Team Lead, Support Engineer (Texas)

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24 Jul 2026
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Senior
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About Heidi Health

On a mission to double the world's healthcare capacity by returning joy to clinicians through AI-powered medical scribing.

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AI Summary

Heidi is building an AI Care Partner for clinicians, aiming to double healthcare capacity. We are seeking a Support Engineering Team Lead to drive technical troubleshooting and process improvements. This role involves leading a team of support engineers, handling complex escalations, and collaborating with Product and Engineering. The ideal candidate has strong technical skills, leadership experience, and a systems-thinking mindset. This is a high-agency, player-coach role focused on resolving customer issues and improving product reliability.

Role DNA

Job Complexity
Easy Hard
Pace & Pressure
Relaxed Fast-paced
Autonomy Level
Guided Full Ownership
Communication Load
Independent Highly Collaborative
AI Insight The role requires both deep technical expertise to root-cause complex issues across the stack and strong leadership to coach a team and drive systemic improvements, making it highly challenging.

Salary Analysis

Median Market Rate
$135,000
US Market
$100k – 180k
0 $198k
AI Insight The salary information is not provided in the listing. Based on US market data for a Support Engineering Team Lead in Texas, the estimated median salary is $135,000, which aligns with the expected compensation for such a role requiring both technical and leadership skills.

Key Skills

Team Leadership Technical Troubleshooting Incident Management Root Cause Analysis Observability (Datadog) Application Support Cross-functional Collaboration Process Improvement Mentoring Escalation Management

I am writing to express my enthusiasm for the Team Lead, Support Engineer position at Heidi. With a strong background in technical troubleshooting and team leadership, I am excited about the opportunity to drive the resolution of complex customer issues while coaching a talented team.

In my previous role as a Senior Support Engineer, I led a team in triaging and resolving critical escalations, reducing response times by 30% through improved runbooks and automation. I thrive in high-agility environments and am passionate about turning customer feedback into product improvements.

Heidi's mission to double healthcare capacity through AI deeply resonates with me. I am eager to bring my technical expertise, leadership skills, and systems thinking to help scale your support operations and ensure clinicians can focus on patient care.

Thank you for considering my application. I look forward to the possibility of contributing to Heidi's growth and success.

Describe a time you had to lead a team through a complex technical escalation. How did you coordinate and what was the outcome?
In my previous role, we had a critical outage affecting multiple customers. I took charge, assembled a team of engineers, and used Datadog to trace the issue to a database query bottleneck. I communicated updates to stakeholders and delegated tasks. We resolved it in 2 hours, and I later implemented a runbook for similar issues, reducing future resolution time by 40%.
How do you balance coaching your team members with handling technical work yourself?
I allocate time for both. I set aside blocks for deep technical investigation, but I prioritize coaching by doing pair debugging on complex issues and reviewing investigation reports. I also hold weekly 1:1s to discuss growth areas and ensure team members can handle increasingly difficult problems, which ultimately frees up my time for strategic improvements.
What strategies do you use to turn recurring customer issues into product improvements?
I track common patterns via ticket categorization and root cause analysis. I work with Product to prioritize fixes and create internal tooling to automate resolutions. For example, I identified a recurring authentication error and worked with Engineering to add better error messages, which reduced related tickets by 50%.
How do you ensure your team maintains high quality in investigations and communication with customers?
I established a standard investigation template that includes steps and expected outputs. I also do random audits and give feedback. For communication, I emphasize clear, empathetic language and set expectations for response times. We have a peer review process for escalated cases to ensure consistency.
This role requires working across different teams (Customer Support, Product, Engineering). How do you handle conflicting priorities?
I facilitate regular syncs to align on impact and urgency. I use a shared priority framework and escalate when necessary. For example, when Support wanted an immediate fix but Engineering was working on a feature, I negotiated a temporary workaround and scheduled the proper fix for the next sprint, ensuring both parties were satisfied.

We’re Heidi.

We’re building the future of healthcare by giving every clinician the earth’s finest AI Care Partner. In just 18 months, our AI products (Scribe, Comms, Evidence, Remote) have absorbed the administrative chaos of 73 million patient visits. Today, we support over 2.5 million patient sessions a week across 190+ countries.

Healthcare systems are failing us; clinicians spend more time on documentation than on patients, and the human connection that makes medicine worth practicing is eroding. Our mission is simple: double the world’s healthcare capacity and strengthen the human connection at its heart.

We found product-market fit with a freemium medical scribe that clinicians love. Now, we’re expanding. Every task a clinician hands to Heidi is a patient who feels more attended to, a health system unclogged, and a clinician who gets to be a clinician again.

If you want to build something way bigger than yourself, jump in.

The Role

We’re looking for a Support Engineering Team Lead to drive the engineers at the sharp end of customer problems — the team that investigates, triages, and resolves the hardest technical issues customers hit, and turns those signals into lasting product and tooling improvements.

