Engineering Manager

The core responsibilities for the job include the following:
Engineering Leadership and People Management:
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 5-12 full-stack and backend engineers.
Run structured 1:1s, quarterly performance reviews, and career development conversations.
Drive hiring for the India engineering org, interview, assess, and onboard engineers.
Foster a culture of ownership, psychological safety, and continuous improvement.
Technical Architecture:
Collaborate with senior engineers and US architects on system design and technical direction.
Lead architecture reviews for new features and platform changes.
Make sound technology trade-off decisions across the MERN + PostgreSQL + AWS stack.
Ensure systems are designed for scalability, observability, and HIPAA compliance.
Code Quality and Process:
Own and evolve the code review process, set standards, enforce them, and lead by example.
Define and roll out engineering best practices: branching strategy, PR workflows, testing standards, and documentation.
Establish sprint cadences, definition of done, and engineering SLAs in coordination with product.
Drive incident response practices and post-mortem culture.
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
Partner with Product Management and US leads to refine roadmap items into engineering-ready specs.
Participate in architecture discussions around FHIR R4 EHR integrations and data pipelines.
Provide engineering effort estimates and technical risk assessments for planning cycles.
Tech Stack and Environment:
Frontend: React.js, React Native (mobile).
Backend: Node.js (Express), REST APIs.
Database: PostgreSQL (multi-schema, complex queries, views).
Cloud and Infra: AWS (ECS, RDS, ALB, Cognito, S3 CloudWatch), us-east-1 Multi-AZ.
Integrations: HL7 FHIR R4 Mirth Connect, Epic App Orchard, Athenahealth.
Requirements:
8-13 years of total software engineering experience, with 4+ years managing or technically leading a team.
Strong hands-on proficiency in Node.js and React.js (MERN minus MongoDB).
Deep experience with PostgreSQL schema design, query optimization, and connection management.
Proven ability to lead architecture discussions and technical design reviews.
Experience running or significantly contributing to engineering process setup: code review culture, sprint processes, on-call/incident management.
Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, comfortable with async US-India collaboration.
Preferred:
Hands-on AWS experience with ECS, RDS, ALB, or similar managed services.
Familiarity with Mirth Connect or healthcare interoperability middleware.
Prior startup or scale-up experience where you helped build engineering culture from scratch.

Experience
11-15 yrs