Engineering Manager

Axle Health builds scheduling and workforce management software to empower in-home healthcare providers to deliver exceptional, personalized care right where patients feel most comfortable—at home.

Some of the biggest providers in the country use our software (like Cityblock Health and GrandCare) to improve the utilization of their field teams by 17%+, and automate the operational burden of scheduling and dispatching.

Our platform includes proprietary logistics algorithms to optimize scheduling, a mobile app for field staff, an operations dashboard for office teams, engagement and booking tools for patients, and a wide range of integrations and external APIs for modular access.

We’re a team of top-tier engineers and operators, backed by $14m from top investors such as Y Combinator, Pear VC, and F-Prime, applying our intellect and logistics experience to upend how home healthcare is delivered.

We're looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our growing Platform Engineering team. You'll be responsible for building and scaling engineering teams that connect our best-in-class home health logistics platform into users' daily workflows while maintaining engineering excellence across our suite of applications. This role will oversee the technical direction of our platform initiatives, manage multiple workstreams, and drive the development of scalable solutions.

Our ideal candidate has a proven track record of scaling engineering organizations that build complex, mission critical platform systems. You have deep expertise in both architecture and full stack development, excellent people management skills, and a passion for solving systems challenges at scale. Whether you've built engineering teams at established technology companies or led technical efforts at fast-growing startups, we want to hear your story. You’re comfortable balancing hands on development and managing a team.

• Coach and mentor engineers at various career stages while fostering a collaborative team culture

• Build and scale the mobile and web application engineering teams

• Track progress and coordinate delivery across concurrent initiatives

• Establish metrics and reporting that demonstrate the impact, performance, and reliability of platform systems

• Ensure developer velocity by implementing and advocating for development process improvement across multiple technical work streams

• Support the development of scalable, standards-based architecture to support hundreds of thousands of patients across integrations and platform operations

• Design and build systems that comply with healthcare data security standards and regulations (HIPAA, SOC-2, HITRUST, etc)

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field

• 6+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years in engineering management

• Track record of successfully delivering complex technical projects on schedule in a high growth, fast paced, startup environment

• Experience with RESTful APIs, GraphQL APIs, web services, and modern API development practices

• Hands on development experience with JavaScript, Typescript, React, Node, Python, and Django

• Excellent communication skills for explaining technical concepts to diverse stakeholders

• Proven ability to evaluate, develop, and retain engineering talent

• Experience implementing agile development methodologies

• Working knowledge of data security and compliance requirements

• Experience at a growth stage healthcare technology startup

• Prior work with home healthcare, telehealth, or care coordination solutions

• Familiarity with logistics optimization and scheduling systems

• Strong understanding of healthcare interoperability standards (FHIR, HL7)

• Experience managing and deploying applications with AWS

In addition to offering a competitive salary and equity, we want to ensure every team member has the tools they need to work to the best of their ability. To that end…

We are committed to your Ownership:

• We cultivate an environment where team members feel ownership over the work they do. Everyone in an organization has big ideas and we want to hear them and implement them.

• All of our employees have equity compensation. We want you to benefit from all the hard work you do in helping patients and catalyzing this shift in healthcare.

We are committed to your Wellness:

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision

• 401k plan

• Flexible PTO, sick days, and working hours

• Santa Monica HQ with 180 degree beach views and daily catered lunches

We are committed to your Growth:

• Fast paced work environment geared towards professional growth

• Get the chance to move roles within the organization to learn new skills and continue to make an impact

We are committed to building Community:

• Monthly team events, dinners, & happy hours

• Special team outings - some past events have included: yacht cruises, visits to Universal Studios, Magic Castle, and Vegas

Compensation Range: $200K - $250K