Director of Engineering

The Company

Medely is a high-growth, profitable, series-C technology start-up reimagining the future of healthcare work by providing an on-demand marketplace and workforce management tools. With the support of top-tier investors, Medely has quickly become a go-to platform for healthcare professionals to instantly access high-paying jobs with the freedom and flexibility to work when and where they want. 

As a fully remote team of sharp, collaborative, and entrepreneurial individuals, we are dedicated to redefining the way healthcare workers and facilities work together to provide for patients. We are looking for passionate and skilled professionals to join our team and help us take on tough challenges in this fast-expanding healthcare industry segment.

Join us in our mission to transform the healthcare staffing industry and improve patient lives!

The Role
Medley is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead our growing engineering team, who is passionate about product craftsmanship and cares about great design. You will report to the VP of Engineering and will cross-functionally collaborate with teams to ensure end-to-end strategy and execution. Your technical experience and business context will help lead engineering teams in building the Medely platform. Ideally, you will have experience fostering and growing highly efficient software development teams and supporting the delivery of simple and elegant development solutions. 

What you will do:

• Work closely with stakeholders to deliver world-class software.

• Develop people through coaching, mentoring, and direct feedback.

• Be responsible for the overall planning, execution, and success of technical projects.

• Drive the technical vision of your products, and connect them to the success of the company.

• Research new technologies or methodologies that can improve the architecture, user experience, or development process.

• Oversight of the maintenance to ensure production-ready backend systems and frameworks, while focusing on efficiency and optimization.

• Define and analyze metrics that inform the success of our products.

• Attract, onboard, and retain top talent.

• Help establish best-quality practices across the organization.

• Collaborate with product, sales, customer support, and other departments to implement new growth initiatives.

• Identify performance bottlenecks while proposing and implementing effective solutions.

• Champion simple, intelligent, and elegant solutions to problems.

What we are seeking:

• 10+ years of relevant industry experience, with 7+ years of technical leadership and people management experience, and 2+ years of experience overseeing and mentoring engineering managers

• Solid grasp of software engineering fundamentals and their practical applications

• Thorough understanding of Site Reliability and Platform Engineering principles

• Exposure to Ruby, Docker, Kubernetes, and Google CloudExperience with APIs (REST and GraphQL)

• Understanding of client-side JavaScript frameworksLarge-scale systems design experience

• Bachelors in Computer Science or a similar field

• Possess a growth mindset: Live and breathe experimentation, data analysis, and ruthlessly prioritize for impact

• Ability to collaborate across multiple teams and be willing to roll up your sleeves and execute!

• Committed desire to understand our customers

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

The estimated compensation for this role is $205,000 to $251,000.

Why Medely: Benefits & Perks

• Competitive Compensation: Based on experience and performance

• Long-term Incentives: 401k

• Healthcare Benefits: Full suite of benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Flexibility: We believe that work/life balance is important, so we offer twenty days of Paid Time Off and ten paid holidays.

• Paid parental leave

• Purpose: Join a growing mission-oriented startup that is modernizing the healthcare industry nationally!

• Ownership: Drive meaningful business impact on a team you’ll help build and define!

• Remote: Work in a digital environment with all the tools to achieve your work as though you were in the office!

We're an equal-opportunity employer to all. We interview and hire applicants of all backgrounds, orientations, expressions, and identities.

Work location is flexible if approved by Medely.

Medely does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. We consider any resume (CV) or biography received from an agency or outside recruiter without prior approval from a member of the Medely Human Resources or Recruiting team to be unsolicited and gratuitous, and such submissions will not be recognized by Medely for purposes of “ownership” of the candidate.

We are an E-Verify company.

Compensation Range: $205K - $251K