Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager

Location: Flexible (Hybrid or Remote) | Team: Engineering | Reports to: CTO

About the Role:

Trio Health is seeking an Engineering Manager who can operate as a true player-coach with a 75/25 management-to-coding split. You’ll lead a team of engineers while remaining close to the work through code reviews, requirements gathering, coordination, and technical guidance. This role is ideal for someone who leads through influence, empowers others, and thrives in high-autonomy and high-ambiguity environments. You’ll also partner closely with stakeholders to translate product and data requirements into clear engineering plans, specs, and JIRA stories.

Who We Are:

Trio Health is a healthcare technology and analytics company that partners with clinical experts and leverages Electronic Health Record (EHR) data to transform patient care. Our proprietary platform empowers Life Sciences stakeholders and Channel Partners with curated insights across the entire patient journey. By combining cutting-edge data engineering with healthcare expertise, we accelerate research, improve outcomes, and unlock new possibilities for patients.

Your Impact:

Your leadership will help scale engineering delivery while improving execution, alignment, and clarity across teams.

Your work will:

• Provide leadership to a growing engineering team (5–20) through mentorship, coordination, and empowerment
• Foster collaboration with Product, Data, and business stakeholders to define and translate requirements into actionable plans
• Provide process, structure and guidance in a scaling organization
• Drive alignment with OKRs, career development, and performance feedback
• Support 0–1 product delivery, rapid iteration, and long-term scalability
• Help operationalize impactful AI/ML productivity tools where useful

What You’ll Do:

• Manage day-to-day execution and delivery across engineering projects
• Write/review technical specs, user stories, and JIRA tickets that reflect stakeholder needs
• Facilitate sprint planning, prioritization, and communication across teams
• Conduct code reviews and ensure engineering standards are upheld
• Provide feedback, mentorship, and career guidance to engineers
• Partner with Product to define scope, roadmap alignment, and tradeoff decisions
• Contribute to coding, architecture discussions, or prototyping as needed
• Support scaling efforts from early-stage buildout to mature team structures
• Guide adoption of cloud and data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Azure or AWS

Your Superpowers:

• Experience managing engineering teams of 5–20
• Proven ability to operate as a player-coach (leadership + hands-on)
• Strong communication skills for translating requirements into execution
• Familiarity with Snowflake, Databricks, Azure, AWS, or similar cloud ecosystems
• Comfortable working in high-autonomy, high-ambiguity startup environments
• Ability to lead through influence and take a servant leadership approach
• Experience partnering with product teams or acting in a Technical Product Owner capacity
• Confidence navigating OKRs, feedback cycles, and career development
• Experience implementing and using appropriate engineering metrics to inform effectiveness and productivity, such as Developer Satisfaction, time to deploy, time to fix and more

Bonus Points If You:

• Have exposure to LLMs, AI developer tools, or Python-based NLP workflows
• Demonstrate practical AI/ML integration without hype
• Have experience scaling teams and processes from early-stage to growth
• Have written or overseen specs, epics, and stakeholder-facing plans
• Can present technical progress to business, product, or executive stakeholders
• Have led teams building data-driven products or platform capabilities

Team, Culture & Work Style:

At Trio, you’ll join a tight-knit team of 11 engineers working across data, applications, and infrastructure. We value transparency, curiosity, and collaboration—balancing pragmatic delivery with long-term technical vision. You’ll have the opportunity to step into a leadership role, helping us scale applications that directly impact patient care.

Salary Range: $160,000.00 - $190,000.00 per year

What’s In It For You:

• 401(k) with company matching, Dental, vision, and health insurance (with FSA and HSA options), Flexible spending account, Paid time off
• Competitive compensation & comprehensive benefits package

What Happens Next:

We know there are a lot of qualified candidates out there, and we truly appreciate your interest in joining Trio. Our process is designed to be transparent and efficient. We do our best to review every application and respond in a timely manner. If you don’t hear from us right away, please know it’s simply because we receive a high volume of applications—not because we don’t value yours.

Our Interview Process:

• Recruiter Call – A quick introduction to learn about your background and share more about Trio
• Technical Interview – A deep dive with our engineers focused on Databricks, SQL, Python, and data pipeline design
• Team Interview – A collaborative set of conversations with several of our engineers, typically scheduled together on the same day to minimize disruption and respect your time
• Final Conversation – A closing discussion with our CTO and leadership team about the role, mission, and long-term growth opportunities
• We aim to keep the process focused and candidate friendly. Most candidates move from first conversation to decision within 3–4 weeks