We exist to lift as many people up the socioeconomic ladder as possible. We dramatically improve lives, by letting healthcare professionals turn extra time and ambition into career growth and financial opportunity. We achieve this with our app-based marketplace that connects healthcare facilities and healthcare professionals, allowing healthcare professionals to book on-demand shifts and healthcare facilities to access on-demand talent. Our mission is to enable healthcare professionals to work when and where they want, and to enable healthcare facilities to meet their talent needs.
About Clipboard Health:
Clipboard Health is a post-Series C, extremely fast-growing tech startup with classic two-sided network effects, revolutionizing the market for healthcare talent. We are a diverse and inclusive company with a global, remote team. We’ve been featured on YC’s Top Companies and grown 20x+ since January 2021. There has never been a more exciting time to join our growing team and help us serve even more healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities, who can then better serve patients. To learn more about working at Clipboard Health, take a look at our Careers page and how we work.
We are a globally distributed team with folks from the United States, Canada, Chile, Mongolia, Turkey, India, Madagascar, Ukraine, Indonesia, Brazil, Colombia… and more. Our values center around customer centricity, urgency, curiosity, and ownership. We are all empowered to fix the problems we see, there are no “toes” to be stepped on. A team went off and created a new SaaS product, another team rewrote a core service under a new architecture. We believe in our collective mission and do what it takes to move the needle on that goal.
Your Mission: Build, Lead, and Deliver with Impact
As our Principal Engineering Manager, you are more than a leader—you are a mentor, strategist, and problem solver. You’ll oversee both people and processes, guiding talented engineers toward high-impact delivery. If you are energized by scaling teams, aligning product and engineering goals, and solving real-world problems, this is the perfect opportunity to make your mark.
What You’ll Do: Own the Process, Build the Future
- Lead and Manage Engineering Teams: You’ll own the team’s process, delivery, and execution, ensuring they work optimally and with high quality.
- Partner with Product Managers and Customers: Collaborate to create your team’s roadmap, aligning on priorities that meet both business goals and customer needs.
- Provide Technical Guidance: While you may not code every day, you’ll review PRs, architecture, and design documents, providing technical coaching and feedback to ensure high-quality solutions.
- Drive Performance Management: You will be responsible for your team’s performance, identifying and addressing any issues proactively. Provide immediate and actionable feedback to support continuous improvement.
- Mentor for Growth: Help engineers realize their full potential, fostering a growth mindset and creating personalized development plans.
- Own and Optimize Engineering Processes: We believe in streamlining and improving processes. You’ll craft team goals and raise the technical bar across the company, promoting a culture of constant feedback and transparency.
- Lead Hiring and Talent Development: Participate in all stages of hiring, onboarding, and retaining top talent, contributing to our team’s rapid growth.
- Solve Problems Proactively: At Clipboard Health, “We don’t have any toes to step on.” If you see a problem, you own it and fix it.
- Engage in Open Conversations: Expect transparent, open forums where feedback flows freely, and bring your curiosity to engage with first-principles thinking.
What You Bring to the Table: A Unique Blend of Skills and Experience
- 6+ years of software development experience, with 2+ years leading software development professionals as an Engineering Manager, Tech Lead, or Founder.
- Experience managing agile, high-performing teams in fast-paced, geographically dispersed environments.
- Performance Management Expertise: Comfortable addressing performance issues head-on and providing coaching that empowers engineers at all levels.
- Customer-Centric Problem Solver: A deep appreciation for customer needs, with the ability to translate ambiguous problems into actionable solutions.
- Strong Communication Skills: You excel in writing and speaking clearly, breaking down complex concepts into simple components for engineers and non-technical stakeholders alike.
- Hands-On Development and System Design: While primarily focused on leadership, you maintain technical fluency and experience with system design and coding.
- Comfortable Navigating Difficult Conversations: You are decisive and direct, capable of delivering constructive feedback and addressing problems promptly.
- Experienced in Team Growth: Skilled in hiring, onboarding, and retaining top talent to build high-performing teams.
- Balanced Collaboration: Equally at ease working with technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring alignment at all levels.
Bonus Points For:
- Experience as a startup founder or in startup environments.
- Familiarity with Next.js, Tailwind UI, Flutter, or microservices architecture.
- Proven success managing distributed teams and supporting web or mobile applications.
Why Clipboard Health?
- 100% remote, flexible working hours.
- Unlimited PTO
- Async first, with sync collaboration as it’s needed.
- This is a high-impact role. From the hiring, onboarding, team execution, and talent practices to customer impact, new verticals, and technical up-levelling of the team: there's room for improvement on it all, and we are looking for people who want to build the new era of Clipboard Health with us.
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What We Do
Clipboard Health uses technology to help nursing facilities (SNFs, senior care, hospitals) get the right nurse at the right place at the right time (CNAs, LVNs, RNs, NPs, etc). There is a well-known shortage of nurses nationwide, meanwhile many new nursing graduates are still unable to find a job 18 months after graduation. Clipboard health aims to solve this problem for the 4 million nurses who comprise one of top three most common jobs in the country. With a presence in multiple locations around the country, Clipboard Health is an alumnus of the incubator Y Combinator.
