Director of Product Engineering - Remote

Position Summary

Blackbird Health is looking to hire a Director of Product Engineering to join our growing Technology Leadership team. This role will own the end-to-end delivery of our core full-stack applications—from patient-facing mobile experiences to provider-facing clinical experiences. You will lead multiple product engineering areas, defining the architectural vision for our platform while fostering a high-performance culture of rapid execution (e.g., ship in a few days on occasions) and rigorous reliability (e.g., 99.9% availability, 95% code coverage). You will serve as a bridge between our cutting-edge AI research and our production software, ensuring our systems are scalable, secure, and intuitive.

What makes you, you:

• High Standards: You strive for high standards within constraints in code and user experiences, constantly raising the bar for the organization.
• Clarity of Thought: You can translate complex technical concepts into clear strategies for non-technical stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Empathy & Integrity: You lead with heart, caring deeply about the growth of your technical and clinical colleagues and the well-being of the patients we serve.
• Big Tech DNA: You understand the operational rigor of world-class engineering organizations (like Microsoft, Meta, Google) and can right-size those practices for a growth-stage company.
• Product-Minded: You don't just build to spec; you will own the spec as product engineering. You understand the business context and use data to drive engineering decisions.
• Growth Mindset: You view failures as learning opportunities and foster a psychologically safe environment where innovation can thrive.

How you'll make an impact:

• Technical Strategy: Define and execute the architectural roadmap for our web and mobile platforms, transitioning to a scalable, service-oriented architecture.
• Platform Engineering: Architect the application layer that integrates our foundational services like the EHR that houses our clinical workflows with our novel services, ensuring low latency and high reliability.
• Delivery Excellence: Adopt a move fast delivery cadence to break down complex initiatives into shippable, high-value milestones.
• Team Leadership: Manage and mentor 2-3 cross-functional squads, implementing career frameworks that foster growth and retention.
• Operational Rigor: Own the live site health by establishing SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) practices, incident response protocols, and comprehensive observability standards.
• Culture Building: Build a diverse and inclusive engineering culture that attracts top talent and balances autonomy with alignment.
• Quality Assurance: Enforce rigorous CI/CD pipelines and automated testing standards to ensure safe and frequent deployments.

The basics you'll need:

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on building complex, high-scale web and mobile applications.
• 5+ years of engineering management experience, including experience managing leads or other managers (not just individual contributors).
• Full Stack Mastery: Deep expertise in modern stacks (React, Node.js, Python) and cloud-native infrastructure (GCP, CDN, IAP)
• Architectural Depth: Proven track record of designing distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Data Privacy: Experience working in regulated environments (HIPAA, Fintech) with strict security and privacy requirements.
• Remote Fluency: Ability to lead distributed teams effectively, maintaining strong communication and collaboration across time zones.

Nice to have:

• Experience as a Product / Program Manager.
• Experience with EHR integrations (FHIR standards) or healthcare interoperability.
• Background in AI/ML application engineering, specifically working with LLMs or RAG pipelines.
• Contributions to open source projects or a history of technical writing/public speaking.

Why Blackbird is unique:

• Frontier Technology: We are building an AI-native operating system for healthcare, not just another telemedicine app.
• Ownership: You will have significant autonomy to shape the technical vision and culture of the engineering organization.
• Leadership Impact: You will report directly to technology executives and be a key voice in company-wide strategic decisions.
• Flexible schedule – set your own hours 
• Supportive work culture

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage (available on day 1 of employment)
• 401k (with a company match)
• Employer-paid life insurance coverage
• Generous paid time off
• Opportunities for career growth

Position Summary

Blackbird Health is looking to hire a Director of Product Engineering to join our growing Technology Leadership team. This role will own the end-to-end delivery of our core full-stack applications—from patient-facing mobile experiences to provider-facing clinical experiences. You will lead multiple product engineering areas, defining the architectural vision for our platform while fostering a high-performance culture of rapid execution (e.g., ship in a few days on occasions) and rigorous reliability (e.g., 99.9% availability, 95% code coverage). You will serve as a bridge between our cutting-edge AI research and our production software, ensuring our systems are scalable, secure, and intuitive.

What makes you, you:

• High Standards: You strive for high standards within constraints in code and user experiences, constantly raising the bar for the organization.
• Clarity of Thought: You can translate complex technical concepts into clear strategies for non-technical stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Empathy & Integrity: You lead with heart, caring deeply about the growth of your technical and clinical colleagues and the well-being of the patients we serve.
• Big Tech DNA: You understand the operational rigor of world-class engineering organizations (like Microsoft, Meta, Google) and can right-size those practices for a growth-stage company.
• Product-Minded: You don't just build to spec; you will own the spec as product engineering. You understand the business context and use data to drive engineering decisions.
• Growth Mindset: You view failures as learning opportunities and foster a psychologically safe environment where innovation can thrive.

How you'll make an impact:

• Technical Strategy: Define and execute the architectural roadmap for our web and mobile platforms, transitioning to a scalable, service-oriented architecture.
• Platform Engineering: Architect the application layer that integrates our foundational services like the EHR that houses our clinical workflows with our novel services, ensuring low latency and high reliability.
• Delivery Excellence: Adopt a move fast delivery cadence to break down complex initiatives into shippable, high-value milestones.
• Team Leadership: Manage and mentor 2-3 cross-functional squads, implementing career frameworks that foster growth and retention.
• Operational Rigor: Own the live site health by establishing SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) practices, incident response protocols, and comprehensive observability standards.
• Culture Building: Build a diverse and inclusive engineering culture that attracts top talent and balances autonomy with alignment.
• Quality Assurance: Enforce rigorous CI/CD pipelines and automated testing standards to ensure safe and frequent deployments.

The basics you'll need:

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with a focus on building complex, high-scale web and mobile applications.
• 5+ years of engineering management experience, including experience managing leads or other managers (not just individual contributors).
• Full Stack Mastery: Deep expertise in modern stacks (React, Node.js, Python) and cloud-native infrastructure (GCP, CDN, IAP)
• Architectural Depth: Proven track record of designing distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Data Privacy: Experience working in regulated environments (HIPAA, Fintech) with strict security and privacy requirements.
• Remote Fluency: Ability to lead distributed teams effectively, maintaining strong communication and collaboration across time zones.

Nice to have:

• Experience as a Product / Program Manager.
• Experience with EHR integrations (FHIR standards) or healthcare interoperability.
• Background in AI/ML application engineering, specifically working with LLMs or RAG pipelines.
• Contributions to open source projects or a history of technical writing/public speaking.

Why Blackbird is unique:

• Frontier Technology: We are building an AI-native operating system for healthcare, not just another telemedicine app.
• Ownership: You will have significant autonomy to shape the technical vision and culture of the engineering organization.
• Leadership Impact: You will report directly to technology executives and be a key voice in company-wide strategic decisions.
• Flexible schedule – set your own hours 
• Supportive work culture

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage (available on day 1 of employment)
• 401k (with a company match)
• Employer-paid life insurance coverage
• Generous paid time off
• Opportunities for career growth