Head of Engineering - Remote

About the Job

We're looking for a Senior Director of Engineering to lead our product engineering team. This is a high-ownership, high-visibility role that sits at the center of how Thriveworks delivers on its mission: building and operating the technology platform that connects people with the mental health care that can change their lives.

You'll be the head of engineering for our product engineering teamleading a distributed group of talented engineers, owning the technical roadmap, and setting the standard for what great engineering looks like at Thriveworks. You'll partner closely with Product and Design leadership to shape how we build, not just what we build. And you'll be a key voice in how we evolve our platformmodernizing our architecture, deepening our reliability practices, and thoughtfully bringing agentic AI into our engineering workflow.

This is a role for someone who leads from the front. You'll be close enough to the work to make good decisions and earn trust, and experienced enough to know when to delegate and when to get involved. You understand that in healthcare technology, quality and reliability aren't trade-offsthey're the job.

Your Background

You've led engineering teams through meaningful technical evolutionnot just feature delivery, but the work of making a platform more reliable, more maintainable, and more capable over time.

You've managed distributed teams and know how to build culture and alignment across time zones and chat threads. You've navigated the complexity of healthcare technology, or something close to itwhere compliance, data sensitivity, and patient impact make quality non-negotiable.

You've owned architectural decisions alongside experienced tech leads and know the difference between driving alignment and making unilateral calls. You've built or evolved platform reliability practicesincident response, observability, on-call cultureand you understand what it takes to sustain them.

Past colleagues would describe you as sharp, direct, collaborative, and deeply invested in the people around you. Bonus points if you've led teams through an agentic AI adoption curve and have real opinions about how to do it well.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a distributed product engineering team, fostering a culture of craft, psychological safety, and continuous improvement.

• Own engineering quality standardscode review practices, testing philosophy, documentation expectations, and how the team thinks about technical debt.

• Drive architectural evolution in partnership with tech leads, including ongoing modernization of our platform and our integrations with AdvanceMD EHR, Salesforce, and third-party insurance and credentialing systems.

• Own site reliability: incident response, on-call structure, observability tooling (Datadog), and the broader SRE function as it matures.

• Shape how our engineering team adopts agentic coding toolssetting the tone, building guardrails, and developing the internal practices that make AI-assisted development a genuine accelerant.

• Partner with Product and Design leadership to influence how work is scoped, sequenced, and executedensuring engineering perspective is part of the planning process, not just the delivery.

• Own the engineering hiring process end-to-end: defining roles, calibrating candidates, and building a team that raises the collective bar.

• Represent engineering in cross-functional leadership conversations, translating technical context into business impact and vice versa.

• Build and maintain a healthy, high-trust relationship with your teamcreating the conditions for engineers to do the best work of their careers.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 4 years in engineering leadership roles.

• Demonstrated success leading distributed engineering teams, including hiring, development, and culture-building.

• Hands-on experience with modern web application architectures and the judgment to make sound architectural decisions.

• Experience owning or significantly contributing to site reliability, observability, and incident management practices.

• Strong cross-functional communication skillscomfortable partnering with Product, Design, Operations, and executive stakeholders.

Preferred

• Healthcare technology experience, or experience in another regulated industry where compliance, data privacy, and system reliability are foundational.

• Familiarity with our core stack: TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, Next.js/React, PostgreSQL.

• Experience leading teams through meaningful AI tooling adoption, particularly agentic or LLM-assisted development workflows.

• Background in multi-system integration environments (EHR, CRM, payment processing, insurance verification, or similar).

• Experience scaling engineering practices in a high-growth company.

Benefits

• An amazing team culture

• Healthcare, Dental, Vision, and life insurance benefits

• 401K with 3% employer match

• Paid time off and paid holidays

• Additional coverage options are available, such as Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, and Group Accident Insurance

• Professional development & advancement opportunities

Successful Thriveworks employees believe in our mission; they embody our core values, which focus on Community, Purpose, Integrity, Access, Quality, and the ability to achieve our goals and work well together. If you fit the bill and belong on our team, apply today!

Interested in joining Team Thriveworks? We're thrilled to meet you!

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