Engineering Team Lead

ABOUT US

HirexHire (pronounced hire by hire) is a Chicago-based recruiting and talent consultancy that integrates with companies short-term to provide long-term talent solutions. We take a seat in our client's everyday operations to understand their people's goals, gaps, and challenges. We then develop and implement the processes and technologies to execute a sustainable and scalable talent plan.

We partner with companies expecting or experiencing high growth who need to hire at scale or fill a critical role rapidly. Our clients are not looking for quick-fix placements but are thoughtfully building a hiring strategy to scale their businesses.

OUR CLIENT

Location: Chicago, IL HQ

Industry: Healthcare Technology (SaaS)

Company Size: 50+

What They Do: Our client is a cloud-based software platform and patient engagement technology that automates the collection of patient reported outcomes. It also offers procedure-specific education modules to help prepare patients for treatments and proactively monitors their recovery.

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THE ROLE

Our client is looking for an experienced Engineering Team Lead who can lead the development of an early stage data platform from inception to launch (0-1) through the entire product lifecycle. You will partner with a Product Manager and your team of engineers to create a new core parts of our client's platform.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Manage and lead a team of 3-5 engineers and associated agile rituals like standups, planning, and retrospectives.
• Align your team around product OKRs/KPIs that you jointly focus on driving.
• Work with product managers and designers to build and realize new product features.
• Report on project statuses to the company.
• Perform peer code reviews to ensure the team is producing well-tested and maintainable code.
• Evangelize our software development best practices within the team.
• Active development with proper test coverage
• Support and optimize our critical production environment.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• 5+ years of experience building web applications.
• Experience leading projects and some form of managing, leading, or mentoring others.
• Ability to write clean, well-designed, and scalable code.
• Experience working with clinical data, including a strong understanding of medical terminology, healthcare data standards (e.g., HL7, FHIR), and interoperability challenges.
• Experience building modern, external (customer-facing) data products. Thorough understanding of data engineering concepts.
• First-hand professional experience with Ruby on Rails.
• Desire to work in a collaborative environment: interactions with the leadership team, product managers, and customer success teams.
• Knowledge of full-stack development.

TECH STACK

• Ruby on Rails, RSpec, Capybara, Selenium, CircleCI
• JavaScript, React, Jest, React Testing Library, Highcharts
• PostgreSQL, Redis
• AWS Lambda, Serverless

WHAT OUR CLIENT OFFERS YOU

Our client was recently selected as one of the top 50 "Best Small Companies to Work For in Chicago" and they pride themselves on their team culture and shared passion for working together to solve meaningful problems in health care to improve patient lives. Check out a few of their benefits below:

• Great Benefits - top-notch health, dental and vision insurance. Additional perks available including 401K.
• They are Mission Driven - our client's team is motivated to solve complex problems, drive medicine forward, and ultimately improve patient outcomes.
• True Idea Meritocracy - great ideas win out. They encourage all team members to challenge the status quo because their mission demands this.
• Flexible Time Off - they trust you to take the time you need when you feel it is appropriate, given your workload and responsibilities. No need to track it or save up.
• World-Class Team - they're at the top of our industry because of our employees. They're the best investment they can make, and they never forget that.
• Fast Growing - they are building the largest platform for healthcare providers, industry partners, researchers, and others to collaborate on the mission to improve patient outcomes.