Senior Engineering Manager, Tech Lead | COB Product

Machinify is a leading healthcare intelligence company with expertise across the payment continuum, delivering unmatched value, transparency, and efficiency to health plan clients across the country. Deployed by over 85 health plans, including many of the top 20, and representing more than 270 million lives, Machinify brings together a fully configurable and content-rich, AI-powered platform along with best-in-class expertise. We’re constantly reimagining what’s possible in our industry, creating disruptively simple, powerfully clear ways to maximize financial outcomes and drive down healthcare costs. Location: Remote – US Salary Range: $225,000–$260,000 base, plus equity and benefits (MGR level evaluated through our interview process) The Role We're hiring a Technical Senior Engineering Manager to lead the engineering team for Coordination of Benefits (COB). This is a new need as we expand our right payer solutions products! You'll build a scalable, AI-driven, cloud-native solution that transforms how COB is done. Making it faster, more accurate, and more efficient. Our Coordinate product will be core to how we identify overlapping coverage, determine primacy, and recover dollars, ultimately helping reduce the cost of care for millions of members. You'll be leading the team building this product from the ground up! You will set the technical direction and engineering bar for a new product and a growing team, establishing strong principles from the outset and making sound architectural decisions under genuine ambiguity. You will lead a team of 5–6 engineers that’ll partner closely with product, platform, DS, ML, UX, QA and operations team. This is a great opportunity for someone with high technical ownership to lead a team shaping a product as we build 0-1! What You'll Do Engineering & Team Leadership Own the architecture, technical roadmap, and production releases for CORA, holding the team accountable for quality, reliability, and delivery pace Stay hands-on through architectural design, code review, and selective coding where it sets the technical bar for the team Hire, develop, and retain a team of 5–6 engineers, with deliberate investment in coaching, career growth, and performance management Establish the engineering standards, operational practices, and delivery rhythm appropriate to an early-stage greenfield product Guide the design of the core rules engine, the claims pipeline, and the AI innovation that moves COB determinations to be more accurate and efficient Drive platform decisions for extensibility, scalability, and the security that regulated healthcare data demands as CORA onboards new payers Cross-Functional & Stakeholder Leadership Partner with product, ML, UX, and operations to translate evolving payer and analyst requirements into scoped, sequenced work with measurable targets Align stakeholders across teams on priorities, tradeoffs, and timelines, and drive cross-functional decisions cleanly to closure Define and report the metrics that demonstrate engineering and product impact to leadership and to partner teams across the company Represent the team to executive and customer audiences, presenting results and clear articulation of technical strategy What You Bring 3+ years of combined technical leadership and engineering management 8+ years building production backend services and applications Hands-on experience building and operating microservice architectures on containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) with strong observability Proficiency in Java, GoLang, Scala, or Rust Proven track record hiring, developing, and managing high-performing engineering teams, including performance management Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives and aligning product, ML, and business stakeholders toward shared outcomes Excellent communication skills, including translating technical tradeoffs for non-technical audiences and presenting to executives Demonstrated ability to drive ambiguous, ope…