Director of Engineering

Director of Engineering

Athelas

Location:

Mountain View, CA

Employment type:

Full-time

Base pay range: $200,000 - $240,000 per year

Come join us at Commure + Athelas to lead the development of Air, our next-generation Electronic Health Record (EHR) platform.

What You’ll Do

• Own the technical direction, people strategy, and delivery excellence for the Air Engineering org — currently ~25 engineers across multiple pods.

• Manage and grow a team of engineering leaders, providing coaching, structure, and support as they scale their teams and scope.

• Set the long-term architectural vision for the Air platform in partnership with senior engineers and architects.

• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, AI, RCM, and other stakeholders to define and deliver a cohesive roadmap aligned with customer needs and business goals.

• Drive execution excellence by establishing and continuously improving processes for execution, planning, prioritization, incident management, quality assurance, and feedback loops.

• Mentor senior ICs and help grow a culture of strong engineering judgment, healthy technical debate, and thoughtful decision-making.

• Champion a culture of operational rigor, code quality, and respectful, in-person collaboration.

• Represent engineering at the senior leadership level, contributing to company-wide planning, headcount forecasting, and strategic trade-offs.

Required

What You Have

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated technical contributions across multiple complex systems.

• 5+ years of engineering management experience, including managing other managers and building high-performing orgs of 15+ engineers.

• Proven success scaling engineering organizations in high-growth environments while maintaining strong execution and culture.

• Strong architectural and systems thinking, with the ability to guide technical strategy and trade-offs for a large product surface area.

• Track record of cross-functional collaboration, especially with Product, Design, and Ops teams, to build and ship products that solve real-world problems.

• Product-oriented mindset — you care about the “why,” not just the “how,” and can balance technical depth with user and business context.

• Excellent communication and leadership presence, with the ability to influence across levels and functions.

• Deep empathy for healthcare end users and a desire to help fix the broken operational systems behind the care journey.

Preferred

• Experience working on EHRs or clinical software and familiarity with healthcare regulations (e.g. HIPAA, SOC
2).

• Background leading full-stack engineering teams across web, API, and data layers (React, Python, Postgre

SQL, Graph

QL/REST).

• Experience with AI-integrated product development or working closely with ML/AI teams.

We’re excited about building the future of healthcare and leading a team of engineers dedicated to making a real-world impact. If you're excited about building the future of healthcare and leading a team of engineers dedicated to making a real-world impact, we’d love to hear from you!

Commure is committed to creating and fostering a diverse team. We are open to all backgrounds and levels of experience, and believe that great people can always find a place. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to all applicants throughout the application process.

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