Engineering Manager, Front-End

Axle Health•Santa Monica, CA

2d•$200,000 - $250,000•Onsite

About The Position

Axle Health is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead their Front-End and Mobile Engineering team. This role involves a blend of hands-on coding (developing web and mobile interfaces for clinicians, schedulers, and patients) and team management. The manager will report to the CTO and collaborate with product, design, and backend engineering to deliver high-quality software. The ideal candidate is a full-stack engineer with strong front-end and mobile expertise, beginning their management journey, who values code quality, design systems, and user experience, and can foster engineer growth within a dynamic startup environment.

Requirements

Experience working in a startup environment
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
6+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years in engineering management
Track record of successfully delivering complex technical projects on schedule in a high growth, fast paced, startup environment
Experience with RESTful APIs, GraphQL APIs, web services, and modern API development practices
Hands on development experience with React, Typescript, React Native or equivalent mobile framework, JavaScript, and Node
Excellent communication skills for explaining technical concepts to diverse stakeholders
Proven ability to evaluate, develop, and retain engineering talent
Working knowledge of data security and compliance requirements
Prior work with scheduling, logistics, workforce management, or business operations solutions

Nice To Haves

Experience with design systems or component library development
Experience with backend systems and frameworks such as Python and Django
Experience at a growth stage healthcare technology startup
Prior work with home healthcare, telehealth, or care coordination solutions
Familiarity with logistics optimization and scheduling systems
Strong understanding of healthcare interoperability standards (FHIR, HL7)
Experience managing and deploying applications with AWS

Responsibilities

Coach and mentor engineers at various career stages while fostering a collaborative team culture
Build and scale the mobile and web application engineering teams
Track progress and coordinate delivery across concurrent initiatives
Partner with product and design to translate requirements into clean, well-scoped engineering plans
Spend the majority of your time as an individual contributor (writing, reviewing, and shipping code) while managing a small team of front-end and mobile engineers
Own code quality and performance standards across the web and mobile codebase
Ensure developer velocity by implementing and advocating for development process improvement across multiple technical workstreams
Contribute to front-end and mobile architecture decisions, ensuring code is scalable, maintainable, and consistent with team standards
Design and build systems that comply with healthcare data security standards and regulations (HIPAA, SOC-2, HITRUST, etc.)