Engineering Manager - Application Development

At Bluesight, our mission is to create groundbreaking solutions that increase efficiency, safety and visibility for health systems, hospital pharmacy, and pharmaceutical manufacturers.  We empower our customers to deliver the right medicine to the right patient at the right time, every time.  We are a high growth healthcare information technology company with a start-up 'vibe' but over 3,000 customers using our proven solutions. The Engineering Manager - Application Development, will lead two cross-functional application development teams building and enhancing mission-critical healthcare solutions: PrivacyPro: Our 6x Best-in-KLAS patient privacy monitoring solution provides privacy monitoring insights and workflows that empower compliance teams to safeguard patient records, auditing up to 100% of system accesses with industry-leading precision to detect risks and uncover hidden privacy violations before they escalate. Tech stack: Java Spring Boot backend, React frontend, MongoDB datastore. ShortageCheck: Our medication shortage monitoring and inventory optimization solution helps hospitals proactively identify potential shortages and make informed decisions about inventory management. Tech stack: Python FastAPI backend, React frontend, Relational datastore. This role involves close collaboration with product and design teams to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions while adapting to shifting business priorities across both products. You'll need to excel at context switching between teams, delegating effectively, and maintaining clear communication channels to ensure both teams remain productive and aligned. While this role is mostly hands-off from code, your strong technical background will be essential in enabling the teams to make appropriate architectural and engineering trade-off decisions. Representative Duties and Responsibilities:

Lead and coordinate two cross-functional teams, managing context switching and ensuring balanced attention across both products

Delegate effectively to staff and senior engineers, empowering them to make decisions and drive work forward

Leverage your strong technical background to guide architectural decisions across different tech stacks

Make pragmatic engineering trade-off decisions that balance technical excellence, business priorities, and customer value delivery across multiple products

Identify and manage dependencies between teams while maintaining clear boundaries and ownership

Adapt team priorities and processes as business needs shift, maintaining team productivity and morale through change

Participate in design and code reviews across both teams' projects

Manage and develop your teams through hiring, coaching, and continuous improvement

Drive company, product, and team objectives with a focus on delivering measurable customer value

Establish standards of high-quality work and acceptable coding standards across teams

Experiment with and iterate on team processes to improve outcomes and efficiency

Manage and improve engineer support procedures across both products

Partner with product managers and other engineering leaders to identify dependencies and shape the technical roadmap

Foster a culture of pragmatism, experimentation, and customer focus

Build scalable communication and coordination practices that work across multiple teams

Skills and Qualifications:

Proven track record of leading multiple teams or scaling a team to deliver measurable customer value

Strong technical background with experience in full-stack development and AWS technologies

Experience delegating to staff and senior engineers, with comfort empowering others to make decisions

Ability to make pragmatic engineering trade-offs that balance technical debt, business priorities, and customer needs

Experience leading remote teams (we are a fully remote team that meets in person as needed a few times a year)

History of architecting, designing, and developing scalable production applications with solid understanding of software engineering best practices

Flexibility to adapt as priorities shift and work through ambiguity with open communication and autonomy

Strong organizational skills and ability to manage competing priorities across multiple teams

Empathy with your coworkers and our customers

Willingness to experiment with team processes, iterate based on outcomes, and maintain strong bias for action and documentation

Strong written and analytical skills

Exemplification of our core values (Get Stuff Done, Join Forces, Honor the Customer, Redefine Possible, and Have Fun)

Experience with Java Spring Boot, FastAPI, React, and MongoDB or similar modern tech stacks

Experience managing teams working on different products or codebases simultaneously

Experience with Auth0 or other identity and access management platforms

Knowledge of privacy regulations (HIPAA, etc.) and compliance requirements

Experience leveraging Generative AI (including code generation) to accelerate delivery and amplify team impact

Experience in healthcare or other regulated industries

Knowledge of Electronic Health Records (EHR)

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

What you'll get in this role:

Opportunities to solve meaningful problems that protect patient privacy and help healthcare organizations optimize operations

Strong voice in what we work on, how it works, and how it is built

Room to be creative and choose your own path

Trust in your sense of ownership

Dedicated budget for training and career development

Access to Pluralsight, GitHub Copilot, and AI tools integrated across our stack (Notion, Slack, Jira, etc.)

Coworkers who you'll learn from, who will push you and who are looking to learn from you