Head of Product Engineering
About Soda Health
Soda Health is a technology company that administers Smart Benefits to connect people to products and services they need, when they need them, so they can live healthier lives. We partner with payers and retailers to deliver expansive benefits for things like healthy foods, OTC medications, or transportation. Soda Health is reinventing benefits administration so that everyone benefits with more value for each and better outcomes for all. Soda Health is a Series B stage company, backed by leading investors including General Catalyst, Define Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pinegrove Capital Partners, and Qiming Venture Partners.
The Job at a Glance
As a Head of Product Engineering at Soda Health, you'll manage teams who are responsible for feature delivery centered in our proprietary software platform. Partnering with our Director of Product and our general managers, you are a trusted advisor to the business, using your technical background to steer feature delivery to meet the sweet spot which satisfies immediate business goals and creates a system with lasting value. Your work will directly and positively impact the lives of everyday people who are older and/or have lower incomes, making healthcare more accessible and personalized for underserved populations – our products make a tangible difference in people’s lives.
What You Will Do
Working within an organization created at the intersection of health care, retail and financial technology, no two days will look the same. Your work will include:
- Ensuring technical designs are correct and guiding teams as needed; recognizing when buying vs. building may be a better choice.
- Collaborating with other engineers on technical matters; settling debates when needed.
- Managing project delivery estimation, with a strategy for tradeoffs between delivery and debt
- Coaching and developing others, including new-in-role managers and staff engineers
- Gathering and analyzing data to prove or disprove a hypothesis you have about engineering performance and priorities
- Managing a staffing plan aligned with product priorities, including addressing deficiencies in our capabilities and succession plan for key roles
- Benchmarking our software delivery pace against comparable organizations
You will build a capable, nimble, high-performing engineering team and hire excellent engineers. You set the tone, and it is positive with high expectations. You set the pace, and it is fast.
In our May 2025 developer experience survey, 100% of engineers agreed their overall experience at Soda Health as a developer is as good or better than any organization they’ve ever worked for; our goal is to make everyone's time at Soda Health the highlight of their career.
About You
While every candidate brings a unique resume and perspective, an ideal candidate will include:
- 7+ years managing engineering managers and teams
- A track record of developing managers and partnerships with business colleagues; be ready with references
- Hands-on engineering skills in a relevant discipline
- Experience quantifying success or failure based on your own data and code
- Practiced ability to work with business stakeholders to understand goals
- Love of presenting and demoing your work so others can understand
- Solid computer science fundamentals
- Bachelor’s degree or similar experience strongly preferred
Other Requirements
- Occasional travel may be required from time to time as part of the role, for company events and business needs.
- Soda Health is a remote-first, distributed workforce. Candidates should be comfortable with, and equipped to work within, a distributed remote team, including having reliable internet access and basic home office equipment. Soda Health will provide a really nice work laptop, and mouse/keyboard upon request.
- Legal authorization to work in the US is required. At this time, Soda Health will not consider candidates who need sponsorship, now or in the future.
- All offers for employment are contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
What We Offer
- Competitive base salary ranging from $235,675 to $251,750 plus discretionary bonus, and equity; depending on experience/qualifications
- Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance with 90% paid employer premium contributions for all tiers
- 100% Employer Paid Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- 100% Employer Paid Basic Life Insurance Policy
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 401(k) Program
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid holidays
- Parental Leave
- Flexible work schedule within core hours
- Work anywhere in the USA as we are a fully distributed team from coast to coast
Soda Health Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran/LGBTQIA+ – proudly embracing diversity in all its manifestations. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the People Operations Team via Careers@sodahealth.com.
Soda Health participates in E-Verify, the federal program for electronic verification of employment eligibility.
To all recruitment agencies: Soda Health does not accept agency resumes, please do not forward them to any Soda Health employees.
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