, React, AWS) and AI integration patterns

What Success at 6–12 Months Looks Like

• You’re leading a team of 3-5 highly-engaged engineers and collaborating to improve team practices
• Your team is shipping significant features end-to-end, from design through deployment
• You’re helping shape technical direction for AI-native product experiences
• You’ve built strong partnerships with your team’s Product Manager and UX Designer
• You’re actively measuring the value delivered and improvements to the patient and physician experiences in Elation
• You’re engaged as a player-coach and hands on shipping features with your team

How We Work

A typical team at Elation includes 3–5 engineers, an engineering manager, a product manager, a UX designer, and QA working together on a specific product area. Engineers have autonomy over technical implementation decisions while partnering with Product on feature scope and priorities. Your team will own features end-to-end — from architecture and design through deployment and production support.

What We’re Looking For

Essential

• 5+ years of professional software development experience
• 2+ years of experience managing a team
• Track record of leading high-performing teams that deliver high-quality software projects
• Experience building APIs using modern backend technologies
• Ability to communicate complex technical problems clearly to both technical and non-technical partners
• Enthusiasm and interest in building systems using AI and large language models

Valued but Not Required

• Experience with a modern JavaScript framework (React, Angular, etc.)
• Experience building systems with AI/LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.)
• Experience with server-side technology including Python and MySQL
• Experience deploying systems on AWS or other cloud providers
• DevOps/observability experience or strong interest in learning
• Knowledge of US healthcare industry and health tech

Everyone Is Welcome

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive engineering team. Please don’t see everything in this post as a ‘must have’ — if you’re excited about this role but don’t check every box, we still want to hear from you. We especially encourage applications from women, people of color, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds. If you have any requirements or accommodations that would help you interview or work comfortably, please let us know.