Director of Engineering

About Us

At SimplePractice, our team is dedicated to improving the health and wellness industry by building a suite of innovative solutions for practitioners and their clients. Our product supports practitioners on their clinical journey to becoming licensed, helps them manage their business and practice once they’re up and running, and enables new clients to discover and interact with practitioners. Taking a practitioner-first approach in everything we do makes it possible for health and wellness practitioners to devote more time to their clients while they use SimplePractice to start, grow, and maintain a successful private practice.

As Director of Engineering, you will be responsible for improving collaboration and efficiency on various projects in the Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) engineering group throughout the development lifecycle and help support and lead the engineers to deliver quality software to our customers. The ideal candidate will be able to develop a good understanding of our products to help determine effort and resources needed to take on new initiatives while maintaining high quality.

• Have a good grasp of the tech stacks in use
• Work with the product team and other stakeholders to take requirements and help shape them with technical details
• Mentor and guide direct reports
• Setup regular touch points with direct reports and set proper expectations that meet both company and personal goals
• Maintain and add good engineering practices while eliminating unnecessary ones
• Assess and address technical issues
• Help identify gaps in resourcing

• 5+ years of experience building and delivering quality products and mentoring other engineers on the team
• Technical background:
  • Functional understanding and experience with MVC concepts and experience delivering features in a framework such as Rails or Django
  • Experience writing clean, readable and testable code
  • Good understanding of database technologies (SQL, NoSQL etc…)
  • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (preferably Git)
  • Familiarity with other technologies such as caching, Redis 
  • Familiarity with CI/CD processes
  • Working knowledge of front-end technologies and frameworks
  • Understanding of billing and payment systems like Stripe
• Soft skills:
  • Strong communication and technical writing skills
  • Well organized and disciplined, excellent documentation skills
  • Curious about new technologies
  • Great listener
  • Technical by nature, ability to take big ideas and work with a team to break them down into smaller, actionable steps

Base Compensation Range

$195,000 - $230,000 annually

Base salary is one component of total compensation. Employees may also be eligible for an annual bonus or commission and equity. Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay.

The above represents the expected base compensation range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider many factors including, but not limited to, skills, experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors.

Benefits

We offer a competitive benefits program including:

• Medical, dental, vision, life & disability insurance
• 401(k) plan with company match & employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Flexible Time Off (FTO), wellbeing days, paid holidays, and summer Fridays
• Mental health resources
• Paid parental leave & Backup Care
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

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