Linus Health is a Boston-based digital health company focused on transforming brain health for people across the world. By advancing how we detect, diagnose, and address cognitive and brain disorders – leveraging cutting-edge neuroscience, clinical expertise, and artificial intelligence – our goal is to enable a future where people can live longer, happier, and healthier lives with better brain health.

We are a team of 100+(and growing!), embarking on an exciting period of accelerated growth.  We invite collaborative, self-driven and impact-oriented professionals to join our dynamic and fast-growing team.

Does this sound like an innovative & disruptive start-up where you could see yourself?  If so, please continue reading!

The Role

The Software Engineering Manager (EM) is responsible for managing a team of software engineers dedicated to delivering high quality solutions to our customers. The EM will collaborate with key stakeholders to define and execute a product roadmap delivering valuable functionality that solidifies Linus Health products' place in the market. The ideal candidate has recent (within 3 years) hands-on software development experience and is able to contribute to the technical direction of their team. This role would be working with the Life Sciences team.

Working Hours

Linus Health is a distributed company with a headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts and many remote employees across numerous time zones. Linus Health fully supports those who wish to work remotely, and to facilitate collaboration with all team members we do ask for a core set of working hours of 9am to 5pm eastern time. We have a strong preference for this person to be based in Boston or Canada(EST).

What You'll Do:

• Act as a senior technical resource for the team when needed
• Provide input on technical design proposals and pull requests ensuring quality code is delivered by the team
• Lead and support a distributed team of mobile and web developers holding 1-on-1s and mentoring team members
• Establish goals, monitor progress against those goals, and provide feedback to help team members achieve their goals
• Foster a spirit of teamwork, cohesiveness, appreciation of diversity, and collaboration to enable each team member and the engineering organization as a whole to be successful 
• Establish and support your team in executing best practices throughout the SDLC
• Run or facilitate the running of agile ceremonies by coordinating with product management, quality engineers, software engineers, and designers
• Establish roadmaps, track releases, identify dependencies, highlight blockers and report on progress to stakeholders
• Foster an environment that promotes the creation of quality code and meticulous quality control
• Gather, and monitor engineering metrics data for strategic planning 
• Support documentation of architecture, compliance, testing, and specific project specifications
• Work cross functionally with product, data science, business development, customer success, medical and finance teams to design and execute an engineering roadmap
• Create transparency through regular, open communication, both with direct reports and with upper management
• Mentor the team, promote collaboration, and dynamically solve communication issues to address technical challenges
• Encourage iteration over perfection and decisiveness instead of over-analysis. 
• Serve as the first line of defense working with CS and Sales to triage production issues

About You:

Must Haves

• A Computer Science, Physics, Math, Engineering, Business or similar BA/BS degree
• Demonstrated success supporting and leading software engineering teams
• Effective leadership and interpersonal skills, and a passion for mentoring
• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• 4+ years of software management experience or experience acting as a technical lead and mentor
• Proficient in one or more of the following: Javascript/typescript, Java, Python
• Proficient in relational databases
• Meaningful work experience developing mobile and/or web based applications
• Excellent communication and organization skills
• Proven experience in a start-up or smaller fast paced environment 

Nice To Haves:

• Experience with Typescript
• Familiarity with npm modules, and Node.js
• Familiarity with web and/or mobile testing frameworks
• Healthcare domain experience
• Experience with web and mobile being equivalent priorities for an engineering organization

What We Offer:

• As a brain health company, you'll have an opportunity to have a lasting impact on the way people and communities engage with brain and mental health, and even to affect the prognoses of people’s mental and brain health trajectory
• A mission driven environment where all 100+ employees strive to exemplify our core values every day
• Unlimited PTO -- We know this can work both ways, however our leadership team does an excellent job at encouraging people to take PTO
• A sincere and deep appreciation for the importance of mental health: We have recently implemented a “monthly flex day” where employees are encouraged to take time away from work to rest, recharge & reset.
• A peer-to-peer recognition program: Celebrating our employees’ hard work and success is in our DNA!
• Employee Referral Incentive program
• A robust healthcare package that includes medical, dental & vision benefits as well as a 401(k) program where Linus will match up to 6% of employee contributions

Linus Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, genetic information, disability or any characteristic protected by law. We believe that diversity is critical to the growth of our company and understand the importance of fostering an environment where everyone has a voice. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities during the recruiting process. If you are in need of assistance due to a disability, please contact us.