Director of Engineering

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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Pennant

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2016

🏥 Healthcare

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🧘 Wellness

Healthcare • Healthcare Insurance • Wellness

Pennant is a company dedicated to providing healthcare services, with a focus on life-changing service, culture, and leadership. They support independent operating subsidiaries that offer home health care, hospice, assisted living, independent living, and memory care. Their mission is to empower local leaders with resources and tools to deliver high-quality care. Pennant operates 103 home health and hospice agencies and 51 senior living communities across several U. S. states, including Arizona, California, and Texas. They emphasize a strong company culture guided by core values that prioritize customer service, accountability, and intelligent risk-taking.

📋 Description

• Lead the Application Development team building products for post-acute businesses including home health, hospice, home care, and senior living • Own the technical direction of all digital products, including service boundaries, data model, integration patterns, and platform roadmap • Support build, buy, and defer decisions and document technical tradeoffs and reversal costs • Set and enforce HIPAA-grade engineering standards for PHI handling, audit logging, least-privilege access, and environment promotion • Maintain platform operability through observability, on-call, incident response, and cost management • Make AI coding agents the default for design, implementation, testing, and review • Build evaluation suites, automated test generation, CI gates, and review standards for trustworthy agent output • Measure delivery metrics such as cycle time, change failure rate, field defects, and cost per release • Partner with Data Science on safely shipping predictive models and LLM features into clinical workflows • Lead, mentor, and develop the engineering team through 1:1s, expectations, performance reviews, career paths, and performance management • Recruit, hire, and retain engineers; own the interview loop • Improve output per engineer through tooling and automation before increasing headcount • Represent Application Development with clinical, operations, finance, and IT leaders • Translate business priorities into engineering plans and engineering constraints into business terms • Partner with Product Management, Data, Infrastructure, and other teams on Digital product success • Participate in pilot and rollout conversations with field agencies and operational partners • Partner with IT on shared environments, security review, identity, and application-platform boundaries • Contribute to technical strategy and investment cases, including measuring the team's impact on Pennant outcomes

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience • 3+ years leading engineers as a people manager, including 1:1s, performance reviews, hiring, and difficult staffing decisions • Led engineering at a startup or growth-stage company through adoption of AI-assisted development, with measurable before-and-after results • Personally built and shipped production software with AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or equivalent within the past 6 months • Designed and operated a multi-service, cloud-hosted system with a production data layer and third-party integrations • Established a quality system including CI/CD, automated testing, code review standards, and incident response • Experience working under HIPAA, SOC 2, or comparable controls, or a credible plan for standing up PHI handling, audit logging, and access control • Strong written and verbal communication, with ability to explain technical tradeoffs to clinical, operational, and finance leaders • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • Healthcare operations or EHR integration experience (preferred) • Experience building or running an AI harness layer (preferred) • Experience shipping LLM-backed features to end users and evaluating them for accuracy and safety in production (preferred) • Experience migrating a product off a low-code or rapid-prototyping platform (preferred) • Experience with Go, TypeScript / SvelteKit, Kubernetes (AKS), Snowflake, Temporal, Azure, and Microsoft Entra ID (preferred) • Experience working alongside data scientists and data engineers on a shared platform (preferred) • Experience inside a larger company's internal product group after time at a startup (preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Eligible for annual bonus • Equity • Remote work arrangement • Approximately 10–15% travel, including periodic visits to Service Centers and field operations

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