Director of Product Engineering - Remote
About The Position
Blackbird Health is looking to hire a Director of Product Engineering to join our growing Technology Leadership team. This role will own the end-to-end delivery of our core full-stack applications—from patient-facing mobile experiences to provider-facing clinical experiences. You will lead multiple product engineering areas, defining the architectural vision for our platform while fostering a high-performance culture of rapid execution (e.g., ship in a few days on occasions) and rigorous reliability (e.g., 99.9% availability, 95% code coverage). You will serve as a bridge between our cutting-edge AI research and our production software, ensuring our systems are scalable, secure, and intuitive.
Requirements
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on building complex, high-scale web and mobile applications.
- 5+ years of engineering management experience, including experience managing leads or other managers (not just individual contributors).
- Full Stack Mastery: Deep expertise in modern stacks (React, Node.js, Python) and cloud-native infrastructure (GCP, CDN, IAP)
- Architectural Depth: Proven track record of designing distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
- Data Privacy: Experience working in regulated environments (HIPAA, Fintech) with strict security and privacy requirements.
- Remote Fluency: Ability to lead distributed teams effectively, maintaining strong communication and collaboration across time zones.
Nice To Haves
- Experience as a Product / Program Manager.
- Experience with EHR integrations (FHIR standards) or healthcare interoperability.
- Background in AI/ML application engineering, specifically working with LLMs or RAG pipelines.
- Contributions to open source projects or a history of technical writing/public speaking.
Responsibilities
- Technical Strategy: Define and execute the architectural roadmap for our web and mobile platforms, transitioning to a scalable, service-oriented architecture.
- Platform Engineering: Architect the application layer that integrates our foundational services like the EHR that houses our clinical workflows with our novel services, ensuring low latency and high reliability.
- Delivery Excellence: Adopt a move fast delivery cadence to break down complex initiatives into shippable, high-value milestones.
- Team Leadership: Manage and mentor 2-3 cross-functional squads, implementing career frameworks that foster growth and retention.
- Operational Rigor: Own the live site health by establishing SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) practices, incident response protocols, and comprehensive observability standards.
- Culture Building: Build a diverse and inclusive engineering culture that attracts top talent and balances autonomy with alignment.
- Quality Assurance: Enforce rigorous CI/CD pipelines and automated testing standards to ensure safe and frequent deployments.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision coverage (available on day 1 of employment)
- 401k (with a company match)
- Employer-paid life insurance coverage
- Generous paid time off
- Opportunities for career growth
- Flexible schedule – set your own hours
- Supportive work culture
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
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