About Helm Health

The Role

Responsibilities

• Partner with the CTO to define and execute engineering strategy, org structure, and hiring plans
• Take on direct management of team leads, including 1:1s, career development, and performance management.
• Serve as a technical escalation point across all engineering teams and product areas.s
• Participate in architecture reviews and make binding technical decisions when needed.
• Respond to production incidents alongside the on-call team
• Own and improve engineering processes: sprint cadence, release management, code review standards, incident response, postmortems
• Represent engineering in cross-functional discussions with product, operations, and client-facing teams
• Meet with clients when technical depth is required
• Drive compliance and security practices across engineering (HIPAA, SOC 2 Type 2, HITRUST)
• Help recruit, interview, and close senior and leadership engineering hires

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time as a hands-on technical leader
• Deep expertise across multiple domains: backend services, cloud infrastructure, data systems, and frontend architecture
• Experience managing engineering managers or tech leads (not just ICs)
• Go and TypeScript proficiency
• Strong understanding of PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Redis, Firestore, and cloud-native database patterns
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (or equivalent depth with willingness to work in GCP)
• Docker/Kubernetes

Preferred Qualifications

• Python proficiency
• Health insurance or claims processing experience
• HIPAA, SOC 2 Type 2, or HITRUST compliance experience
• Terraform/Terraform Cloud
• Experience with event-driven architectures, distributed systems, or real-time data pipelines
• Start-up experience, especially Series A through Series C growth stages
• Incident management and response leadership

Characteristics

• Technically fearless — you default to understanding problems at the deepest level available to you.
• High-integrity communicator — you say what you mean, flag risks early, anddon'tt paper over problems
• Generalist by nature —you're energized by switching between a Terraform module, a Go service, a React component, and a difficult personnel conversation in the same day
• Ownership mentality — you treat the entire engineering org as your responsibility, not just your direct reports
• Mission-driven — motivated by making healthcare simpler and more transparent
• Calm, clear, and decisive under pressure

Internal Tools/Technology

• Cursor / Linear / GitHub / Notion / Whimsical
• Slack / Google Workspace / Zoom
• incident.io / Sentry / Drata / Cloudsmith / HCP Terraform
• Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini — we are an AI-forward engineering team
• macOS / Linux

Compensation

Benefits/Offerings

• Unlimited PTO (mandatory 12 days)
• Computer + home office stipend
• 401(k) + matching
• Health and dental insurance
• Autonomy and tons of room for career growth

Occasional Travel