Engineering Manager

Anterior•New York City, NY

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Anterior is building an AI-powered platform to simplify healthcare administration and support clinical decision-making. The Engineering Manager will lead a team of around 10 engineers in the company's New York office, with responsibility for team hiring, development, performance, collaboration, and delivery. This is a player-coach role, approximately 70% people leadership and 30% hands-on technical work. The manager will stay close to design and implementation, making technical contributions where they provide the greatest leverage. The role includes developing engineers through regular one-on-ones, direct feedback, career plans, and performance reviews; hiring and building a high-performing team; planning and delivering reliable, high-quality work; and collaborating with product, clinical, customer-facing, and enterprise customer technical teams. The manager will also oversee system reliability and incident response, contribute to technical reviews and implementation, and help shape Anterior's engineering practices, team structure, and hiring plans as the organization grows.

Requirements

At least 8 years of software engineering experience.
At least 2 years as an engineering manager responsible for hiring, performance, and career development.
Technical depth in backend engineering and/or infrastructure, such as APIs, integrations, data pipelines, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure.
Experience owning system design decisions and operating production systems at scale.
Ability and willingness to remain closely involved in technical work and participate effectively in design reviews.
Experience growing engineers into senior and lead roles.
Direct, specific, and kind feedback style.
Sound delivery judgment, including the ability to scope, sequence, and cut work to ship reliably.
Experience in a technically complex environment, such as a scale-up, big-tech platform team, engineering-focused finance firm, or organization with a serious AWS footprint.
Willingness to work from the New York office; this is not a remote role.

Nice To Haves

Healthcare experience.
Experience leading a migration from CDKTF.
Familiarity with Python, Go, TypeScript, React, HTMX, Nix, AWS, or CDKTF.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow a team of around 10 engineers, including regular one-on-ones, feedback, development plans, performance reviews, and career growth.
Define hiring needs, run interview loops, assess candidates, and recruit engineers for the team.
Build a team culture centered on ownership, care, and high standards.
Plan and sequence work to support predictable execution and high-quality delivery.
Partner with product, clinical, and customer-facing teams to translate healthcare workflows into roadmaps and specifications.
Work with enterprise customers' technical teams to scope integrations and support deployments.
Own the reliability of the team's systems, maintain a healthy on-call rotation, serve as an incident escalation point, and ensure postmortem follow-through.
Review system designs, architecture decisions, and code, and guide technical trade-offs.
Contribute hands-on through prototyping, debugging, or building internal tools where it benefits the team.
Raise engineering practices and standards as the team grows.
Partner with leadership on team structure, hiring plans, and scaling the engineering organization.