Engineering Manager - Integrations

Pivotal Health

$140K — $180K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in STEM preferred, or equivalent experience
  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, focusing on backend work
  • 2+ years managing and developing engineers
  • Experience with third-party API integrations, especially in healthcare
  • Strong communication skills for customer-facing roles
  • Comfortable shaping team dynamics and operations in emerging environments
  • Ability to balance immediate project needs with long-term technical strategy

Responsibilities

  • Establish and shape the new Integrations team and its operational framework
  • Act as a player-coach, contributing code and guiding technical strategy
  • Manage end-to-end ownership of integration systems with external platforms
  • Engage with customers and partners to gather technical requirements
  • Collaborate with product teams to align engineering with integration needs
  • Plan and execute sprint activities to ensure consistent delivery
  • Clarify ambiguous engineering challenges into actionable tasks and criteria
  • Create streamlined processes that enhance team efficiency and predictability
  • Mentor and develop engineers in their technical and collaborative skills

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation, including equity
  • Full health, dental, and vision coverage
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan
  • Flexible time off policy
  • Opportunities for company-wide connection and events
Full Job Description
About the Role

We're hiring a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead Pivotal's Integrations team, a backend-focused group building the infrastructure that connects our platform to the external systems our clients and providers depend on, including healthcare data sources, EHR platforms, billing systems, and partner APIs.

This team is new and still taking shape, which means the right EM isn't just leading a function, they're helping define it. You'll be involved in customer and partner conversations, shaping how the team approaches integration problems at a technical and product level, and building a team that can work fluidly across messy real-world data, evolving requirements, and close customer collaboration.

This is a true player-coach role. You will write code, drive delivery, and raise the bar for engineering quality today while also developing the team and establishing strong practices as we scale. If you're energized by greenfield scope, external-facing work, and the challenge of building something new, this role is for you.

What You'll Do
  • Stand up and shape a new team: Help define how the Integrations function operates (hiring, scope, rituals, and engineering culture) while the team is still being built and ownership boundaries are still being established.
  • Lead as a player-coach: Contribute code, perform design reviews and PRs, and guide technical strategy while supporting the growth and effectiveness of the team.
  • Own the Integrations surface: Take end-to-end engineering ownership of the systems that connect Pivotal's platform to customers, external data sources, healthcare platforms,, and any partner APIs. Ensure integrations are reliable, scalable, and maintainable as the catalog grows.
  • Join customer and partner conversations: Be the technical voice in discovery and scoping conversations with customers and external partners. Ask the right questions, understand integration requirements deeply, and bring that context back into engineering execution.
  • Partner deeply with product: Collaborate closely with product to gather requirements, clarify scope, and translate integration needs into executable technical plans. Help shape solutions early rather than reacting late.
  • Drive execution and delivery: Own the engineering side of delivery (sprint planning, standups, retros, prioritization) ensuring the team ships consistently and learns from each cycle.
  • Translate ambiguity into clarity: Take loosely defined problems and help the team break them down into clear, achievable work with well-understood tradeoffs and success criteria.
  • Build lightweight process and rituals: Establish and evolve team workflows that improve focus and predictability without unnecessary ceremony.
  • Support and grow engineers: Coach engineers on execution, communication, and ownership across both IC and managerial tracks.

Who You Are
  • Bachelor's degree in STEM preferred; additional experience in lieu of a degree is also accepted
  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including recent hands-on backend work
  • 2+ years of experience managing and developing engineers
  • Experience building or owning integrations with third-party APIs, healthcare systems, and data-heavy enterprise software
  • Strong customer-facing communication skills: you're comfortable in external conversations with customers and partners, not just internal stakeholders
  • Able to ask the right technical and business questions in discovery conversations and translate what you learn into engineering direction
  • Comfortable shaping team scope, contributing to hiring, and helping define a function that is still emerging
  • Experience working in product-driven environments with close product partnership
  • Strong technical judgment with a bias toward pragmatic, shippable solutions
  • Able to balance near-term delivery with longer-term technical health
  • Clear communicator who builds trust across engineering, product, and external partners
  • Thrives in early-stage or scaling environments where structure is evolving

Extra Credit Experience
  • Experience in healthcare integrations: EDI workflows (835/837), HL7/FHIR, ICD-10/CPT codes, or platforms like Epic or Cerner
  • Background in integration-heavy or forward-deployed engineering roles where customer proximity was part of the job
  • Experience with SFTP-based ingestion, data sharing pipelines, or clinical data access systems
  • Familiarity with Python in production backend environments
  • Experience at a Series A or early-stage startup where priorities evolve quickly and leaders wear multiple hats
  • Background in FinTech, healthcare, or another highly regulated industry
  • Familiarity with Python a plus


Benefits Include:
  • Competitive compensation, including equity
  • Full health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Retirement savings plan through 401(k)
  • Flexible time off
  • Opportunities for company-wide connection and events

Ready to Make an Impact?We're building something meaningful; and we want you on the team.

Bring your ideas, curiosity, and drive, and let's transform healthcare reimbursement together.

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Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.

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