Engineering Manager - Application Development

Bluesight

1d • $150,000 - $180,000 • Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

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

Benefits

• 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
• Competitive salary
• Time off when you need it – unlimited vacation days!
• Generous insurance coverage
• 401k program with a company match
• Fun, collaborative culture!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager