Position Purpose

At Viventium + Apploi, we are proud to serve the people and organizations powering the healthcare workforce. Our connected Hire and HCM solutions help clients attract, hire, onboard, manage, pay, and support the essential employees who care for our communities. Viventium Hire helps healthcare employers move candidates from application to first shift by distributing jobs, managing high-volume candidate pipelines, verifying licenses and credentials, and supporting a connected transition into onboarding and payroll.

The Engineering Manager – Hire is a hands-on technical and people leader accountable for the delivery, quality, reliability, and continued evolution of the Viventium Hire platform. This role leads a product area spanning high-volume applicant tracking, candidate engagement, credentialing, job-board distribution, external integrations, and AI-powered hiring capabilities built with Python, React, GraphQL, relational databases, and Amazon Web Services.

This individual combines strong engineering judgment, active technical contribution, thoughtful people leadership, and cross-functional partnership. The Manager guides architecture and AI strategy, develops engineers, strengthens delivery practices, and helps the team solve complex recruiting, credentialing, integration, privacy, and compliance challenges without losing sight of the healthcare employers and candidates who depend on the platform.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape an AI-enabled healthcare hiring platform, influence engineering and AI practices across Viventium + Apploi, and build a team culture grounded in ownership, craftsmanship, collaboration, continuous learning, responsible innovation, and meaningful recognition.

Key Objectives

• Lead the Hire engineering team in delivering secure, reliable, scalable, and high-quality product experiences.
• Own technical direction and execution across frontend, backend, API, integration, data, AI, and cloud services while supporting the platform’s continued evolution.
• Build an accountable, collaborative, and high-performing team through clear expectations, regular coaching, meaningful feedback, and growth opportunities.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Quality Assurance, Architecture, Security, and other stakeholders to translate priorities into well-defined, achievable work.
• Advance AI-powered hiring capabilities that create measurable value for recruiters, hiring managers, candidates, and healthcare employers.
• Use delivery, quality, reliability, and product measures to strengthen predictability, surface risk early, and continuously improve team performance.
• Protect production health and the security, privacy, accuracy, and appropriate use of sensitive candidate and credential data.
• Promote strong documentation, knowledge sharing, responsible AI practices, and sustainable system ownership across the team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

Engineering Leadership and Delivery

• Lead end-to-end delivery for the Hire engineering team, from product discovery, planning, and technical design through development, testing, release, and production support.
• Establish clear priorities, remove blockers, manage dependencies, and create transparency around delivery commitments, risks, and tradeoffs.
• Balance near-term roadmap delivery with platform stability, maintainability, security, defect resolution, technical debt reduction, and long-term system health.
• Use team-level measures, including throughput, cycle time, escaped defects, change failure rate, and planned-versus-completed work, to identify constraints and guide improvement.
• Run a lightweight, disciplined delivery cadence that keeps work appropriately defined, visible, testable, and divided into manageable increments.
• Partner with Product, Design, and Quality Assurance to maintain a clear, prioritized backlog and align delivery expectations with business, client, and candidate needs.

Technical Direction and Platform Evolution

• Guide the technical architecture and roadmap for Viventium Hire in partnership with engineering and architecture leadership.
• Make and clearly communicate sound technical decisions and tradeoffs across Python services, React applications, GraphQL APIs, relational databases, third-party integrations, AI capabilities, and AWS infrastructure.
• Review designs, code, and implementation approaches to reinforce correctness, security, reliability, performance, maintainability, and alignment with broader engineering standards.
• Remain actively engaged in development and the team’s most complex technical challenges while empowering engineers to retain ownership of their work.
• Guide the design and operation of production services on AWS, including Infrastructure as Code, observability, automated testing, safe release practices, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
• Promote small, manageable code changes; effective peer review; CI/CD practices; and appropriate automated testing to support frequent, reliable delivery.
• Identify, prioritize, and manage technical risk, architectural constraints, system dependencies, and technical debt.

AI Strategy and Responsible Product Capabilities

• Guide the development and evolution of AI-powered Hire capabilities that create practical, measurable value for recruiters, hiring managers, candidates, and healthcare employers.
• Partner with Product to define appropriate use cases, success criteria, evaluation methods, and measures of customer and business value for AI-enabled features.
• Provide technical direction for large language model integrations, retrieval-augmented generation, tool-enabled capabilities, and agent-based workflows when appropriate to the use case.
• Evaluate AI design tradeoffs involving quality, accuracy, cost, latency, scalability, privacy, security, safety, explainability, and ongoing maintenance.
• Establish appropriate testing, monitoring, human review, and operational guardrails for AI-powered features before and after release.
• Drive an AI-first SDLC; Advance responsible use of AI across design, coding, testing, documentation, and code review while maintaining appropriate human judgment, security controls, and quality standards.
• Stay informed about evolving AI technologies and development practices and assess their relevance to the Hire platform and broader Viventium + Apploi ecosystem.

People Leadership and Team Development

• Lead, mentor, and support engineers across a range of experience levels through regular one-on-one meetings, timely feedback, coaching, performance discussions, and clear expectations.
• Create meaningful development opportunities through stretch assignments, technical ownership, pairing, knowledge sharing, and exposure to new technologies and business domains.
• Build an inclusive, collaborative, accountable, and positive team environment where employees can raise concerns, challenge ideas respectfully, and learn from outcomes.
• Recognize meaningful contributions and reinforce a culture of ownership, craftsmanship, responsible innovation, continuous improvement, and shared success.
• Support workforce planning, interviewing, selection, onboarding, and retention activities for the team in partnership with leadership and People resources.
• Address performance, workload, or team-health concerns promptly, consistently, and in alignment with Company practices.

