Team Lead, Software Engineering

About Equip 

Equip is the leading virtual, evidence-based eating disorder treatment program on a mission to ensure that everyone with an eating disorder can access treatment that works. Created by clinical experts in the field and people with lived experience, Equip builds upon evidence-based treatments to empower individuals to reach lasting recovery. All Equip patients receive a dedicated care team, including a therapist, dietitian, physician, and peer and family mentor. The company operates in all 50 states and is partnered with most major health insurance plans. Learn more about our strong outcomes and treatment approach at www.equip.health.

Founded in 2019, Equip has been a fully virtual company since its inception and is proud of the highly-engaged, passionate, and diverse Equisters that have created Equip’s culture.  Recognized by Time as one of the most influential companies of 2023, along with awards from Linkedin and Lattice, we are grateful to Equipsters for building a sustainable treatment program that has served thousands of patients and families.

About the Role
As a Team Lead at Equip, you'll create and lead a new engineering team, focusing on culture, product development, and team empowerment. The role blends technical leadership with management responsibilities, suitable for those with a hands-on engineering background.

The Team Lead has a track-record as an engineer and wants to continue growing as a technical leader focusing on people and product. The Team Lead is going to contribute a blend of technical, people, and product experience.

Responsibilities

• Leading and mentoring a team of engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Designing and planning application engineering projects.

• Providing hands-on technical guidance to your team.

• Maintaining subject matter expertise in the information systems and types of data at Equip.

• Championing engineering best practices (version control, testing, documentation, logging, continuous integration) and data quality standards.

• Monitoring key quality metrics and identifying opportunities for improvements in our pipelines and infrastructure.

• Ensuring the delivery of high-quality work within expected timelines.

• Partnering with technical stakeholders to optimize the flow of data across systems.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, computer science, or similar field; or equivalent work experience

• 2+ yrs of engineering leadership experience.

• 8+ years of overall developer experience.

• Proven experience designing and building mobile applications in iOS and Android.

• Have grown and managed teams of engineers.

• Experience with the below technology stack highly preferred:

  • Java, JavaScript, React, React Native

  • DB: PostgreSQL (or other SQL databases).

  • Cloud: AWS services.

  • Tools: Git, Github.

• Have a strong engineering background: building business specific systems that all other engineering teams use in a scaling company.

• Good product sense, working closely with customers.

• Must have experience building large scale applications with well defined architectures.

• Be able to work Easter or Central time zones. Either 9 - 5 Eastern or 8 - 4 Central.

• Experience developing products is a plus.

• A mix of scrappy startup and big company experience is a plus.

• Experience with healthcare data and/or previous experience working in healthtech is a plus.

Benefits

Time Off:

• Flex PTO policy (3-5 wks/year recommended) + 11 paid company holidays.

Medical Benefits:

• Competitive Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&D insurance.

• Equip pays for a significant percentage of benefits premiums for individuals and families.

• Maven, a company paid reproductive and family care benefit for all employees.

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP), a company paid resource for mental health, legal services, financial support, and more!

Physical Demands

Work is performed 100% from home with no requirement to travel. This is a stationary position that requires the ability to operate standard office equipment and keyboards as well as to talk or hear by telephone. Sit or stand as needed.

At Equip, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) are woven into everything we do. At the heart of Equip’s mission is a relentless dedication to making sure that everyone with an eating disorder has access to care that works regardless of race, gender, sexuality, ability, weight, socio-economic status, and any marginalized identity. We also strive toward our providers and corporate team reflecting that same dedication both in bringing in and retaining talented employees from all backgrounds and identities. We have an Equip DEIB council, Equip For All; also referred to as EFA. EFA at Equip aims to be a space driven by mutual respect, and thoughtful, effective communication strategy - enabling full participation of  members who identify as marginalized or under-represented and allies, amplifying diverse voices, creating opportunities for advocacy and contributing to the advancement of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging at Equip.

As an equal opportunity employer, we provide equal opportunity in all aspects of employment, including recruiting, hiring, compensation, training and promotion, termination, and any other terms and conditions of employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, familial status, age, disability, weight, and/or any other legally protected classification protected by federal, state, or local law. 

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