This is a high-agency, player-coach role designed for someone who:

  • Is technical enough to dive into logs, traces, and code to root-cause a gnarly customer issue — and leads by example doing it

  • Gets energy from growing people: coaching engineers, raising the bar on investigation quality, and building durable team rituals

  • Thinks in systems: replaces recurring toil with tooling, runbooks, and automation rather than re-solving the same ticket

  • Owns outcomes end-to-end: queue health, turnaround time, escalation quality, and the feedback loop back into Product and Engineering

You’ll lead the Support Engineering team and partner closely with Customer Support, Customer Success, Product, and core Engineering to resolve issues fast and make Heidi more reliable at scale.

What you’ll do

Lead and grow the team

  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of support engineers; set a high standard for investigation rigour and customer communication.

  • Run the team’s operating rhythm: queue triage, standups, case reviews, escalations and 1:1s.

  • Recruit, onboard, and ramp new support engineers as the function scales across regions.

  • Provide on-the-spot coaching during live incidents and complex escalations.

Own support engineering operations

  • Own queue health and SLAs across L2 support; ensure timely, high-quality resolution of customer-reported issues.

  • Track and report key metrics (response/resolution times, escalation and reopen rates, root-cause categories) and turn them into action.

  • Handle the most complex or sensitive technical escalations personally.

  • Triage customer reports into well-scoped tickets with clear reproduction steps, evidence, and impact for core Engineering.

Investigate and resolve hard technical issues

  • Root-cause customer issues across the stack using logs, traces, and observability (e.g. Datadog), session data, and the codebase.

  • Ship pragmatic data fixes and tightly-scoped code fixes where appropriate, and partner with Engineering to land deeper fixes.

  • Use and extend internal tooling to resolve issues safely at scale via permissioned access to internal data and actions.

Turn signal into durable improvement

  • Spot recurring issues and product pain points; codify “tribal knowledge” into runbooks, checks, and self-serve internal interfaces.

  • Drive systemic fixes — feed clear, prioritised signals into Product and Engineering and follow them through to resolution.

  • Maintain and improve internal and customer-facing support content based on real ticket trends.

What You’ll Need

  • Strong technical troubleshooting ability: comfortable reading logs/traces, querying data, and navigating a production codebase to root-cause issues.

  • Experience leading or mentoring engineers — formal management or strong tech-lead / player-coach experience.

  • Excellent written communication — you can translate messy customer problems into clear technical narratives for engineers and clear updates for stakeholders.

  • High ownership: you define success, drive queue and quality outcomes, and deliver without heavy direction.

  • Pragmatic approach to reliability and safety, especially when actions can affect customers or clinical workflows.

Great-to-haves

  • Experience in a support engineering / L2–L3 / SRE-adjacent function at a SaaS or HealthTech company.

  • Familiarity with observability tooling (Datadog), issue trackers (Linear), and support platforms (Intercom).

  • Experience building or operating internal admin tooling and LLM/agent-enabled workflows (permissioning, guardrails, evaluation).

  • Bachelor’s in Engineering, Computer Science, Maths, or a related field (advantageous, not required).

How we show up

  • Build for the next decade, not next quarter. Our targets are outrageous on purpose. The world’s health doesn’t have the luxury of incrementalism.

  • Lead, don’t wait. We treat tomorrow’s problems today. Sometimes we build what’s needed before it’s wanted, and we’re fine with that.

  • Follow the evidence. Trust the patient. We pursue truth relentlessly. But when the subjective and objective disagree, we treat the patient, not the numbers. Ego is a comorbidity we can’t afford.

  • Own the outcome. Everyone here carries the company. Raise problems with solutions, solve them end-to-end, and never be a bystander.

  • Ship, measure, go again. A button today, a workflow tomorrow. More iterations beat better planning. We’re precise at pace, not reckless.

  • Live in clinicians’ reality. Not the ideal workflow, the twenty-patients-before-lunch actual one. We build for exhausted humans, and we’d better be decent ones while we do it.

Why Heidi?

You’ll join a team focused on real-world impact over imaginary valuations and glossy PR. We live and breathe the challenges of modern health systems, and are laser-focused on exacting the change we’d like to see. We’re medicos, engineers, builders, and designers who’ve felt (on every side of the equation) what non-care feels like—the moral and practical toll as a provider or receiver.

Building what we’re building isn’t always easy. But we didn’t choose easy, we chose to build something that actually matters. We hold ourselves to a higher standard because healthcare demands it. If you join Heidi, you recognise that the deeper question isn’t whether AI can solve the global healthcare crisis, but whose hands will shape it. The work is hard, but you will trust and admire the people you work beside, and rest easy knowing you’re doing the defining work of your career.

True A-players progress extremely fast here. The nature of the scale-up game is

demanding, but we value sustainable performance and mental health. You’re

trusted to perform, and you set your schedule. We operate on outcomes > inputs,

not process theatre. We all take the bins out, metaphorically and literally.

We take care of you.

We offer healthcare, dental and vision benefits, a 401k with 3% company match, a $700 annual learning and development budget, a $100/month health and wellness allowance, a $500 home office budget, 26 weeks paid primary parental leave and 18 weeks paid secondary parental leave, fertility support up to $7,000, four weeks of work from anywhere per year, and serious equity.

We chose to open-source our benefits hub, if you care to take a peek.

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