Engineering Manager

Position overview

What we do

At Founda, we're driven by a deep curiosity about the future of healthcare. Our mission is to build the global infrastructure that empowers innovators to shape tomorrow's healthcare system.

Founda Health is at the forefront of healthcare innovation, redefining how clinical data moves between systems. We are passionate in enabling change, dedicated to overcoming healthcare's connectivity hurdles and ensuring seamless data exchange between electronic healthcare systems and cutting-edge digital health solutions. We aim to free healthcare professionals and digital health companies from administrative burdens, allowing them to prioritize patient care above all else.

As an engineering manager, your role will be instrumental in advancing execution on our healthcare interoperability platform. We're currently developing a self-service global infrastructure designed to facilitate seamless, secure, and compliant data exchange between data providers (such as care providers) and data consumers (including applications, lab systems, IoT devices, and other care providers). Our mission extends to a global scale, presenting an array of challenges due to diverse healthcare processes, diverse electronic health record (EHR) implementations, unique terminologies, fragmented data (standards), and varying regulations.

Your responsibilities include:

• Lead and support a team of 8+ software engineers, fostering both technical and personal growth through coaching, mentoring, and encouragement.
• Drive the successful execution of engineering initiatives by leading with focus and structure, ensuring quality is prioritized over quantity.
• Take full responsibility for continuously evolving the engineering excellence roadmap.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement technology solutions that enhance our healthcare interoperability platform.
• Guide your team through OKR cycles, ensuring alignment and progress toward shared goals.
• Ensure your team operates in compliance with our growing list of regulatory and security frameworks.
• Stay connected with the codebase. Use 30-40% of the time to take on small improvements, code reviews, proof-of-concepts or spend time writing new (technical) proposals.

This role reports to the VP of Engineering.

In our engineering team:

• We value teamwork and collaborate to tackle complex problems.
• We actively contribute to the roadmap.
• We perform code reviews and test our work. These activities are integral to our daily workflow. We prioritize quality over quantity.
• We all have the ability to push code to production; ownership is a core value.
• We can contribute across the entire codebase, ensuring a collaborative and inclusive environment.
• We have engineering leadership that has a technical background. We provide mentorship and guidance.
• We are committed to your individual growth and invest in your professional development.
• We work on projects that positively impact the world every day.
• We have a remote-first culture, but like to meet once a week in our clubhouse.

Our Technology Stack

• Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS.
• Back-end: Node.js, Typescript, Golang, Python, Postgres, Redpanda, Redis, Pact.
• Front-end: Vue 3, Typescript, Nuxt, Vite, Pinia, Antdv, Pact, Playwright.
• Tooling: Gitlab, Elastic, Prometheus, Alert manager, Github co-pilot, Unleash, Sentry, ArgoCD, Linear.
• Working methodology: Shape up.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Has 5 to 10 years of experience as a software engineer, with some exposure to the Golang ecosystem being a plus.
• Balances a focus on both people and execution, while remaining hands-on around 30-40% of the time.
• Has a few years of team-lead or Engineering management experience and is eager to grow along the management path.
• Champions a strong engineering culture where both people and technology can excel.
• Embraces a proactive, can-do and growth-oriented mindset.
• Demonstrates calm, balanced leadership, effectively blending empathy with accountability, while confidently making decisions and providing constructive feedback.

We encourage applications from candidates from underrepresented groups in technology, particularly women and individuals from diverse backgrounds, to help us build a more inclusive workplace.

The Recruitment Process

1. Introductory call (30 mins) - with our People Partner
2. Peer management session (45 mins) - with two peer engineering managers. A conversation focused on your management experience and leadership style.
3. Technical Deep-Dive Session (75 mins) - with two of your future peer engineers. A technical conversation covering a wide range of topics focused on our technical stack.
4. Conversation with our VP of Engineering (45 mins). A final conversation to talk about company goals, your ambitions and shared expectations.
5. Our offer. Including all the time and space you need to ask any questions. Our people team is ready to support you in this final step.

Why choose Founda Health:

1. Attractive salary.
2. Work with purpose, meaning & ownership.
3. Work-from-home budgets to set up your home office.
4. A minimum of 25 holidays a year, with the flexibility to take more if needed.
5. Extended maternity and paternity leave policies.
6. Access to a beautiful clubhouse on a central local in Amsterdam
7. Fun & Social events to relax and connect.

Join Us in Our Mission

We aspire to become the leading platform for data exchange within the global healthcare landscape. It's an ambitious and challenging goal, and we invite you to join us on this exciting journey. We understand that ideal candidates may not fit every requirement perfectly, and we encourage you to apply if the main qualifications align with your skills and experience.

Research has shown that many candidates hesitate to apply unless they meet all requirements listed in job ads. At our company, we value diverse perspectives and experiences, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

If you're excited about our mission and believe you can contribute to our team, we would love to hear from you!