Key skills
Node.jsReactSignalsRuby on RailsAWSAWS LambdaDynamoDBAPI GatewayMicroservices ArchitectureAutomated TestingJestHIPAA ComplianceHITRUST ComplianceFDA Regulatory StandardsSoftware ValidationDocumentation TraceabilityRubyAIMachine LearningGenerative AIRAGRailsServerlessLambdaLeadershipCommunication
About this role
Visibly is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead their high-performance engineering team. The role involves managing a team of Senior Engineers while also contributing hands-on to the codebase and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.
Responsibilities:
- Manage, mentor, and coach a distributed team of Senior Engineers
- Build a culture of accountability via documentation, traceability, communication, and efficiency
- Conduct 1-on-1s, drive performance reviews, and support team members
- Partner with Product and Executive leadership to translate business requirements into technical roadmaps, work items, team goals, and own follow-up and success
- Inform the architecture of our microservices cloud (AWS) environment and ensure our clinical algorithms are scalable
- Spend approximately 40-50% of your time contributing to the codebase
- Lead by example, taking on complex tickets, conducting rigorous PR reviews, and jumping in on mission-critical backend and infrastructure tasks
- Act as a technical steward for HIPAA, HITRUST, and FDA regulatory standards, ensuring our engineering practices meet the highest bars for data privacy, software validation, and documentation traceability
Requirements:
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2-3 years in a formal people management or team lead role
- Deep technical expertise in Node.js and modern frontend frameworks (React/Signals)
- Comfortable navigating both a legacy Ruby on Rails monolith and modern serverless microservices
- Expert-level knowledge of AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway) and microservices architectures
- Ability to empower engineers, maximizing their effectiveness through dynamic leadership, focused on collective outcomes
- Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to engineering teams through written and verbal communication and to non-technical, strategy level stakeholders
- Deep experience with automated testing methodologies (we use Jest) and a 'test-first' mentality
- Experience working within HIPAA, HITRUST, FDA, or similar regulatory environments and an understanding of software validation and traceability
- Experience with Generative AI tools, RAG, agents, or machine learning pipelines
- Familiarity with Rails-based backends