Manager of Engineering

This is a remote position and we welcome applicants from across all of Canada.

We strive to make healthcare better for all by making it easier for digital health innovators to succeed.

WHO WE ARE

MedStack is on a mission to bring more innovators to healthcare. We are:

• an award-winning startup funded by prominent VCs
• a successful graduate of 500 Startups, the Creative Destruction Lab and Dreamit Health
• a TechCrunch Disrupt Top Pick for cybersecurity
• one of Canada's Top 20 early-stage technology companies by CIX
• named one of the Top startups disrupting healthcare in Canada by PwC and CB Insights

Our business is a subscription-based platform, but we are also an ecosystem, a community that champions startups and entrepreneurship. We embrace automation, collaboration, startup empowerment, and creative problem-solving. Our customers work with us and with each other to tackle the world's biggest problem: making healthcare more efficient, accessible, economical and effective, at a time when the world needs it more than ever before.

WHO YOU ARE

As our Engineering team grows and splits, we are seeking a dynamic, empathetic Manager of Engineering with technical and leadership experience.

The skills you bring:

• Top-notch communication skills (verbal and written) in a leadership setting
• Experience and familiarity with leading in remote team settings through video conferencing, collaboration, and documentation tools
• Deep demonstrable passion for engineering innovation, creativity, and good code practices
• Genuine interest in mission-driven entrepreneurship and technology that makes a difference for real people
• Experience as a Front-End, Full-Stack or Web Developer writing code using JavaScript and relevant frameworks - experience with Ruby is a plus
• Familiarity with DevOps culture and processes
• Familiarity with testing and quality management in a startup and/or highly regulated environment
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud) is an asset
• Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes is an asset

The background you have:

• Experience leading technical teams
• Successes you can share in coaching, hiring, onboarding, and improving performance in small startup environments
• Cloud software development in general, including open-source stacks, security considerations and large public cloud deployments

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

You, as a successful Manager of Engineering, will:

• Directly manage a team of 3-8 full-time Software Engineers of various areas of technical focus, working remotely across Canada
• Lead by example, representing the culture and values of the company and enabling lowest-competent-level decision making while actively removing roadblocks to ensure continued progress and productivity
• Plan capacity and team delivery, with input from your team
• Drive quality improvements in both culture and output, and actively participate and reflect on technical decisions and collaborations
• Act as the primary advocate and champion of your team and its credibility to the rest of the company and management
• Expand your team with high quality, balanced hiring
• Plan onboarding (first two weeks, 30-60-90 days) of new team members, ongoing performance coaching, learning reviews and objectives, and career planning through dedicated reviews and 1:1s
• Plan and manage skill assessments, learning opportunities, and progression of your team members
• Foster the health, emotional safety and positive relationships between your team and the rest of the company
• Continuously manage and optimize knowledge sharing within your team and with the larger Engineering team
• Lead with industry knowledge and awareness of external practices and technologies relevant to supporting the team’s success

MORE ABOUT US:

The problem we solve:

The healthcare industry (hospitals, insurance companies, public health, clinic networks, pharma providers and distributors, and patients themselves) is beholden to strict requirements for data privacy and security requirements that it then applies to its digital health vendors. These complex requirements slow the development and adoption of important solutions.

At MedStack, we provide a new way for digital health to be built, implemented and scaled, faster, more efficiently and with data privacy protection at the centre. Have a look at how we think about the problem we are going after.

The solution we deliver:

Our core offering is MedStack Control, a turnkey compliance solution designed to help healthcare innovators integrate out-of-the-box, proven privacy and security compliance guarantees in the way the industry requires them, thanks to pre-designed cloud security, policies and attestations. Because of our platform approach, every one of our customers helps make our offering stronger for every other.

How we go about it:

MedStack’s software platform lives at the intersection of developer workflows, security practices and assurance, and infrastructure automation. We build with:

• a deeply-rooted product-centric culture
• independent ownership and technical collaborative problem-solving
• data-driven lowest-level decision making
• the power of diverse perspectives
• carefully-curated processes that enable creativity and efficiency
• business problem-driven sprints
• learning-focused dev hours
• demo hours and town halls that integrate everyone company-wide

DAY-TO-DAY AT MEDSTACK:

At MedStack, we:

• are a remote-first company, with supporting tools and processes
• are not hierarchical
• empower our team members with distinct responsibilities and self-direction
• have high standards for professionalism
• are mission-driven, by the importance of our work in servicing the social benefit that results from our customers’ successes
• drive a culture of facts-first and entrepreneurship vs the status quo
• have stringent and bold objectives on diversity and inclusion
• meet virtually as a team weekly for a rousing celebration of wins and learning
• gather in quarterly Town Halls for alignment on objectives and vision

and our important work is supplemented by:

• flexible work hours
• a generous vacation policy
• health and dental benefits, from day 1
• parental leave benefits with bonus top-up
• a company stock ownership option plan, vesting from day 1
• bi-weekly paid-for team lunches
• company retreats and seasonal celebrations
• learning, skills training and industry conference opportunities
• a company-funded book budget
• company-supplied top-end Mac laptop
• a home office equipment budget
• contribution through the company’s ongoing success to philanthropy such as Upside Foundation

Join us.

If you have 70% of the qualifications we are looking for, share our way of thinking and want to play an integral role in transforming how healthcare innovation works, apply to express your interest.

MedStack welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

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