Athelas

Engineering Manager, R&D

Athelas$140K — $180K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of software development experience in fast-paced environments
  • 1+ years of engineering leadership experience including mentoring
  • Strong individual contributor with coding skills and problem-solving ability
  • Expertise in backend (Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes) and frontend development (JavaScript, React)
  • Excellent communication skills for cross-functional collaboration
  • Passion for healthcare innovation
  • Experience managing teams of 8+ engineers with sub-team leads,

Responsibilities

  • Lead and grow a team of 3+ engineers, ensuring clarity and collaboration
  • Maintain a startup mindset in a fast-paced environment
  • Own technical execution and delivery of backend systems and automation
  • Partner closely with cross-functional teams to deliver solutions
  • Manage project prioritization and resource allocation
  • Uphold high standards in system design and engineering operations
  • Coach engineers, fostering a culture of growth and performance

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model based in Mountain View, CA headquarters
  • Opportunity to work on innovative healthcare technology
  • Engage in a dynamic and collaborative team environment
  • Support for career growth and development of engineering skills
  • Be part of impactful projects that influence patient care
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are seeking an Engineering Manager who will manage the R&D engineering team at Commure, the team taking emerging technology from inception to impact. We scout new capabilities - a frontier LLM that can chain tool calls, browser agents that can navigate the web, new agent harnesses that can self improve - and figure out how to productionize them for healthcare. Our job is the full arc: research the technology, productize it, deliver it to customers, and own it as a P&L until it graduates.

Graduation has taken the following shapes in the past:
  • Embedded into an existing product - e.g., the AI Copilot in our practice management suite.
  • Becomes its own product - e.g., Air, the EHR.
  • Becomes an internal RCM workflow that saves the company millions annually - e.g., EOB web agents and appeal agents.


This role will be hybrid and based in our Mountain View, CA headquarters.

What You'll Do
  • Lead and grow a team of 3+ engineers, ensuring clarity of purpose, healthy execution, and strong collaboration
  • Maintain the team's startup mindset as we grow, excelling in fast-paced environments where priorities and objectives can shift
  • Own the technical execution and delivery of the backend systems, automation platforms, and agent infrastructure that power this pipeline - ensuring they scale alongside the company
  • Partner closely with Product, Ops, and cross-functional teams to translate high-value problems into shipped solutions, filling gaps as necessary across the research-to-production spectrum
  • Manage project and resource prioritization, ensuring the team works on the most important work streams with the right level of urgency and technical rigor
  • Uphold high standards in system design, code quality, and engineering operations, fostering a culture of reliability and ownership
  • Coach and develop engineers, supporting career growth, technical excellence, and a high-performing culture that can move from 0 to 1 and sustain what it builds


What You Have
  • 4+ years of experience developing software, with a background in shipping products in a fast-paced, rapidly scaling environment
  • 1+ years of experience leading engineering teams, including mentoring, performance reviews, and fostering a culture of growth and collaboration
  • A strong foundation as an individual contributor, with the ability to roll up your sleeves, dive into the codebase, and problem-solve directly alongside the team when needed
  • Strong technical background with expertise in modern backend development (e.g., Python - fastAPI, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes) and frontend development (Javascript - React) to build broad, event-driven platforms
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate strongly with cross-functional teams and effectively present technical concepts to leadership
  • A passion for healthcare innovation and making a meaningful impact on patient care
  • Experience managing and scaling teams of 8+ engineers, ideally with sub-team leads or tech leads reporting to you
  • Proven ability to deliver platform-scale systems that are reliable, maintainable, and scalable
  • Proven experience as a technical leader with the ability to make key architectural and strategic decisions that influence the overall product direction
  • Proven ability to manage resource allocation, ensuring that projects are completed on time and with the right level of technical rigor


Please be aware that all official communication from us will come exclusively from email addresses ending in @getathelas.com, @commure.com or @augmedix.com.Any emails from other domains are not affiliated with our organization.

Employees will act in accordance with the organization's information security policies, to include but not limited to protecting assets from unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, destruction or interference nor execute particular security processes or activities. Employees will report to the information security office any confirmed or potential events or other risks to the organization. Employees will be required to attest to these requirements upon hire and on an annual basis.

About Athelas

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2016

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