Position: Director of Engineering in a US Behavioral Health Company
Company: Integrated Behavioral Health
Experience required: 5y
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Published: 2021-09-01T00:00:00+03:00

**Help build technology that saves lives!
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Uprise Health is a private equity-backed family of companies headquartered in Irvine, California. We provide comprehensive management of mental/behavioral health, wellness, and chronic care and offer employee assistance programs (EAP). 

**We help people** 

Retain and improve their mental health.
Take care of their families, pets, legal and financial issues, etc.

**Unique opportunity** 

- We are pushing to become a technology-first company focused on digital health, data engineering, clinical data science, and AI to define the state of the art in mental/behavioral health. 
- We build our own products for our end-users, patients, and clinicians.
- We are riding a huge demand boost wave for mental health.
You get to shape our vision and build new things (no tedious support/legacy projects)

**Stability**: headquartered in Irvine, California, we have been around for 33 years and are highly profitable. Our benefits are offered to 10M lives across the US through our network of 60K medical professionals.

Our current product suite includes a patient mobile/web app (uprise.co) connecting patients with much-needed help, a clinical assessment solution, and a data platform. 

**We are looking for a Director of Engineering** who will manage the Uprise team of 20 engineers and help turn Uprise into a groundbreaking digital mental health and chronic care management product. We are launching the v1 of a completely revamped product before the end of the year.

**You will:**

- Support and grow the existing team of 20 engineers and line managers.
- Uphold and further our culture of ownership, accountability, opportunity, and inclusion
- Manage, grow, and mentor line managers and technical leaders
- Be responsible for the overall planning, scope management, and execution and own SDLC.
- Establish a deep understanding of the domain, product, and customers and collaborate effectively with product and customer-facing parts of the company.
- Be a bar raiser for the entire organization.

**You have:**

- Many years of coding in a team environment shipping production code
- Solid engineering leadership experience including prior experience of managing people
- Strong record of multiple product launches, preferably through several major versions
- Strong practical knowledge of distributed system architecture
- Some experience with our tech stack of React, React Native, Python, Postgres, and AWS
- Deep curiosity to understand how things work in order to own and solve problems
- Most importantly, you are self-driven, well organized, curious, tenacious, and communicate effectively. You ask a lot of questions, dig deep, and come up with creative reliable solutions and execute repeatably with a great sense of ownership and accountability.

**Our technology stack:**

Backend: Python 3.9, Postgres, DynamoDB, Django 3.2
Frontend: Typescript, React (web), React Native (mobile)
API: GraphQL
Infra: AWS, Lambda, Fargate, CDK
Data: AWS Glue, S3, Athena, QuickSight, Airflow
CICD: Github Actions
Monitoring: Sentry
QA automation: TestRail, Cypress
Other: Github, Jira, Slack, Figma