Hybrid Engineering Manager

at Pivotal Health

• Job title: Engineering Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $180,000 - $250,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Santa Monica, United States

About the role

• Engineering Manager leading a team building core systems for Pivotal Health's AI-driven healthcare reimbursement platform. Balancing technical depth with leadership to shape solutions and development process.

Responsibilities

• Lead as a player–coach: Contribute code, perform design reviews and PRs, and guide technical strategy and decisions while supporting the growth and effectiveness of the team.
• Partner deeply with Product: Collaborate closely with Product to gather requirements, clarify scope, and translate product vision into executable technical plans. Help shape solutions early rather than reacting late.
• Drive execution and delivery: Own the engineering side of delivery by guiding sprint planning, standups, retrospectives, and prioritization — ensuring the team is constantly shipping and learning from each cycle.
• Translate ambiguity into clarity: Take loosely defined problems and help the team break them down into clear, achievable work with well-understood tradeoffs and success criteria.
• Provide technical direction: Make pragmatic system design and architectural decisions that balance speed, quality, and scalability.
• Build lightweight process and rituals: Establish and evolve team workflows (planning, estimation, retros, incident follow-ups) that improve focus and predictability without unnecessary ceremony.
• Support and grow engineers: Coach engineers on execution, communication, and ownership, helping develop careers both on the IC and Managerial tracks.
• Model strong engineering culture: Set the tone for empathy, accountability, and collaborative problem-solving across engineering and cross-functional partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM preferred (additional experience in lieu of a degree is also accepted)
• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including recent hands-on backend work
• 2+ years of experience managing and developing Engineers
• Experience working in product-driven environments with close Product partnership
• Comfortable gathering requirements, asking clarifying questions, and shaping solutions collaboratively
• Experience leading teams through agile delivery practices (planning, standups, retros)
• Strong technical judgment with a bias toward pragmatic, shippable solutions
• Able to balance near-term delivery with longer-term technical health
• Clear communicator who builds trust across Engineering, Product, and Design
• Thrives in early-stage or scaling environments where structure is evolving

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including equity
• Full health, dental, and vision coverage
• Retirement savings plan through 401(k)
• Flexible time off
• Opportunities for company-wide connection and events