About Us

Heartbeat Health is a venture-backed health tech startup in New York. We are working to deliver the most effective, efficient, and engaging virtual heart care in the world. By 2030, over 40% of the US population will have heart disease, with direct and indirect costs approaching $1 trillion USD. Heart disease may be the most important health crisis we confront in our time.  

Heartbeat addresses this problem via virtual cardiology services that include diagnostic interpretation, telecardiology, and procedural referrals to bring virtual-first care to cardiology, and improve the outcomes and efficiency for cardiac patients.

Our team consists of passionate and proven physicians, engineers, scientists, designers, and founders attacking this problem from first principles, applying human-centered design, and developing evidence-based AI to solve this global issue. We collaborate with the American College of Cardiology, and we have been recognized as one of the 150 most promising digital health startups by CB Insights. We recently closed our Series B funding and are backed by Echo Health Ventures, Optum Ventures, DaVita Venture Group, .406 Ventures, Kindred Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Designer Fund, and Max Ventures. We’ve been featured in TechCrunch, CNBC, Fast Company, and Forbes.

Heartbeat Health is seeking a stellar Lead Front End Engineer to join our team. You’ll report to our CTO and help us build, launch, and scale the technology and experience that powers Heartbeat.

About the gig

• Work with engineering leadership to set, communicate, and execute the technology vision and strategy across the entire organization.
• Lead a small team of frontend engineers to define, design, develop, and deploy user-facing, cross-platform applications for desktop and mobile devices, and to shepherd releases continuously to the web and through respective app stores.
• Lead the development of scalable, extensible, modular, secure, and performant software features, components, interfaces, and systems for web and mobile platforms.
• Identify and solve technical problems of medium to large scope and complexity.
• Provide engineering and architecture leadership to all aspects of the system, software, data, and technical processes, including the frontend frameworks, SDLC, deployment pipeline, data models, and third-party integrations.
• Lead the design and use of frontend component libraries to promote code reuse and consistency of experience between web and mobile platforms and viewports.
• Support and maintain API integrations within the frontend codebase.
• Work with engineering leadership to define and promote adherence to team standards and best practices for code style, maintainability, testability, documentation, security, and scalability.
• Participate in regular code reviews and pair programming sessions to put team standards into practice and to improve code quality.
• As a self-started, recognize, identify, and propose solutions to technical issues that affect the effectiveness or efficiency of the team, product, or systems.
• Work with the engineering leadership and product teams to effectively and efficiently develop and maintain software features and capabilities described by the roadmap and executed with velocity in a test-driven deployment process, instrumented for measurement, documented for stakeholders, and within an agile scrum methodology.
• Work with the QA team to identify manual and automated approaches to promote frontend quality, robustness, and compatibility with supported platforms, such as web, iOS, and Android.
• Create and execute a plan to grow and improve the frontend engineering team in accordance with company goals and projections.
• Lead the interviewing, onboarding, and mentoring other software engineers.
• Maintain and promote security, compliance, and regulatory standards, such as HIPAA and SOC2, and promote system uptime, disaster mitigation, and adherence to partner SLAs.
• Work with business development, product management, and marketing leaders to solution new and strategic opportunities.
• Jump in to help the team fight any manner of fire that immediately and negatively affects the customer experience.
• As a note, our company is currently fully remote since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, you must be comfortable working remotely.

About you

• Have 7+ years of industry experience building user-facing, cross-platform web and mobile applications that deliver consumer and enterprise technology with significant scale - healthcare experience is preferred.
• Are deeply skilled in and demonstrate an obvious passion for frontend engineering, having built scalable, extensible, modular, secure, and performant software features, components, interfaces, and systems.
• Have fluency in several modern JavaScript frontend language implementations and frameworks, such as React, React Native, AngularJS, Vue.js, or native iOS and Android app development.
• Are highly adept at designing and implementing frontend components and building component libraries.
• Have extensive experience with HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript concepts, as well as writing automated tests (e.g. Jasmine Karma, Mocha), and integrating to REST or GraphQL APIs.
• Have experience or knowledge of aspects of our stack and various patterns, including use of AWS, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, React, and React Native.
• Have demonstrated success in growing, mentoring, and leading technology teams that successfully ship releases at velocity; work within an agile scrum methodology; maintain uptime; manage cost considerations; maintain security, compliance, and regulatory standards; and collaborate with all parts of the company.
• Are broadly knowledgeable about backend engineering, data science, design, and product management.
• Have an undergraduate or graduate (preferred) degree in computer science or a directly related field.
• Are incredibly creative, collaborative, and resourceful in problem solving, often starting from first principles.
• Demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Are great at time management, continuously prioritizing and completing important tasks.
• Can work closely with team members of various backgrounds, encouraging different perspectives and feedback to constantly improve technology and engineering process.
• Are a servant leader.
• Thrive working in a fast-paced startup environment.

Qualities that make a great fit include

• Understands the complexity of healthcare and the nuances of clinical workflows and reimbursement.
• Collaborates incredibly closely with technology and non-technology stakeholders, at both an individual and team-level, to align work to organization growth goals.
• Dives into need areas as an autonomous, independent, self-starter who is energized by the ability to make improvements without asking for permission.
• Drives culture within the technology team and across the company.
• Manages engineering delivery with the utmost focus, detail-orientation, and communication to promote on-time, robust, and successful releases.

Why you'll love working here

• We're mission-driven: we're revolutionizing the way cardiovascular care is delivered
• Up for the challenge: make a big impact by joining a fast-growing team in its early stages
• Great people: become a part of something incredible, and do it with an exceptionally talented, multidisciplinary team.
• We care about diversity: diversity allows us to build an excellent patient experience. We are an equal opportunity employer and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Perks: 

• opt into comprehensive health, dental and vision benefits
• enjoy flexible leave policies




In addition to finding people who are truly excellent at what they do, our team is founded on a set of values we hold close to heart:

Our Values

• Be amazing at what you do, without ego.
• Take ownership and be accountable to yourself and the team.
• Move fast with our stakeholders' best interests at heart.
• Be open to a breadth of ideas, but focused on delivery.
• Measure and improve what really matters.
• Be candid and honest with people.
• Demonstrate high integrity, always.
• Help others and appreciate those who help you.
• Be a kind and decent human.
• Have fun.

We are looking for an exceptional, experienced frontend engineering leader with a demonstrated track record of working within high-performing engineering and technology teams. You have the engineering chops to build the software and experience yourself with little direction, but your real superpower is working within a diverse and talented team to realize an even bigger technology vision that scales the company.

You’re an amazing problem solver who is open to new ideas, thoughtful in your approach, pragmatic in your delivery, constantly learning, and up for a challenge. You elevate the work of those around you.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

We do not accept unsolicited resumes from outside recruiters/placement agencies. Heartbeat will not pay fees associated with resumes presented through unsolicited means.