Product Engineering Lead, Sage
New Market
$200-250k
+ Stock options
3-5 days a week in office
Modern operating system for senior care
Job no longer available
Modern operating system for senior care
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$200-250k
+ Stock options
3-5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
Sage's mission is to improve the care and quality of life for caregivers and older adults.
Role
Who you are
- 5-7+ years of software engineering experience, including experience shipping early-stage products and/or working in startup environments
- Proven success leading technical projects end-to-end, ideally in a 0→1 context
- Comfort working across the stack and diving into whatever needs attention
- Excellent product judgment and an iterative mindset, you know when to be scrappy and when to invest
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially in cross-functional settings
- Prior experience mentoring or managing engineers
- A growth mindset and a high degree of ownership—you’re someone who takes initiative and figures things out
Desirable
- Founding or early engineering experience at a high-growth startup (YC or equivalent is a plus)
- Experience building and maintaining full-stack applications, with comfort navigating both frontend and backend systems to ship end-to-end features
- Experience working in healthcare or building for older adults (not required, but nice to have)
What the job involves
- As our first Product Engineering Lead focused on the New Market product experience, you’ll play a critical role in helping Sage expand our impact beyond senior living communities. You’ll have the opportunity to shape a new product from day one, collaborate closely with a small, talented team, and lay the groundwork for something that has the potential to help thousands of families
- Build and lead the technical foundation of our New Market product by taking the MVP from concept to launch, setting direction, and navigating ambiguity with confidence and care
- Own technical decision-making in a fast-moving environment by identifying when to invest, when to cut corners, and how to build scrappy, scalable systems that evolve with the product
- Contribute hands-on across the stack by writing clean, production-ready code and guiding architectural choices that balance speed, impact, and future needs
- Drive product outcomes through close collaboration with product and design, translating real user needs into elegant, intuitive solutions
- Lead by example and elevate engineering practices by fostering a culture of clarity, ownership, and continuous improvement through code reviews, testing, and thoughtful documentation
- Mentor and manage an engineer by offering support, coaching, and technical guidance in a dynamic and high-trust environment
- Bring structure to the unknown by breaking down complex, open-ended problems into practical next steps—and keeping momentum even when the path isn’t fully defined
- Shape the culture of a new team by showing up with humility, curiosity, and a willingness to experiment, adapt, and learn alongside your teammates
Our take
In the event of an accident or fall, elder care facilities largely rely on outdated nurse call systems, which can mean residents wait longer than necessary to receive care or attention. Sage solves this problem by providing carers and institutions with a modern operating system.
Sage's caregiver app allows carers to identify patients in need of help, as well as providing tools for triage and the reviewing of care information. As one of the first companies to bring a data-driven approach to elder care in this way, Sage has received strong attention and raised an impressive $35 million in funding in 2024.
The age-tech market is growing steadily, and becoming more competitive, which means Sage will need to invest heavily in scaling its outreach in order to consolidate its progress. That said, it has established an early foothold which gives it a place to work from as it develops into the future.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2024
$35m
SERIES B
Oct 2023
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $59m
Company benefits
- Regular off-sites, outings, and team meals
- Office lunches and snack bars
- Stock options
- Fully-paid health insurance coverage
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
Ellen Johnston
(CPO & Co-Founder)Was Co-Founder, Creative Director and CEO of Makr. Also worked as Director of Digital Experience at Staples.
Matt Lynch
(CTO & Co-Founder)Was a Senior Software Engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, and was Software Engineering Group Lead at Palantir Technologies.
Raj Mehra
(CEO & Co-Founder)Co-founded Coupon Doc and was head of Corporate Development at Palantir Technologies. Also worked as Head of Strategy and Operations at Cedar.
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