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Engineering Manager, Developer

Job in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60601, USA
Listing for: ECP
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-07-19
Job specializations:
  • Software Development
    DevOps, Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software, Backend Developer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Position: Engineering Manager, Developer Experience

ECP Foundation Engineering Role

ECP is a market-leading SaaS solution that enables senior living communities to better care for their residents. ECP is used in over 8,000 communities. We're looking to further expand by increasing the number of customers that use our software and increasing the scope of how we serve our customers by developing and releasing new products.

Senior living is deeply under-penetrated with software and ECP is one of the largest and fastest-growing software companies in the industry. We recently raised a growth round of equity to reinvest in our product, technology, and go-to-market. Our mission is to build world-class software that improves the quality of life for seniors and improves clinical, business, compliance, and operational performance for our customers.

The Role

Foundation Engineering is a new platform capability  owns the path from code to production: the CI/CD pipeline, the environments code runs in, the test automation framework, and the observability tooling that shows how code behaves once it's live.

Almost none of it is built yet. CI/CD is split across Bitbucket Pipelines and Jenkins. Environments are shared and fragile. QA writes the automated tests on delivery teams' behalf. We have Sentry and Cloud Watch, which is error tracking and infrastructure metrics, not observability. You'll fix all of it without breaking a product that thousands of communities run their operations on.

Our newer product surfaces move first; our clinical surfaces sit on the oldest platform and carry the highest cost of failure, so they move last, once the safety net exists.

The work is hands-on. Most of your time goes to writing infrastructure code and building tooling. You'll have an open req for one engineer to hire alongside you and two SDETs partnered with you on the test framework, reporting to the VP of Platform Engineering. This is a player-coach role: you'll build the team as the function grows, managing 2 to 4 people over time while staying close enough to the code to set the technical bar yourself.

The stack. New code is Node and Type Script. We're migrating off a Cold Fusion legacy platform, and the two will coexist for a while. SQL Server and PostgreSQL, a mix of monolith and services, adopting domain-driven design and an event-driven architecture, all on AWS. Your pipeline and tooling have to serve the old stack and the new one at the same time.

You won't be writing Cold Fusion.

What You'll Own

The delivery pipeline. Consolidate CI/CD onto a single system every delivery team builds and deploys through. Cut build and deploy times. Own the AWS and Cloud Formation infrastructure underneath it. Make dependency scanning, secrets detection, and static analysis default steps on every build. Give teams feature flags so deploy and release come apart.

The developer platform. This starts on the engineer's machine: environment setup, build speed, the tools they use before code ever reaches the pipeline. Replace shared environments with ephemeral ones, and solve multi-tenant test data seeding so they're usable. Our event bus is partially adopted, which makes contract testing part of this: services have to be testable in isolation without standing up the whole topology.

Establish golden paths: opinionated, documented ways to build, test, and deploy a service. Drive toward self-service, and over time an internal developer portal. Run the platform as a product, with a visible roadmap, a feedback channel teams actually use, and reliability standards for the platform itself.

The test automation framework. Turn a framework QA builds on delivery teams' behalf into one delivery engineers use directly. Two SDETs work with you on it. Building it is the straightforward part. Landing it with delivery leads whose teams are measured on shipping is the job.

Production ownership. Delivery engineers carry the pager for their own code today, but most incident response still lands on the infrastructure team, because engineers can't see or reach what they shipped. This is a HIPAA environment, so broad production access isn't on the table. Engineers need full visibility into how their systems behave without access to the data inside them. Build the logging, tracing, metrics, and alerting stack that delivers that, and give teams audited break-glass paths for the cases that need more.

The agentic development loop. Our engineers already use AI-assisted development, and it's made everything downstream of them slower. Code generation is cheap. Verification is not. That gap is what we're hiring you to close. You'll own what makes coding agents effective in our codebase: deterministic local builds, fast test feedback, repo context, sandboxed execution, review gates for agent-authored code, and internal platform capabilities exposed to agents through MCP.

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