Head of Engineering, Internal Application and Tools

Job Title: Head of Engineering, Internal Applications and Tools

Department: Product Development & Delivery

About the Role:

As the Head of Engineering for Internal Applications and Tools, you will lead engineering teams responsible for building and evolving Unite Us’ internal developer platform. This includes identity and access management, auditing and compliance, interoperability services, and front-end development frameworks. You’ll act as both a technical leader and product owner, prioritizing the needs of internal development teams as your primary customers.This role requires an enterprise mindset, a deep understanding of platform engineering, and the ability to lead through influence and collaboration. You will define strategy, ensure secure and scalable architecture, and foster a high-performing culture that empowers engineering teams to work more efficiently and securely.

What You’ll Do:

Strategic and Technical Leadership

• Define and execute the strategy for the Internal Developer Platform, aligning with business priorities, regulatory requirements, and developer needs.
• Lead architectural planning and guide adoption of secure, scalable platform solutions that enable efficient front-end and back-end development.
• Ensure systems are compliant with industry standards (e.g., HIPAA, HITECH) and evolving interoperability protocols (FHIR, HL7, OAuth 2.0).
• Oversee the improvement and maintenance of React-based frameworks that enable fast, consistent, and compliant front-end development.

Team Leadership and Talent Development

• Lead and develop a high-performing group of engineering managers and their teams, upholding a high bar for performance and accountability.
• Cultivate a strong team culture that emphasizes continuous improvement, simplicity, and thoughtful technical decision-making.
• Hire, retain, and mentor top engineering talent to support and maintain delivery excellence.

Product Ownership and Customer-Centered Platform Focus

• Act as the product owner for internal platform features, gathering feedback, prioritizing improvements, and advocating for the developer experience.
• Drive the delivery of developer-friendly tools and frameworks that accelerate product development and reduce complexity.
• Instill a product mindset in the platform team by delivering intuitive, well-documented, and reusable solutions.

Cross-Functional Collaboration and Influence

• Partner with Product, Security, Compliance, and Engineering teams to align platform capabilities with cross-functional priorities.
• Promote and model modern engineering and DevOps practices, ensuring teams adopt automation, CI/CD, observability, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Influence technical decisions and ensure architectural alignment across product lines and business functions.

You’re a great fit for this role if:

• 10+ years of  progressive engineering experience leading multi-team initiatives
• 5+ years of experience building and managing high-performing teams with a track record of consistently delivering and meeting roadmap commitments
• With at least 2+ years in the healthcare, digital health or health technology sectors, using Agile delivery methodologies
• Experience building complex software products within healthcare, payments and/or government settings, with demonstrable success.
• Experience working on technical projects with dependencies across multiple domains, teams and technologies
• The ability to dynamically respond to shifts in priorities, resolving contention and solving problems across teams
• Comfortable designing, building, and maintaining large scale systems
• Expertise in a high-level programming language (JavaScript, Ruby, Golang, etc.)
• Experience in web development (React (or another JS framework), CSS3, HTML5)
• Experience with AWS technologies

Our Mission:

Unite Us’ mission is to unlock the potential of every community. Our co-founders started Unite Us in 2013 to serve the people they served with. They witnessed firsthand the barriers and inefficiencies in trying to navigate health and social services, and set out to improve that experience for veterans and their families. Unite Us quickly expanded to serving all people who need connections to care across our country. Through Unite Us’ national network and software, community-based organizations, government agencies, and healthcare organizations are all connected to better collaborate to meet the needs of the individuals in their communities. We drive the collaboration to predict, deliver, and pay for services that impact whole-person health. If you want to do well and do good, join Unite Us.

Environmental Job Requirements and Working Conditions:

• This position is remote, U.S. based. Strong preference for candidates comfortable working in ET/CT time zones
• This position may require 5-10% travel
• The target pay range for this role is: $200,000-$215,000.  This salary range represents our target hiring range for this role. The proposed salary will be dependent on the candidate’s skills, experience, and competencies, as well as location.
• All team members will be required to pass a background check which includes criminal, employment, and education verification

Benefits provided by Unite Us:

Medical, Dental, and Vision

We offer insurance to team members and eligible partners and dependents, including unlimited virtual mental health and acute medical visits.

Wellness

Mental health benefits, such as the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and wellness platform subscription, are available to all team members.

Flexible Time Off

Take what you need, including volunteer days and mental health days. We also offer 14 paid, company-wide holidays.

Paid Parental Leave

Adoptive parents are included.

Employee Resource Groups

Choose to join any of our ERGs, which celebrate and support a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Spending Accounts

We offer tax-advantaged health savings accounts (HSAs), flexible spending accounts (FSAs), and commuter benefits.

401(k) + Employer Match

Enjoy matching, immediate vesting and financial wellness resources

Additional Benefits

Life and AD&D – a company paid benefit, with the option to purchase additional coverage for yourself and your dependents

Disability Coverage

Accident Insurance

Pet Insurance

As part of this work at home job, we will provide you with all the necessary equipment to perform your duties, including a computer, mouse, keyboard as well as other items on our approved list of WFH supplies.

Unite Us is committed to building a diverse team and fostering an inclusive culture, and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in race, religion, color, national origin, gender, family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability, pregnancy, medical conditions, and other characteristics. If you require assistance in applying for open positions due to a disability please email us at [email protected] to request an accommodation.

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