Head of Engineering (Remote)

M3USA•Fort Washington, PA

17h•Remote

About The Position

PracticeMatch is the market leader in physician recruiting data. Hospitals and health systems across the US use it to find and reach physicians, and physicians use it to find their next role. We're profitable, two decades in, and backed by M3, a Nikkei 225 healthcare company with more than $1 billion in annual revenue. We're rebuilding PracticeMatch a piece at a time while it serves customers every day. We want a technically deep engineering leader who still builds, has modernized a live system before, and thinks AI has made this an unusually good moment to do it again. You report to the PracticeMatch CEO, who also leads M3 USA. You lead the PracticeMatch engineering and QA team. You move us from ColdFusion, SQL Server to TypeScript and Python in the cloud, incrementally. No big-bang rewrite. You're hands-on: in the code every week, writing it, reviewing it and designing it. Fully remote in the US.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
12+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including significant time in a hands-on technical role.
5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including direct management of engineering teams.
Demonstrated experience leading legacy system modernization or technology platform migration efforts.
Experience in a SaaS, data, or platform product environment.
Expert-level understanding of web application architecture.
Strong working knowledge of modern web technologies (React or equivalent front-end frameworks, RESTful APIs, cloud infrastructure, containerization).
Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines, automated test frameworks, and observability systems.
Practical knowledge of application security, data privacy, and compliance requirements in web products.
Working knowledge of agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, or equivalents) and the techniques — repository context, quality gates, review discipline — that make them reliable in production engineering.
Strong written and verbal communication.

Nice To Haves

Healthcare technology or physician recruiting industry experience.
Familiarity with the physician recruiting or healthcare data domain.

Responsibilities

Lead the modernization. Set the architecture and a phased path to it.
Build the foundations that make change safe: test automation, CI/CD, observability and the cloud platform.
Own production engineering, and when something important breaks, lead the response and fix the cause, not the symptom.
Make delivery something the business can plan on. Sales and marketing need to know what's coming next quarter, and you and the Head of Product are measured on that together. Small, frequent releases are how fast and predictable stop pulling against each other. We want honest forecasts, not padded estimates.
Make AI part of how the team builds. Shared repository context, conventions, quality gates and review discipline, working toward automation from ticket to pull request. Human review stays wherever it protects quality and compliance.
Lead by building. You'll write significant code, do much of the architecture and review most of the rest. You could do everything the team does yourself; the job is to make sure you don't have to. Go first on unfamiliar ground, then bring everyone along at their own pace. Give direct feedback early and hold a high bar without a lot of process.
Recruit, manage, and develop engineering talent at multiple levels.
Present technical information to executive, business, and engineering audiences.