Director of Software Engineering

About NexHealth

Our healthcare system remains frustratingly analog. When you live in a world of one-tap car rides instant meal delivery and unlimited streaming why do you still have to call to schedule a doctors appointment and fill out a clipboard in the waiting room

NexHealths mission is to accelerate innovation in healthcare by connecting patients providers and building the infrastructure layer for modern healthcare connecting thousands of fragmented on-premise and closed EHR systems into a single modern platform that powers software APIs payments and patient experiences across the ecosystem.

• Founded: 2017
• Headquarters: San Francisco CA
• Funding: $177M Series C
• Employees: 200
• Trusted by tens of thousands of providers and hundreds of health-tech developers forging the infrastructure layer that modern healthcare needs

About the Role

We are seeking a Director of Software Engineering to lead and scale our engineering teams responsible for building customer-facing applications and developer infrastructure. This is a high-impact role for an experienced engineering leader who excels at balancing technical depth product intuition organizational leadership and cross-functional collaboration.

You will work closely with Product Design Operations and other Engineering leaders to define and execute on our roadmap while scaling the team and raising the bar on engineering excellence. Youll be instrumental in influencing the direction of the product and ensuring the architecture supports NexHealths growth and innovation goals.

What Youll Do

• Strategic Leadership : Drive the long-term vision and technical strategy for critical areas of NexHealths platform.
• Team Development : Hire grow and retain top engineering talent; mentor emerging leaders; and foster a culture of excellence ownership and innovation.
• Execution Excellence : Own the delivery of complex initiatives across multiple teams ensuring clear alignment between product goals and technical execution.
• Cross-functional Collaboration : Partner with Product Design and Go-to-Market teams to deliver best-in-class customer experiences.
• Technical Oversight : Guide system architecture scalability and maintainability across product domains; champion best practices in code quality testing reliability and security.
• Org & Culture Building : Shape organizational structures career paths and team processes to promote high performance and strong engineering culture.

What Youll Bring

• 10 years of experience in software engineering with a proven track record of technical excellence and product delivery.
• 7 years of experience in engineering leadership including directly managing managers and scaling large teams.
• Demonstrated success in people leadership including coaching performance management and career development.
• Extensive experience building and delivering complex customer-facing software products at scale.
• Strong strategic and product judgment with the ability to balance near-term execution with long-term technical investments.
• Proven ability to lead through influence collaborating cross-functionally with Product Design Sales Customer Success and Executive stakeholders.
• Track record of defining and driving engineering and organizational roadmaps with measurable business impact.
• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field or equivalent practical experience.

What We Look For

• A builder mindset with a history of scaling teams and systems in fast-paced environments.
• Strong ownership and ability to take initiative in ambiguous evolving contexts.
• Bias for action and data-driven decision making.
• First-principles thinking applied to both technical and organizational challenges.
• Deep care for people development and team health.
• Alignment with NexHealths core values and mission.

Engineering Principles at NexHealth

• Strong ownership : Knows what needs to be done and executes independently.
• Bias for action : Delivers outcomes quickly and effectively.
• Acts with first principles : Reframes challenges and defines clear paths to ideal solutions.
• Growth mindset : Committed to learning feedback and continuous improvement.
• Company first : Prioritizes whats best for NexHealth and our customers.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary Range : $264000 $310000 USD per year (based on experience and location)
• Equity : Competitive stock options
• Benefits :
• Full Medical Dental Vision (up to 100% covered)
• 401K and commuter benefits
• Unlimited PTO
• Opportunity to work on meaningful problems that impact healthcare innovation

Benefits

• Full Medical Dental and Vision (up to 100% covered)
• 401K and commuter benefits
• Flexible PTO
• High-impact work that directly improves the healthcare experience for millions

Our Values

• Solve the customers problems not yours When making decisions think from the perspective of the customer. Its easy to make decisions that make our lives simpler but not the customers.
• Do the things others are not willing to do As a Nexer always go after the hardest problems. Pursue things at the highest quality. Move at the fastest pace.
• Take ownership
  Act like a founder. Own your roles destinies mistakes behavior and our mission. The buck stops with each of us - no blaming or excuses.
• Say whats on your mind with positive intent
  Be direct proactive transparent and frequent in your communication.
• Default trust
  As a Nexer you do not have to earn trust trust is given to you by default. If we by default trust each other our speed of communication feedback information sharing and overall improvements will be a lot faster.
• Think in first principles
  We first identify the problem and then break it down to its fundamentals before diving into solutions. We constantly ask why to validate our assumptions.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex gender expression sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status. We provide reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities to participate in the application or interview process. Contact to request assistance.

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