Answersnow Senior Engineering Manager at AnswersNow leading engineering teams and owning engineering organization health. This role partners with CTO and product leadership to ensure delivery of impactful autism therapy technology.
Responsibilities
Technical Leadership
Own and evolve the architecture of our core platform: React frontend, Node.js/Express APIs, Postgres, and AWS ECS infrastructure
Drive our JavaScript → TypeScript migration, establishing patterns, tooling, and standards the team can follow
Design and extend our ETL pipeline and config-driven AI integration framework, enabling engineers to ship AI-powered features faster and more reliably
Lead technical design reviews, create architecture decision records (ADRs), and ensure engineering decisions are documented and defensible
Identify and resolve systemic technical debt — not just flagging it, but owning the plan to address it
Define and execute the technical strategy for integrating ML/AI models into our core platform, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability.
Engineering Culture & Mentorship
Mentor engineers across all levels — pair, review, coach, and grow the team's collective capability
Establish and maintain engineering standards: code quality, testing practices, observability, on-call runbooks, and incident response
Serve as a technical resource and thought partner for product, clinical, and business stakeholders
Help define the engineering hiring bar and participate in the interview process
Qualification
Strong command of ReactTrack record of technical mentorship
Required
8+ years of professional software engineering experience
3+ years in a senior or staff-level role
Deep expertise in JavaScript and TypeScript in production full-stack environments
Strong command of React, Node.js/Express, and Postgres
Proven experience designing and owning distributed systems or data pipeline architectures on AWS
Track record of technical mentorship
Excellent written and verbal communication
Experience working in or leading engineering at a growth-stage startup
Preferred
Experience with healthcare or regulated data environments (HIPAA compliance, PHI handling)
Familiarity with event-driven architectures, message queues, or streaming pipelines
Prior experience as an engineering manager who returned to an IC track (player-coach background welcome)
Contributions to open source or engineering blog posts / conference talks