
Engineering Manager, Platform
Founded in 2014, League is the leading healthcare consumer experience (CX) platform, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), reaching more than 63 million people around the world and delivering the highest level of personalization in the industry. Payers, providers, and consumer health partners build on League’s platform to deliver high-engagement healthcare solutions proven to improve health outcomes. League has raised over $285 million in venture capital funding to date, powering the digital experiences for some of healthcare’s most trusted brands, including Highmark Health, Manulife, Medibank, and Shoppers Drug Mart.
The Role
As an Engineering Manager on our R&D Platform team, you'll be at the forefront of building scalable, reliable solutions that directly impact healthier lives. We're looking for a leader with a strong technical background in backend and platform thinking, who can guide our teams in building the foundational services and developer tools that empower the entire engineering organization.
You will lead high-performing teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement. Your expertise will be crucial in designing and delivering resilient platform services, while also mentoring engineers and helping them grow their careers. You'll partner with leaders across the company to drive platform adoption and ensure our technology stack meets the needs of a rapidly scaling health tech company.
In this specific role, you will be responsible for building League’s platform configuration tool, and its adoption by other developers and customers. This tool is a generic framework that transforms the domain model into a UI based configuration author flow. Experience in building such or similar tools will be considered a significant asset.
- Design & Development: Lead the design and development of robust platform services using a modern, cloud-native stack. You'll be hands-on in technical discussions, guiding the team toward elegant and resilient solutions.
- Strategic Planning: Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to define and execute a cutting-edge platform roadmap, balancing immediate project needs with long-term architectural investments.
- Team Leadership: Cultivate a positive, inclusive, and autonomous team environment. You will mentor, coach, and grow high-performing engineers, ensuring successful project delivery and professional development.
- Technical Problem-Solving: Proactively identify and mitigate project risks by providing technical guidance and effective problem-solving, acting as a key technical resource for your teams.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build strong relationships with engineering, product, and business leaders to increase platform adoption and ensure alignment on technical priorities
About You:
- 5+ years of experience building scalable backend software applications.
- 3+ years of experience leading platform or internal developer tooling teams.
- Technical Stack: Hands-on experience with our core technologies is a must. This includes a strong understanding of Go for backend services, Kubernetes for container orchestration, and working with cloud platforms like Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Experience in Web stack like React will be a huge advantage.
- Data & Identity: Experience with MongoDB for data persistence and developing or integrating with authentication and authorization systems like OAuth.
- Architectural Skills: Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and API design
Security-Related Responsibilities
- Compliance with Information Security Policies
- Compliance with League’s secure coding practice
- Ensure access management is performed in compliance with the employee's role and responsibilities
- Responsibility and accountability for executing League's policies and procedures within the department/ team
- Notification of HR, Legal, Compliance & Security of any incidents, breaches or policy violations
CANADA APPLICANTS ONLY: The Canada-specific compensation range below for this full-time position is exclusive of bonus, equity and benefits. This range reflects the minimum and maximum target for base salaries for the position across all Canadian locations. The salary range is intentional to account for the performance and career progressions a Leaguer will experience in the role throughout their time at League. Where in the band you may land is determined by job-related skills/experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range specific to your skills and experience during the hiring process.
Compensation range for Canada applicants only
$142,900 - $177,500 CAD
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you are an individual in need of assistance at any time during our recruitment process, please contact us at recruitinginfo@league.com.
- You should receive a confirmation email after submitting your application.
- A recruiter (not a computer) reviews all applications at League.
- If we see alignment with League's needs, a recruiter will reach out to learn more about your goals. The recruiter will also share the team-specific interview process depending on the roles you are exploring.
- The final step is an offer, which we hope you will accept!
- Prior to joining us, we conduct reference and background checks. Additional checks could be required for US Candidates, depending on the role you are exploring.
- Learn about our platform, leadership team and partners
- Highmark Health, Google Cloud, League: new digital front door to seamless care
- Former Providence President and Workday EVP of Corporate Strategy join League Board of Directors
- League raises $95 million USD in Series C to build world’s leading healthcare CX platform
- Forbes x League: The Platformization Of Healthcare Is Here
- Fast Company x League: If we want better innovations in healthtech, we need more competition
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