Engineering Manager

About Hint Health

Hint Health is the leading digital health company dedicated to supporting the growth and success of the Direct Primary Care (DPC) movement. With a mission to power direct care and make it the new standard, the HintOS platform supports thousands of clinics and networks across the nation providing care for over a million members. Hint also produces Hint Summit, the leading DPC innovation conference and supports Hint Connect, a curated national network of independent DPC clinics. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. To learn more visit www.hint.com/company.

We’re seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead one of the Clinical Engineering teams responsible for building and scaling our Clinical EMR workflows. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys managing, coaching, and developing engineers, while also contributing directly to code in a focused, pragmatic way.

You’ll work alongside a tech lead and engineers, supporting them in decision-making and creating an environment where the team can do its best work. You will write code regularly, contribute to features, pair with engineers, review work, and help unblock technical challenges. You’ll collaborate closely with the Director of Engineering, Product, Design, and cross-functional partners to ensure consistent delivery, maintain system quality, and accelerate progress in a fast-moving product development environment.

This is a remote position, candidates must reside in and be legally eligible to work in Uruguay, Mexico, or Costa Rica.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership & People Development

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• Manage, coach, and mentor a team of 4 to 5 engineers
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• Drive career development, performance management, and professional growth
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• Foster a healthy, collaborative engineering culture
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• Build clarity and focus around team goals, ensuring engineers are working on the highest-impact priorities

Cross-Functional Collaboration

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• Align engineering work with business goals and clinical user needs
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• Communicate clearly across engineering, product, and design teams, providing transparency and managing expectations
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• Advocate for the engineering team while also holding the team accountable to high standards

Execution & Delivery

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• Ensure predictable, high-quality delivery of Clinical EMR features and improvements
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• Partner closely with Product and Design to clarify requirements, shape scope, and prioritize effectively
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• Improve execution via a flexible “Scrumban”-style approach to planning and workflow
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• Balance short-term delivery with long-term technical sustainability and system health

Technical Direction & System Stewardship

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• Collaborate with tech leads to guide architecture, technical choices, and long-term system evolution
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• Ensure thoughtful handling of technical debt and quality investments
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• Coordinate with external vendors and internal teams on integrations, system resilience, and performance

Hands-On Engineering (Contributor, Not “Top Expert”)

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• Contribute code regularly including feature work, bug fixes, small refactors, and technical improvements
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• Participate in architecture discussions and provide input, while relying on your team’s tech lead as a primary driver
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• Model strong engineering habits: readable code, helpful reviews, pragmatic tradeoffs
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• Triage issues, support debugging, unblock issues, and step in tactically when the team needs help

What you bring

Leadership & Management

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• 3+ years managing engineering teams or leading engineers as a tech lead/manager hybrid
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• Demonstrated success developing engineers and building healthy team culture
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• Strong communication, prioritization, and decision-making skills
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• Ability to drive clarity in ambiguous situations and keep teams focused on impactful outcomes

Technical Background

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• 8+ years of engineering experience with solid hands-on skills in modern web development (JavaScript, TypeScript, React, or similar)
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• Comfortable contributing code weekly, not as a full-time IC, but as a dependable supporting contributor
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• Strong enough technically to review PRs, pair frequently, unblock issues, and support architectural discussions
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• Experience working with cloud-based, scalable systems; AWS preferred

Ways of Working

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• Experienced in fast-paced startup environments with iterative product delivery
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• Capable of balancing execution velocity with engineering quality and team health
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• Comfortable adapting processes to what works rather than following rigid frameworks