Healthcare quality is declining and soaring costs are crushing American families and businesses. At Garner, we’ve developed a revolutionary approach to evaluating doctor performance and a unique incentive model that's reshaping the healthcare economy to ensure everyone can afford high quality care. By providing organizations relief from surging healthcare costs, we've experienced rapid adoption in the market and have more than doubled our revenue annually over the last 5 years, becoming the fastest growing company in our space. To support our continued growth, we're expanding our team by over 50% each year, seeking exceptional talent to shape our unique, award winning culture (for example, USA Today Top Workplaces 2025) designed to cultivate teamwork, trust, autonomy, exceptional results, and individual growth that creates an inflection point in your career.
We are looking for a Director, Engineering to lead our Search team. The Search team owns our provider recommendations system, provider data aggregation pipelines, and our AI-powered member support systems. This role reports to the Chief Technology Officer.
Where you will work:This role will be based in our New York City office. You must be willing to work in the office 3 days per week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Relocation assistance is available for non-local candidates.
What you will do:- Lead the development of a world-class Search system that organizes provider data in order to deliver relevant and impactful recommendations to our members
- Own and drive the execution of relevant quarterly deliverables and long-term strategy
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to align strategies and achieve company objectives
- Provide leadership and guidance to your teams, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and accountability
- Ensure your team proactively incorporates relevant new technologies, system designs, and strategies, especially in the domains of big data, ML, and AI
- Influence relevant partner teams in order to accelerate delivery across the organization
- Champion and ensure the privacy and security of our users’ data
- Mentor, grow, and recruit Garner’s next generation of engineering leaders
- 6+ years in software engineering, including 3+ years managing software or data engineering teams
- 1+ year managing engineering managers
- Experience building ML-powered systems and leveraging MLOps best practices
- Strong background in distributed systems, large-scale data processing (e.g., Airflow, Spark, Flink), and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar)
- Experience with personalization, recommendation, or search systems preferred
- Ability to translate complex business needs into a clear, executable technical roadmap
- Experience working with regulated data; healthcare data standards (HIPAA, EDI) a plus
- A willingness to “roll up your sleeves” and do whatever is necessary to ensure company success
- Experience working in a rapidly evolving startup environment
- A desire to be a part of our mission to improve the U.S. healthcare system
- Python, TypeScript, React, Kubernetes, Postgres, AWS, NATS, Airflow, Snowflake
The target salary range for this position is $285,000 - $315,000. Individual compensation for this role will depend on various factors, including qualifications, skills, and applicable laws. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible to participate in our equity incentive and competitive benefits plans, including but not limited to: flexible PTO, Medical/Dental/Vision plan options, 401(k), Teladoc Health and more.
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Equal Employment Opportunity:Garner Health is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and values diversity in the workplace. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.Garner Health is committed to providing accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected].
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Garner Health is a health tech startup that is transforming the healthcare economy by enabling patients to receive high-quality and affordable care. Garner Health has two core offerings: Garner, a benefit program that uses a new approach to data science and incentive accounts to help employees find the best doctors in their communities, and Garner DataPro, a provider recommendation platform that serves referrals based on the most accurate provider performance and directory data in the industry. Garner Health’s offerings utilize over 75% of the medical claims data in the United States to objectively examine patient outcomes based on more than 500 specialty-specific quality and efficiency measures. By analyzing millions of healthcare journeys across 82 distinct medical specialties, Garner Health sets a new industry standard in delivering reliable, actionable referrals and navigating patients to the highest-quality providers. Garner Health is a remote-first company based in NYC.
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Our values connect us in caring deeply about doing something different and hard — transforming the healthcare economy. They create an actionable set of norms for how we operate, including how we make decisions and support one another. Learn about our values here: https://www.getgarner.com/about.
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