Manager, Engineering

Job Title: Manager, Engineering 

Location: Remote, US only

About the Company

Wheel is evolving the traditional care ecosystem by equipping the nation's most innovative companies with a premier platform to deliver high-quality virtual care at scale. We offer proven strategies and cutting-edge technologies to foster consumer engagement, build brand loyalty, and maximize return on investment. Wheel solutions include configurable virtual care programs, an intuitive consumer interface, and access to a nationwide network of board-certified clinicians. Discover how Wheel is transforming the future of healthcare by visiting www.wheel.com.

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager at Wheel, you’ll be responsible for building software and running teams that are critical to the success of the company. You will lay the foundation for our engineering team, focused on creating technology platforms and products to support our mission to become the infrastructure of Virtual Care. In this position, you will work across the entire company, and closely with clients to define and deliver your goals. Your team will be responsible for expanding our platform by taking advantage of emerging technologies. You will have the opportunity to be part of defining best-in-class solutions to virtual care problems. You are a true people leader; someone who believes in “we” before “me” and your team’s motivation, growth, and wellbeing first. You are self-motivated, versatile, and compassionate, and can work equally well in highly collaborative settings as well as those with little direction.

What You’ll Do

• Support, mentor and grow your engineers to help them continuously improve.

• Ensure we’re constantly moving our product forward in a build-learn-iterate model.

• Mentor and guide your team in best-practices for modern web products and distributed systems.

• Be ‘hands on’ - you can still code alongside your team.

• Collaborate with product, design, and leadership to ideate and develop winning products that help move the business forward.

• Design, build, deploy and maintain systems and user experiences that scale with a high growth company.

• Take ownership of new features, big and small, analyzing system and business metrics post-release.

• Lead the team responsible for AI innovation on the Wheel platform

Who You Are

• 3+ years of management experience required.

• Aptitude for working in a collaborative environment as an empathetic teammate.

• 6+ years of experience with full-stack development, building real-world web applications in production environments required.

• You can operate autonomously and have a strong desire to make an impact.

• Exemplary communication skills; able to explain possible solutions to non-technical team members.

• Startup experience or experience building highly scalable products. Growth startup experience - series A/B is ideal.

• Proven ability to learn new technologies quickly.

• Thrives in a collaborative and diverse environment.

• Experience with artificial intelligence (AI) required.

• A degree in computer science or related fields is preferred but not required.

Additional Technical Competencies Highly Preferred:

• Node/TypeScript

• Ruby

• React and Vue

• PostgreSQL

• AWS

• Docker and Kubernetes

• Kafka

Salary and Perks

The salary range is $180k - 260k.

Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including, but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

Wheel is unable to consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position. The role will remain open until January 1, 2025. Any eligible candidate that meets the essential criteria of the role may apply via the job posting or through Wheel’s career page up until the designated application deadline. 

As an employee of Wheel, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:

• Medical, Dental and Vision 

• Ancillary: Life, Short and Long Term Disability (no cost). 

• Highlighted Perks

  • 401K plus match

  • Flexible PTO

  • Parental Leave

  • Stock options

  • Additional memberships and perks

Wheel is committed to equal employment opportunities for all team members. Every decision we make regarding employment is solely based on merit, competence, and performance. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We realize the full promise of diversity and want you to bring your whole self to work every single day.

Research shows that underrepresented groups typically apply only if they meet 100% of the criteria listed. At Wheel, we are dedicated to fair play and encourage women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ job seekers to apply for positions even if they don’t check every box for the role.