Engineering Manager - Medsender

The Job Sauce • New York, NY

11d • $250,000 - $300,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Medsender is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead and develop a high-performing team within a fast-moving engineering department. The role involves maintaining and elevating a culture of rapid, high-quality product delivery, improving engineering execution, and raising the technical bar as the company scales. This position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on how products are built, shipped, and grown, without introducing excessive process or bureaucracy. The Engineering Manager will report directly to the CTO and collaborate with senior technical leaders.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of formal engineering management or team lead experience, ideally leading teams of 4-10 engineers.
• Strong technical foundation with the ability to contribute to architecture discussions, evaluate system designs, review code, and guide engineers.
• Track record of shipping products in fast-paced environments with a focus on rapid iteration, high-quality code, and consistent delivery.
• Demonstrated success in coaching and developing engineers, managing performance, delivering actionable feedback, and building high-performing teams.
• Strong ability to prioritize work, coordinate dependencies, remove blockers, and drive projects from planning through production.
• Pragmatic approach to engineering excellence, balancing speed, quality, and reliability with lightweight processes.
• Comfortable operating in a small, high-ownership startup environment with quickly moving priorities and ambiguity.
• Clear communicator and collaborative leader capable of aligning engineers and stakeholders, setting expectations, and fostering accountability, autonomy, and continuous improvement.

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading engineering teams at early-stage or high-growth startups.
• Experience building production systems in healthcare, fintech, or other environments where reliability, security, and data privacy are critical.
• Familiarity with Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Go, GCP, and Kubernetes.
• Experience implementing or improving engineering practices around CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and production reliability.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.) or helping teams adopt AI-driven development workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of 4-5 engineers, including performance management, coaching, mentorship, career development, and feedback.
• Drive engineering velocity and execution by keeping the team focused, aligned, and unblocked, improving prioritization, coordination, and delivery.
• Establish and reinforce high standards for code quality, system reliability, technical decision-making, and operational excellence.
• Stay technically engaged by partnering with engineers on architecture, system design, and code reviews, providing hands-on technical guidance and contributing code when appropriate.
• Build a culture of ownership and accountability by setting clear expectations, developing individual contributors, identifying performance gaps, and empowering engineers.
• Continuously improve engineering processes to identify bottlenecks, reduce rework, and enhance productivity.
• Champion AI-assisted development by helping the team leverage AI coding tools and workflows.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to align priorities, improve execution, and scale the engineering organization.

Benefits

• $250,000 - $300,000 base salary and equity package (early exercise, extended exercise).
• Great health benefits (health, dental, and vision).
• Unlimited paid time off (PTO) and holiday schedule.
• Regular company off-sites and engineering meetups.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed