Garner’s mission is to transform the healthcare economy, delivering high-quality and affordable care for all.
We are fundamentally reimagining how healthcare works in the U.S. by partnering with employers to redesign healthcare benefits using clear incentives and powerful, data-driven insights. Our approach guides employees to higher-quality, lower-cost care, creating a system that works better for everyone. Patients achieve better health outcomes, employers spend healthcare dollars more effectively, and physicians are rewarded for delivering exceptional care rather than performing more procedures.
Garner is one of the fastest-growing healthcare technology companies in the country. Our products are trusted by the most sophisticated employers and providers in the industry, and we are building a team of talented, mission-driven individuals who are motivated to make a meaningful impact on healthcare at scale.
We are seeking an exceptional Developer Experience Engineering Manager to join our Platform team. This role will report to the VP of Platform Engineering. You will lead a specialized team dedicated to revolutionizing our internal development ecosystem by integrating cutting-edge AI capabilities into our engineering workflows, ensuring that as Garner scales, our developers remain the most productive and impactful in the industry.
Where you will work:Garner is headquartered in NYC, but this position is available for individuals who are comfortable with remote work and occasional travel to HQ.
What you will do:- Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team focused on building our AI first developer platform, ensuring individual growth aligns with our mission to accelerate technical delivery
- Architect and implement AI-assisted development tools, including agentic code review, approval and agentic on-call to eliminate bottlenecks in our SDLC lifecycle
- Define and track engineering adoption, velocity and quality metrics (such as DORA metrics and AI-tooling adoption rates) to provide data-driven insights needed to justify platform investment
- Collaborate with product and security engineering leads to identify systemic bottlenecks and deploy automated solutions that allow our teams to focus on feature development
- Own the roadmap for Developer Experience, prioritizing initiatives that pay down high-impact technical debt and modernize our CI/CD and deployment tech and associated processes
- Establish standards for local development environments, ensuring every engineer at Garner has a seamless, secure, and high-leverage local development experience
- Possesses a proven track record of ownership, having successfully managed complex technical systems end-to-end while maintaining high reliability and performance standards
- Demonstrates technical mastery of modern infrastructure and AI integration, with the ability to lead technical design reviews and influence the broader engineering organization’s technical direction
- Exhibits a systematic approach to analysis, breaking down complex productivity blockers into root causes and designing scalable, AI-driven solutions to address them
- Navigates stakeholder relations with precision, effectively communicating technical trade-offs to non-technical partners and resolving cross-team dependencies to maintain high execution speed
- Prioritizes efficiency and ROI, consistently translating ambiguous developer needs into well-defined roadmaps that deliver measurable improvements to Garner’s engineering velocity
- A desire to be a part of a high-performing, mission-driven team that operates with intense urgency, a strong sense of individual accountability, and a commitment to authentic feedback
- Claude, Go, Python, Kubernetes, Istio, Datadog, AWS, Terraform
This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing company in a transformative role, helping shape the future of healthcare.
Compensation Transparency:The target salary range for this position is 219,000 to 250,000. 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].
Skills Required
- Proven track record of ownership in managing complex technical systems end-to-end.
- Technical mastery of modern infrastructure and AI integration.
- Systematic analysis of productivity blockers and scalable solution design.
- Effective communication of technical trade-offs to non-technical partners.
- Ability to prioritize efficiency and ROI in translating developer needs into roadmaps.
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Garner Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — The Garner benefit can significantly reduce out‑of‑pocket costs for those enrolled in company medical plans when care is routed to identified Top Providers. Reimbursement caps are presented as sufficient to make common services near‑zero cost when used as designed.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is described as generous, with explicit references to a 12‑week leave policy. This offers predictable support for new parents across birth, adoption, or placement.
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Flexible Benefits — Roles are structured as hybrid/remote with company‑sponsored in‑person gatherings, alongside flexible PTO for salaried staff. This combination emphasizes location flexibility while maintaining periodic in‑person connection.
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What We Do
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.
Why Work With Us
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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