Position Summary

As an Engineering Manager at Wheel, you’ll be responsible for building software and running teams that are critical to the success of the company. You will lay the foundation for our engineering team, focused on creating technology platforms and products to support our mission to become the infrastructure of Virtual Care. In this position, you will work across the entire company, and closely with clients to define and deliver your goals. The majority of your work would be ‘green field’ with the opportunity to be part of defining best-in-class solutions to virtual care problems. You are a true people leader; someone who believes in “we” before “me” and your team’s motivation, growth, and wellbeing first. You are self-motivated, versatile, compassionate, and can work equally well in highly collaborative settings as well as those with little direction.

This position is open for candidates in the following locations:

Austin, Texas
Boston, Massachusetts
Chicago, Illinois
New York City, New York
San Francisco Bay Area, California
Seattle, Washington

Responsibilities

• Support, mentor and grow your engineers to help them continuously improve
• Ensure we’re constantly moving our product forward in a build-learn-iterate model
• Mentor and guide your team in best-practices for modern web products and distributed systems
• Be ‘hands on’ - you can still code alongside your team
• Collaborate with product, design, and leadership to ideate and develop winning products that help move the business forward
• Design, build, deploy and maintain systems and user experiences that scale with a high growth company
• Take ownership of new features, big and small, analyzing system and business metrics post-release

Technologies we use and teach:

Qualifications

• 3+ years of management experience, running multiple teams simultaneously
• Aptitude for working in a collaborative environment as an empathetic teammate
• 6+ years experience full-stack development, building real-world web applications in production environments
• You can operate autonomously and have a strong desire to make an impact
• Exemplary communication skills; able to explain possible solutions to non-technical team members
• Bonus points if you have prior startup experience or have experience building highly scalable products. Growth startup experience - series A/B is ideal
• Proven ability to learn new technologies quickly
• Thrives in a collaborative and diverse environment