Engineering Manager

Forus•New York, NY

14d•Onsite

About The Position

As an Engineering Manager at Forus, you will lead a team that owns a core part of the system that gets patients on therapy. This is a player-coach role. You will write code, review designs, and make architecture calls alongside your team, and you will also be accountable for who is on that team, how fast they ship, and whether the work moves the business. Every team here builds AI into the product rather than around it. Our systems read unstructured clinical documents, reason about payer policies, operate third-party portals, generate appeals, and route prescriptions, all under real accuracy constraints where being wrong has a cost for a patient. This is one requirement covering three teams. We will work with you during the process to find the right fit. Pharma. Builds the products and data systems our biopharma partners depend on, turning what we see across the network into insight that directly impacts how new drugs are launched, studied, and made available to the patients who need them. This team works closely with some of the largest biopharma companies in the world, shaping how they launch and commercialize new medicines. Provider. Owns everything doctors and their staff touch, from signup and onboarding through the single view of what is happening with every prescription, plus the agentic support experience behind it. This team is measured on activation and time to value: how fast are providers getting to their first prescription, and how many newly activated practices are really using Forus 30 days later. It is the most direct line between engineering work and network growth. Core Operations. Owns the automation engine behind prior authorizations, benefit verifications, appeals, affordability programs, and pharmacy routing. This is the deepest agent surface at Forus and the team most directly responsible for ensuring that every prescription is a five-star experience. This is a demanding role, with a high level of autonomy and responsibility. You will be expected to "act like an owner" and commit yourself to Forus' success. If you are low-ego, hungry to learn, and excited about intense, impactful work that drives both company growth and accelerated career progression, we want to hear from you.

Requirements

6+ years building software, with a track record of shipping products that real users depend on
2+ years leading engineers, with clear ownership of both delivery and team health, on top of a strong IC background
Full-stack range. You have built and operated the backend systems and the interfaces on top of them, and you can make credible calls across the whole stack
A real hiring track record. You have recruited strong engineers who joined in part because you were the one selling the role
The ability to go from an ambiguous business problem to a clear, structured, shipped solution with minimal guidance
A track record of moving quickly, finding shortcuts, and going to unreasonable lengths to deliver on goals
High NPS with your former teammates and your former reports

Responsibilities

Own your team's outcomes end to end, from problem definition and technical design through launch and the measured impact on patient access, provider growth, or operational efficiency.
Stay hands-on, writing and reviewing production code, leading architecture decisions, and taking the hardest or most ambiguous problem yourself when that is the fastest path forward.
Hire, source, sell, close, and onboard engineers, and own the bar for your team. Recruiting is a first-order part of this job.
Grow and mentor the engineers on the team. Set clear expectations, give direct feedback, and make people meaningfully better than they were when they arrived.
Work directly with providers, biopharma partners, and our operations team. You will be expected to fully understand and internalize the needs of your users and build for them.
Raise the ceiling on how your team builds with AI, and push the team to always be experimenting with more productive ways to develop software.