Charlie Health · 1 day ago
Director of Engineering
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$285K/yr - $346K/yr
8+ years expCharlie Health is a rapidly growing organization focused on transforming behavioral health care through personalized, virtual treatment. The Director of Engineering will build and shape the technological platform behind the care model, ensuring high-quality experiences for clients and clinicians while leading multiple engineering teams.
Health Care
Responsibilities
Lead multiple product engineering teams and partner closely with infrastructure and data functions
Translate company and care strategy into clear engineering priorities, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes
Drive reliable delivery: planning, execution, dependency management, and predictable shipping across teams
Raise the bar on system reliability, performance, and correctness for the services that power care delivery and decision making
Establish healthy engineering practices across teams (quality, incident response, on-call, observability, and continuous improvement)
Grow and develop engineering managers and senior ICs; build a high-performing, accountable culture
Partner with Product, Design, and Clinical leaders to scope, deliver, and iterate on customer-facing and clinician-facing capabilities
Identify technical risks early and drive pragmatic tradeoffs that balance speed, quality, and long-term platform health
Qualification
Required
8+ years of engineering experience, including 4+ years leading multiple teams (directly or through managers)
Proven track record owning business-critical systems in production with strong reliability and quality outcomes
Demonstrated ability to scale delivery through teams: clear priorities, strong execution, and effective cross-functional partnership
Strong technical foundation; able to review architecture, dive into code when needed, and guide senior engineers on design and tradeoffs
Experience improving engineering operations (planning, on-call, incident management, metrics, and delivery predictability)
Strong product judgment and comfort making tradeoffs that affect quality, speed, and outcomes
Clear, direct communication style with high standards for execution and accountability
Benefits
Performance bonus
Stock options
Comprehensive benefits
Company
Charlie Health
Virtual behavioral health clinic for high acuity youth
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$0.85M2020-06-04Seed· $0.85M
Leadership Team
Justin Weiss
Co-founder, Head of Corporate Strategy
Ellen Broxmeyer
Chief Compliance Officer
Recent News
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