Mobile Engineering Manager

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Blink Health is a well-funded healthcare technology company on a mission to make prescription drugs more accessible and affordable for everyone. We're scaling up in a highly complex vertical to change the way Americans access the prescription drugs they need.

Our proprietary platform and supply chain allows us to offer everyone — whether they have insurance or not — amazingly inexpensive prices on over 15,000 medications. With the addition of telemedicine and home delivery for prescriptions, Blink is providing a life-changing experience for people all over the country and fixing how opaque, unfair and overpriced healthcare has become. We are a highly collaborative team of builders and operators who invent new ways of working in an industry that historically has resisted innovation. Join us!

Success:

An Engineering Manager at Blink Health will be the people and technical manager of a team of between 4-6 experienced software engineers and have a wide range of important responsibilities. This person will make sure his/her employees are continuously motivated, are aware of their roles and responsibilities and know what is happening across all organizations of the business. The technical responsibilities for the team are numerous but are highlighted by:

  • Perform peer code and architecture reviews
  • Participate in on-call rotation and improve our run-books
  • Work closely with their Product Manager and Designer counterparts in order to smoothly execute the holistic business and product direction of the company.
  • Collaborate with your team to architect and document new systems
  • Be the point person on the team to run all major architectural decisions
  • Be a technical mentor to all team members, and contributing code the Blink software foundation.
  • Engineering managers also participate and are expected to be leaders in cross functional engineering initiatives such as how to enable Blink to scale to millions of customers.

How to achieve success/acumen:

You are an engineering manager who, above all, is excited to build products that give our customers the best possible experience purchasing prescription medications. You have professional experience working on a team turning ideas into reliable, maintainable code.

  • Managed career development
  • Managed timelines
  • Allocated Engineering resources
  • Managed code reviews and career development
  • Built web applications professionally
  • Want to work in a highly collaborative environment: we believe a team can be stronger than its individual parts
  • Are independent and curious
  • Are comfortable owning features from design through delivery to production
  • Have experience with one or more modern programming languages
  • Are willing to dive into a large code base and contribute immediately
  • Enjoy writing code that is understandable, maintainable, and testable
  • Can communicate effectively with other engineers, designers, product managers, and anyone else at Blink
  • Are excited to both design scalable APIs and elegant front-end code

Good Execution - Do your best work

  • Design new APIs to power new features
  • Fix performance problems and debug production issues
  • Perform peer code and architecture reviews
  • Build new features, write unit tests, and lead the release of these features to production.
  • Develop and AB test new ReactJS components to improve our user experience

Good Owner - Be the CEO of your role 

  • Help the team ship new products and features successfully with the right skills, mentorship and organizational resources to deliver amazing experiences for our patients
  • Coach, mentor and develop engineers to reach individual goals while fostering cross-functional collaboration and product success 
  • Take responsibility for the long term success of product projects and people 

Good Learning - Learn something new every day 

  • Demonstrate curiosity and an interest in learning new techniques and improving upon best practices to stay up-to-date with current and emerging trends
  • Lead by example putting new ideas into action, failing fast and learning from each experience

Good Feedback - Consider the perspective of others 

  • Listen actively and respond effectively through a variety of channels
  • Give and receive candid and constructive feedback
  • Promote trust and encourage teamwork allow the product team to do their best work

Desired experience:

  • Have built consumer and platform based applications professionally
  • 5+ years in a software engineering role building consumer facing products
  • Want to work in a highly collaborative environment: we believe a team can be stronger than its individual parts
  • You have a lot of experience with Python, ReactJS, or even better, both
  • You have experience building polished, consumer-grade websites
  • Are independent and curious
  • Are comfortable owning features from design through delivery to production
  • Have experience with one or more modern programming languages
  • Are willing to dive into a large code base and contribute immediately
  • Enjoy writing code that is understandable, maintainable, and testable
  • Can communicate effectively with other engineers, designers, product managers, and anyone else at Blink
  • Are excited to both design scalable APIs and elegant front-end code
  • Collaborative and Communicative - you love being part of a diverse team, building consensus, and establishing credibility. You are a Class-A communicator: curious, thoughtful, clear, and (mostly) correct.
  • Technical - an engineering background/skills are highly preferred for Product roles at Blink.
  • BA/BS degree from top institution; MBA or CompSci degree preferred but not required.

Why Join Us:

At Blink, we put humans first. We want everyone at Blink to be able to do the best work of their lives. We are a relentlessly learning, constantly curious and aggressively collaborative cross-functional team dedicated to inventing new ways to improve the lives of our customers.

Learn more:
Blink Website
Blink Pharmacy App for Android
Blink Pharmacy App for iOS

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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