Engineering Leader - Infrastructure & Platform

The Role At Candid Health, we're seeking an experienced Engineering Leader to support and enable our core Platform and Infrastructure teams in planning, executing, and delivering the Candid platform to our healthcare provider customers who rely on it for mission-critical financial and operational workflows. This hire will report directly to our Head of Engineering, Jason Rosenfeld, and work closely with our Founders and Leadership team. Your scope of ownership will encompass Candid's scalability, reliability, application performance, data pipelines, developer experience, load testing, and AI tooling strategy. The teams rolling up to you are responsible for building and maintaining key infrastructure components of a complex and and evolving architecture - their mandate is to uphold best-in-class quality, durability, and performance standards for the Candid platform. You will be responsible for guiding and collaborating with skilled engineers and tech leads, fostering their growth and ensuring they contribute effectively. This role involves deeply cross-functional teamwork. Collaboration with company leadership, sales, and product teams will be crucial as you help define and execute our long-term product strategy. You will also partner closely with security, data privacy, and compliance teams to keep our customer data safe and secure, ensure disaster recovery scenarios, imple [... source excerpt omitted ...] and data reporting infra. What You’ll Do Act as a steward of results and deliver outcomes: Leveraging an expansive breadth of ownership for the priorities of both our teams and customers, you will have critical influence on balancing competing needs and managing tradeoffs. Oversee and lead implementation: Support your team in executing against the technical vision. Scoping projects and reviewing plans are a levered use of your time to achieve our collective vision. You’ll also become familiar with our codebase and drive best practices for design, delivery and collaboration across multiple organizations. Manage technical teams: Lead one or more efficient, successful, and moti [... source excerpt omitted ...] and implement the team systems that work to achieve your teams’ outcomes. Collaborate with product, leadership, and others within engineering to build Candid’s flagship products. You will influence direction for technical leads and individual contributors. Mentor and grow people: Investing in Candid’s growth means investing in the development of the people we hire. In this role you will help define pathways to grow for your team, both in formal performance management and organic opportunities to take on more scope. Define technical strategy: Partner with company and product leadership to understand and contribute to critical product components and company strategy. With that i