Director of Engineering

Wheel is the health tech company powering the next generation of healthcare. The entire healthcare industry is racing to serve patients online, but outdated business models, technologies, and mindsets are continuing to get in the way. We pioneered a new way for companies to build and scale virtual care.

Instead of starting from scratch, companies can leverage Wheel’s virtual care platform and nationwide clinician network to develop a virtual care service — bypassing the 15 months and $15 million it can take to build from the ground up. Today, Wheel powers the most innovative companies in healthcare today, including digital health companies, clinical lab networks, retailers, traditional healthcare providers, and tech companies.

We’re a team of experts and innovators working together to solve some of healthcare’s most challenging problems in order to put great care within everyone’s reach. We’ve raised $216 million in funding and backed by top investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Tiger Global, Coatue, CRV, Tusk Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Silverton Partners.

In the last year we’re proud to have been named:

Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startups
Built In’s Best Remote-First Places to Work
CB Insights Digital Health 150
Business Insider 30 Leaders under 40 Changing Healthcare

We’re looking for people to join our team who share a passion for making a positive difference in healthcare and feel connected to our core values.

Position Summary

As the Director of Engineering at Wheel, you’ll be responsible for building software and running teams that are critical to the success of the company. You will lay the foundation for our engineering team, focused on creating technology platforms and products to support our mission to become the infrastructure of Virtual Care. In this position, you will work across the entire company, and closely with clients to define and deliver your goals. The majority of your work would be ‘green field’ with the opportunity to be part of defining best-in-class solutions to virtual care problems. You are a true people leader; someone who believes in “we” before “me” and your team’s motivation, growth, and wellbeing first. You are self-motivated, versatile, compassionate, and can work equally well in highly collaborative settings as well as those with little direction.

Responsibilities

Support, mentor, and grow your engineers to help them continuously improve
Ensure we’re constantly moving our product forward in a build-learn-iterate model
Mentor and guide team in best practices for modern web products and distributed systems
Collaborate with product, design, and leadership to ideate and develop winning products that help move the business forward
Design, build, deploy and maintain systems and user experiences that scale with a high growth company
Take ownership of new features, big and small, analyzing system and business metrics post-release

Qualifications

8+ years of management experience, running multiple teams simultaneously
You are a collaborative engineer and an empathetic person who works well within a diverse company
10+ years experience full-stack development, building real-world web applications in production environments
You can operate autonomously and have a strong desire to make an impact
Exemplary communication skills; able to explain possible solutions to non-technical team members
Bonus points if you have prior startup experience or have experience building highly scalable products. Growth startup experience - series A/B would be ideal
Proven ability to learn new technologies quickly
Thrives in a collaborative, diverse environment

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

At Wheel, we know we will go further together by celebrating diversity and that starts by honoring each of our unique lived experiences. We look for a diverse pool of applicants including those from historically marginalized groups: women, people with disabilities, people of color, formerly incarcerated people, people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or gender nonconforming, first and second generation immigrants, veterans and people from different socioeconomic backgrounds. We are committed to ensuring a safe work environment where employees are not discriminated against based on age, race, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer that believes in health, equity, equality, and prosperity for all so we can succeed in changing the way healthcare works.

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