Technical Engineer Manager | Subrogate 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. We’re seeking a skilled Senior Engineer Manager to join our team! Machinify is seeking a technically deep and inspiring Engineering Manager to lead our Subrogation product team. This is a newly formed team scaling to 5–6 engineers over the next year, requiring a hands-on technical leader to establish strong engineering foundations from the outset and build a high-caliber team from the ground up. You bring a strong track record of recruiting and hiring top-tier engineering talent, with the instincts and rigor to assess for both technical depth and long-term fit. You see hiring as a core leadership responsibility, not a task to delegate, and you're energized by the opportunity to shape team culture, calibrate the bar, and partner closely with recruiting to bring in engineers who will define what this team becomes. Our team builds end-to-end AI system services that automate and drive efficiency across healthcare operations. We leverage the latest advances in AI—including data mining, generative AI, and agentic systems—to build the next generation of healthcare claims and payment automation products. This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of healthcare operations by delivering solutions that combine deep technical expertise, customer empathy, and a commitment to transforming complex workflows at scale. The ideal candidate brings a strong track record across distributed systems, tech stack modernization, and backend services development, paired with proven technical and people leadership. You're energized by architecting performant platforms and web applications that deliver measurable customer impact. You push your team to adopt tools and practices that accelerate velocity—championing test automation, CI/CD maturity, and AI-assisted development workflows. You'll join an engineering organization of high-performing software and data engineers who thrive at the cutting edge of applied AI. Our teams partner cross-functionally to influence product direction, work directly with customers, and own systems positively impacting millions of lives—where your technical decisions truly matter! Does this sound like the right opportunity to explore?... Lets connect! What You’ll Do This is a hands-on role: You will be deeply involved in architectural design, part-time on coding and code reviews Lead the development and production releases of robust, observable and intuitive solutions and workflows for healthcare subrogation product lines Manage a small and nimble team of developers Develop plans and track production features for on-time quality releases Understand with data what slows your team down, and develop phased plans to reduce pain points and increase velocity Own projects aligned with our product development strategy Influence the direction of the underlying platform to ensure it is extensible, scalable, and secure Measure impact through metrics Collaborate with team and external stakeholders such as Product Managers, Backend and Frontend Engineers, UX team, & our customers What You Bring 3+ years of combined hands-on technical leadership and engineering management experience 8+ years of production application development, backend services experience, and developing API's/micro-services at scale Proficiency in one or more backend languages (Java, Scala, or Rust) Experience hiring, growing careers and managing performance for engineering teams and leads Experience working along side with ML engineering teams Experience leading cross functionally with product managers, other engineering teams, UI team, and customer account representatives Strong orientation towards building and utilizing lightweight mechanisms, including running retrospectives, operations reviews, and backlog scrubs BS or MS in Computer science (or equivalent experience) Familiarity with AI tools for development and test efficiency Comfortable with ambiguity and taking the initiative Excitement to make an impact in rewiring US healthcare! What We Offer Work from anywhere in the US! Machinify is digital-first. Top Medical/Dental/Vision offerings FSA/HSA Tuition reimbursement Competitive salary, 401(k) with company match Unlimited PTO Additional health and wellness benefits and perks Flexible and trusting environment where you’ll feel empowered to do your best work The salary for this position is based on an array of factors unique to each candidate: Such as years and depth of experience, set skills, certifications, etc. We are hiring for different levels, and our Recruiting team will let you know if you qualify for a different role/range. Salary is one component of the total compensation package, which includes meaningful equity, excellent healthcare, flexible time off, and other benefits and perks. Pay range: $230,000-260,000.00 Equal Employment Opportunity at Machinify We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Machinify is an employment at will employer. We participate in E-Verify as required by applicable law. In accordance with applicable state laws, we do not inquire about salary history during the recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruitment process, please let our recruiters know. See our Candidate Privacy Notice at: https://www.machinify.com/candidate-privacy-notice/