Senior Engineering Manager - SmartRequest

Datavant protects, connects, and delivers the world's health data to power better decisions and advance human health. We are a data logistics company for healthcare whose products and solutions enable organizations to move and connect data securely. Datavant has a network of networks consisting of thousands of organizations, more than 70,000 hospitals and clinics, 70% of the 100 largest health systems, and an ecosystem of 500+ real-world data partners.

By joining Datavant today, you're stepping onto a highly collaborative, remote-first team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare. We hire for three traits: we want people who are smart, nice, and get things done. We invest in our people and believe in hiring for high-potential and humble individuals who can rapidly grow their responsibilities as the company scales. Datavant is a distributed, remote-first team, and we empower Datavanters to shape their working environment in a way that suits their needs.

At Datavant we understand that great managers are the foundation on which great engineering organizations are built. Success as an engineering manager at Datavant looks like predictably delivering great software with strong business alignment and building a team of successful, empowered engineers who drive impact for the company and their own careers. We expect our engineering managers to own projects and initiatives, ask the tough technical questions, and provide the support their teams need to be successful.

As the manager for the SmartRequest team you will be a major factor in growing our healthcare data ecosystem solution for our clients. SmartRequest is used by a wide variety of customers to gather data to help patients. Our mission is to provide a complete and seamless experience for our customers that simplifies the process of retrieving medical records. In the SmartRequest team, you'll be instrumental in making our SmartRequest product into the industry's leading solution for retrieving high quality medical records. Our current software stack is TypeScript and React on the frontend and python services on the backend.

What You Bring to the Table:

• 5+ years of software engineering management experience, with experience managing and growing senior engineers;
• A love of distilling order from chaos and an allergy to accepting the status quo at face value;
• The ability to take ownership of an underspecified objective, tease out a clear goal that aligns with the business, discover the dependencies, create a plan, build cross-team and cross-functional support, engage your team, and deliver;
• Ability to successfully deliver projects that may span teams, with a time horizon of 12+ months;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (think Nonviolent Communication and Smart Brevity) with high EQ;
• Comfort working and managing remotely across timezones; and
• Excitement, passion, and curiosity about our mission of connecting the world's health data and improving patient outcomes.

The Impact You Will Make:

• Grow the SmartRequest product into an industry leader with direct top line impact
• Build, grow, and lead a world-class team of software engineers;
• Own the technical vision for Datavant's SmartRequest product;
• Improve the way we build software and run teams through better process; and

Make a difference in patients' lives by unlocking secure, accessible, and actionable health data.

Our compensation philosophy is to be externally competitive, internally fair, and not win or lose on compensation. Salary ranges for this position are developed with the support of benchmarks and industry best practices.

We're building a high-growth, high-autonomy culture. We rely less on job titles and more on cultivating an environment where anyone can contribute, the best ideas win, and personal growth is driven by expanding impact. The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job. The estimated salary range for this role is $220,000 - $280,000.

To ensure the safety of patients and staff, many of our clients require post-offer health screenings and proof and/or completion of various vaccinations such as the flu shot, Tdap, COVID-19, etc. Any requests to be exempted from these requirements will be reviewed by Datavant Human Resources and determined on a case-by-case basis. Depending on the state in which you will be working, exemptions may be available on the basis of disability, medical contraindications to the vaccine or any of its components, pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions, and/or religion.

This job is not eligible for employment sponsorship.

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