Senior Engineering Manager, Color
$220-280k
2-3 days a week in office (South SF, CA)
Virtual cancer clinic focused on early detection, treatment and care
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Virtual cancer clinic focused on early detection, treatment and care
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$220-280k
2-3 days a week in office (South SF, CA)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To reinvent how cancer care is delivered by bringing together engineering, design, science, and clinical expertise at every step of the journey.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re motivated by building systems that matter — and doing it in a pragmatic, high-autonomy environment — this role is for you!
- 8+ years of experience building and shipping production systems in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
- 3+ years of experience managing engineers, including senior engineers and/or multiple teams
- Experience operating in startup or high-growth environments where leaders are expected to define strategy and execute
- A track record of delivering cross-functional initiatives from concept through iteration
- Strong technical judgment across backend systems, APIs, and frontend applications (experience with Python/Django, React, AWS, and SQL is a plus)
- Experience introducing AI-enabled tooling or workflow automation into production systems
- Demonstrated success developing engineers through direct feedback, growth planning, and sponsorship
- Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical partners
Desirable
- Experience working with EHR applications
- Experience integrating LLM based features into tools teams owned to automate tasks and unlock efficiencies
- Experience integrating with 3rd party systems
What the job involves
- You will lead a team at the center of how Color delivers care at scale. As a Senior Engineering Manager on Care Operations, you will shape the systems that power our clinicians and care teams — enabling high-quality, accessible healthcare for millions of people
- This is a high-ownership role. You will define technical direction, drive execution across complex workflows, and help evolve our care delivery platform in a fast-moving, startup environment. Your work will directly influence how quickly we can launch new programs, integrate AI into care operations, and improve patient experience
- Lead and grow a team of engineers, setting clear direction and creating a culture of ownership and accountability
- Define and evolve the architecture of our care operations platform to support scale, reliability, and rapid iteration
- Partner closely with product, clinical, data, and operations leaders to translate complex healthcare workflows into simple, high-leverage systems
- Drive pragmatic adoption of AI and automation to increase care team efficiency and unlock new capabilities
- Balance speed and durability in a regulated environment, making thoughtful tradeoffs that support long-term scalability
- Develop senior engineers into technical leaders through structured feedback, coaching, and delegation of meaningful ownership
- Improve system observability, quality, and operational excellence so internal teams can depend on our tools every day
- Contribute to broader engineering strategy, prioritization, and cross-team alignment as a senior engineering leader
- Possible Projects to Contribute to:
- Redesign and scale our patient messaging platform to support personalized, AI-augmented care journeys
- Embed AI-driven automation into care workflows to significantly increase care team capacity without sacrificing quality
- Evolve our headless EHR layer into a flexible, extensible platform that accelerates new care programs
Our take
Cancer care today is often fragmented, slow, and hard to access, so people are facing long waits for things like screenings, delays between diagnosis and treatment and confusing handoffs between providers. Because of this, cancers are often caught later than they should be, some care gaps go unaddressed, and patients are left to navigate an overwhelming system on their own. And for employers and health plans, this also drives higher costs and poorer outcomes across their populations.
Color has stepped in to act as a single partner across the entire cancer journey, from screening to treatment to survivorship. Led by oncologists, Co,or focuses on three simple ideas: making care easier to access, moving faster, and providing direct clinical support. Through at-home, guideline-based screening and proactive outreach, Color helps identify high-risk individuals and catch cancer earlier. Its clinical team works directly with patients to reduce barriers, close care gaps, and coordinate timely diagnosis and treatment, so people aren't left to figure things out on their own.
This approach is showing strong results too. Color drives high enrollment, significantly improves screening adherence, and cuts the time it takes for patients to get diagnosed and treated. By closing care gaps and supporting people through treatment and beyond, it improves outcomes while also lowering overall costs. With this success, the company is in a good position to keep redefining cancer care by scaling model that's faster, more accessible, and centered on real human needs.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2021
$100m
SERIES E
Jan 2021
$167m
SERIES D
Total funding: $482m
Company HQ
Ingold - Milldale, Burlingame, CA
Leadership
Othman Laraki
(Co-Founder & CEO)After an MBA at MIT, they worked at Google as a Product Manager for almost 4 years, prior to co-founding Mixer Labs and working at Twitter and Pinterest. They left this Board role at ESI Group in 2012 to co-found Color in March 2013.
Rebecca Miksad
(CMO)Rebecca is the founder and CEO of Miksad MD Consulting and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. Alongside this, she is also an Associate Editor of RWE, RWD and Oncology for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (CPT) Journal at the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics.
Joshua Sturm
(CRO)Prior to joining Color in 2024, Joshua spent over 4 years at Hinge Health, joining as VP of Partnerships & Business Development before moving into the role of VP of New Market development. Before that, he was VP of Key Accounts (Health Plans) at Surescripts and also spent nearly 14 years at Express Scripts, holding various roles including Director of Account Management and Senior Director of Strategic Relations.
Stephan Meyer-Ewald
(CPO)Prior to joining COlor in 2022, Stephan was the VP, Head of People at Roblox and SmartThings. He also spent 9 years at Google as a Director of People Operations and Project Director.
Dany Matar
(COO)Dany joined COlor in 2019 working in Strategic Partnerships, since then he has held a number of roles and moved into the role of COO in 2025. Prior to Color, he was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company.
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