Software Engineering Manager, 1upHealth
Offers equity
Health data & interoperability solutions
Open for applications
Health data & interoperability solutions
101-200 employees
Open for applications
Offers equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To redefine interoperability and solve healthcare's toughest data challenges.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of engineering management experience in cloud-native, data-intensive, or SaaS environments
- Experience leading exceptional engineers and teams in early-to-mid-stage startups
- Hands-on background as a software engineer or technical lead, with the ability to contribute to technical discussions and trade-offs
- Strong familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure and infrastructure as code (e.g., AWS, serverless, containers, IaC frameworks)
- Experience leading teams building platform services, data ingestion systems, or large-scale data processing pipelines
- Demonstrated ability to enforce secure SDLC and DevSecOps best practices
- Excellent communication skills and cross-functional collaboration abilities
- Experience working in a remote-first environment and distributed teams
- We encourage folks to apply if they meet at least 50% of the qualifications above
Desirable
- Experience with healthcare data standards (e.g., FHIR, HL7) or compliance frameworks (e.g., HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC2)
- Experience working on products with compliance requirements, ideally for CMS/HHS or other governmental agencies
- Familiarity with data engineering technologies (e.g., Spark, data lake/lakehouse architectures, workflow orchestration)
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager with experience in scaling startups to lead highly skilled and driven development teams to deliver on product and platform excellence
- In this role, you will drive people leadership, delivery excellence, and technical strategy alongside Tech Leads, Product partners, and cross-functional teams
- You will ensure execution of our product roadmaps, and balance that with technical debt cleanup
- Lead, mentor, and develop engineers through regular 1:1s, coaching, performance reviews and performance management
- Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performance engineering culture
- Hire, onboard, and retain exceptional engineering talent
- Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to build clear, achievable roadmaps and OKRs, and deliver with predictability
- Lead and propose ways to continuously improve our Agile practices and delivery processes across the team
- Track and improve engineering metrics such as code quality, and technical debt
- Promote strong SDLC practices, including testing, CI/CD, security scanning, and operational readiness
- Provide technical direction and participate in architectural decision-making for product and platform
- Collaborate with Tech Leads to design systems that scale with high-volume healthcare data workloads
- Champion reliability, observability, security, and cost-efficient architecture across services and products
- Ensure alignment with compliance, privacy, and secure development standards
- Work closely with Product, Compliance, Operations, and internal engineering teams to understand requirements and define priorities
- Communicate effectively with both technical contributors and senior leadership
- Help integrate platform roadmaps and technical strategies with company-wide initiatives
Our take
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is a global standard designed to improve how healthcare data is shared electronically. It is being adopted by major organizations across the US, including government bodies, to allow more seamless data exchange. 1upHealth is a health-tech company supporting this transition by helping organizations convert data into FHIR format and allowing secure data sharing and analytics.
Regulatory pressure has played a key role in accelerating FHIR adoption, particularly in the US where providers are required to make certain health data accessible through standardized APIs. This shift creates strong tailwind for companies like 1upHealth, which provides the infrastructure needed to meet these requirements. While the space is becoming more active, there remains significant opportunity for platforms that simplify adoption and unlock the value of interoperable data.
The market for healthcare interoperability is still evolving, and 1upHealth is positioned to grow alongside it. Founded in 2017, the company has gained recognition for its progress, including being named among the fastest-growing technology companies in North America by Deloitte. As demand for connected, data-driven healthcare continues to rise, it remains a company to watch in this developing space.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
35% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2023
$40m
SERIES C
Apr 2021
$25m
SERIES B
Total funding: $76.1m
Company benefits
- Remote first culture: work from anywhere in the US, our Boston headquarters, or a combination of both.
- Flexible PTO: Take what you need PTO policy.
- Medical, dental & vision: 100% of employee premiums paid by 1upHealth.
- Paid leave: All parents receive 6 weeks of fully paid parental leave. Birthing parents receive an additional 10 weeks of fully paid leave, plus 4 weeks of phased return-to-work support.
- Wellness benefit: Get reimbursed for up to $1,400 annually for expenses that contribute to your total wellbeing
- Lifestyle spending account: Get reimbursed up to $1,500 annually for expenses that contribute to your total wellbeing.
- Anniversary bonus: At your 2 year anniversary receive $2,000, at your 5 year anniversary $5,000 towards a vacation of your choice.
- Home office stipend: $400 to all new employees to elevate your home office.
Company HQ
Fenway–Kenmore, Boston, MA
Leadership
Andrew Boyd
(CEO)Joined 1upHealth in 2024 as CEO. Prior, they were the EVP and General Manager of Personify Health, the EVp of Strategy and Corporate Development at Virgin Pulse, and the Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Dimensional Insight.
Nolan Kelly
(CCO/CRO)Initially joined 1upHealth in 2020 as VP of Sales before becoming CCO/CRO in 2022. Prior to this, they were a Senior Director of Health Systems and Advisory Board Member at PatientPing, VP of Business Development at Linkwell health, and Director of Diversified business Development at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts.
Mark Wolf
(CFO)Mark joined 1upHealth in 2020 as CFO. Alongside this they are the CFO Advisor at Snorkel AI and Percepto, as well as the CFO at IdeaScale. Previously, they were the CFO Advisor at Courier, Ironclad, and Mux.
Donald Rucker
(CSO)Joined 1upHalth in 2021 as CSO. They have also served as an Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine at Ohio State University since 2013. Previously, they were the National Coordinator at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health information Technology. They were also CMO at Premise Health and Vice President and CMO at Siemens Healthcare USA.
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