Software Development Manager

ProMedix Health is a virtual care platform supporting patients managing chronic conditions and the clinical teams caring for them - delivering remote patient monitoring, care coordination, and telehealth on a serverless AWS infrastructure.

The Role

This role has a dual mandate: proven engineering team leadership and direct, hands-on frontend and UX engineering experience. Both are required - not one or the other.

If you've managed engineers but haven't personally built frontend interfaces, this isn't the right fit. If you're a strong frontend engineer who hasn't managed a team, same answer. We're specifically looking for candidates who have done both and will recognize themselves in that description without needing it further explained.

Why it matters here: ProMedix is a clinical platform where UX quality directly affects patient outcomes and clinician workflows. We need a manager who can hold the team accountable to engineering standards and look at a React Native screen or Angular component and immediately identify the UX problem - not just the code problem. Those two capabilities rarely come from the same person. We're looking for the exception.

Our platform spans three codebases: a Python 3 / AWS Lambda / PostgreSQL backend, an Angular 19 staff-facing web dashboard, and a patient mobile app currently migrating from Ionic 5 to React Native with Expo.

Core Responsibilities

Team & Delivery

• Directly manage front-end, mobile, and full-stack engineers: 1:1s, feedback, performance accountability, growth
• Own the full Agile sprint cycle - planning, standups, reviews, retrospectives, backlog grooming
• Surface delivery risks before they become misses; report clearly to leadership on what shipped, what slipped, and why
• Support hiring: interviews, technical assessments, offer decisions

Code Quality & Release Standards

• Define and enforce the team's definition of done - what must be true before a PR is merged
• Own release documentation as a hard delivery requirement: release notes, changelogs, API/schema changes, migration steps - not an afterthought
• Manage technical debt proactively; prevent short-term shortcuts from compounding

Quality, Security & Compliance

• Own testing strategy across all three platforms; enforce coverage as a PR gate
• Own HIPAA technical safeguard compliance at the code level: PHI encryption, audit logging, session management, access controls
• Enforce OWASP top 10 practices in development and review
• Manage dependency vulnerability scanning and CVE remediation SLAs
• Establish recurring load and stress testing before major releases

UX Engineering Oversight

• Review UI components and screens for consistency, accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA), and clinical usability - not just correctness
• Set and enforce UX standards across both platforms: validation patterns, error and loading states, navigation consistency, data visualization legibility
• Translate UX problems into clear engineering direction; bring engineering constraints into design conversations

• Direct experience managing software engineers - 1:1s, performance, accountability (not just project leadership)
• Hands-on frontend or UX engineering experience - you've personally built UI components and screens
• Technical depth sufficient to review PRs meaningfully and evaluate architectural trade-offs
• Comfort reading Python and TypeScript/JavaScript
• Working knowledge of HIPAA technical safeguards at the implementation level
• Experience establishing or significantly improving a team's testing culture
• Accessibility experience at the implementation level - WCAG 2.1 AA as an engineering standard
• Clear communication across technical and non-technical audiences, including difficult conversations about performance or missed commitments

Useful but not required:

• Healthcare or HIPAA-regulated environment experience
• React Native / Expo or Angular hands-on experience
• BDD specification experience (Behave/Gherkin)
• Prior security audit, SOC 2, or HIPAA risk assessment involvement

• You've done both sides of this role and consider both part of your professional identity
• A broken sprint cycle bothers you as much as a broken build
• You believe undocumented code is unfinished code - and hold that standard on every release
• You can sit with a clinical operations director, understand what they actually need, and return with a plan your engineers can execute
• You're energized by shipping software that clinicians and patients can rely on

A Note to Applicants

To confirm you've read this posting carefully: include the phrase "dual mandate" somewhere in your cover letter or application message. It's a simple signal that you read the full posting - not a trick.

We're also genuinely interested in one specific situation (2-3 sentences): describe a moment where your engineering background directly influenced a UX or product decision, or vice versa. If you don't have a specific one, just say so - a generic answer is easy to spot and won't help your application.

Compensation & Benefits

• $130,000 - $165,000 annually (California Pay Transparency Act, SB 1162)
• Performance-based bonus
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with employer contribution
• Clear advancement opportunity - we promote from within