Product, Domain, and Production Ownership

• Develop deep knowledge of healthcare hiring workflows, including job creation and distribution, applicant tracking, candidate pipelines, screening, interview scheduling, messaging, credential verification, electronic documentation, onboarding, and payroll handoffs.
• Own engineering outcomes across development, test, release, and production environments for assigned Hire product areas.
• Partner with Product to translate client, candidate, market, operational, integration, and compliance needs into feasible technical approaches and sequenced delivery plans.
• Maintain accountability for production stability and the reliability of Hire workflows that affect how quickly healthcare employers can attract, evaluate, credential, and onboard candidates.
• Protect the confidentiality, integrity, availability, and appropriate use of candidate, applicant, credential, and related employment information.
• Coordinate incident response, investigation, remediation, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action follow-through for production issues within the Hire product area.
• Identify product, workflow, technical, operational, privacy, or compliance risks early and communicate impact, options, and recommendations to the appropriate stakeholders.

Cross-Functional Collaboration, Documentation, and Continuous Improvement

• Collaborate with Product, Design, Quality Assurance, Architecture, Security, Support, Implementation, Client Success, Onboarding, Payroll, and other partners to deliver a connected Viventium + Apploi experience.
• Strengthen feedback loops across teams so requirements, constraints, dependencies, and risks surface early and decisions are documented clearly.
• Partner effectively on integrations with job boards, external vendors, third-party systems, and other components of the broader Viventium + Apploi platform.
• Ensure critical system architecture, domain knowledge, AI approaches, operational procedures, technical decisions, and support information are current and accessible.
• Reduce dependency on individual team members through documentation, pairing, cross-training, and shared ownership.
• Continuously evaluate team processes, developer experience, and engineering practices; measure whether changes improve outcomes; and avoid unnecessary process burden.
• All other duties, as assigned.

The essential functions listed above are representative of the primary duties required. Employees must be able to perform these functions with or without reasonable accommodation.

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. The Company reserves the right to modify the role as needed. Employment is at-will and may be terminated at any time with or without cause or notice, in accordance with applicable law.

Work Environment & Physical Requirements

• Ability to sit, stand, and/or work at a computer for extended periods.
• Ability to communicate effectively via phone, video, and written channels.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, technical decisions, projects, and deadlines in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• Ability to participate in production support, incident response, or scheduled release activities outside standard business hours when business needs require.
• Travel may be required periodically for client meetings, team meetings, or business needs.

Reasonable accommodations will be provided in accordance with applicable law.

Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, a related technical discipline preferred, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years leading engineers with direct responsibility for one-on-one meetings, feedback, coaching, and performance discussions.
• Strong hands-on experience with Python, including building and operating production backend services and GraphQL APIs supported by relational databases.
• Hands-on experience with React and the development of modern web applications.
• Experience building and operating production systems on AWS, including Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform, AWS Cloud Development Kit, or comparable tools and frameworks.
• Experience developing and releasing large language model-powered features in production environments.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools as part of the software development lifecycle.
• Demonstrated success delivering software through Agile or Scrum practices, CI/CD, automated testing, code review, and measurable delivery improvement.
• Practical experience with observability, release management, production support, incident response, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action follow-through.
• Ability to make and communicate sound technical tradeoffs, resolve disagreement constructively, and align technical and business stakeholders.
• Leadership style grounded in empathy, transparency, accountability, inclusion, and active coaching.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt effectively as Viventium + Apploi continues to grow and integrate.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with recruiting technology, applicant-tracking systems, human resources technology, payroll, or human capital management software.
• Experience supporting healthcare or other regulated-industry use cases involving licensing, credentialing, privacy, or compliance requirements.
• Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, model tool use, agent-based workflows, AI evaluation methods, and related privacy and safety guardrails.
• Experience designing, building, or supporting integrations with job boards, external vendors, and other third-party systems.
• Experience with GraphQL architecture, relational data models, scalable API services, and distributed systems.
• Experience leading engineering teams through organizational growth, platform integration, modernization, or significant product change.
• Familiarity with responsible AI, secure software development, privacy-by-design, and the handling of sensitive candidate or employee information.

Success Profile (What Good Looks Like in 12 Months)

• Demonstrates strong command of the Hire domain and systems and can make, explain, and defend key technical decisions.
• Builds a team environment where every engineer has clear expectations, regular coaching, meaningful feedback, and an understood development path.
• Establishes and uses delivery, quality, reliability, and product measures to improve predictability, transparency, and decision-making with Product and Engineering partners.
• Delivers meaningful product and technical improvements while maintaining appropriate attention to production health, security, privacy, and customer impact.
• Creates clear ownership across development, testing, release, and production support for assigned Hire product areas.
• Assess existing AI capabilities and agree on priorities.
• Delivers AI-powered capabilities that address defined user needs and can be evaluated for quality, reliability, and customer value.
• Makes technical decisions that are documented, maintainable, aligned with engineering standards, and supportive of the broader platform roadmap.
• Reduces avoidable operational risk through stronger observability, documentation, automated testing, safe releases, and proactive incident follow-through.
• Develops engineers who demonstrate increasing ownership, sound judgment, collaboration, and technical capability.
• Contributes positively to engineering consistency, knowledge sharing, AI-enabled development practices, and the broader Viventium + Apploi technology organization.

Compensation & Pay Transparency

• Base Salary Range: $160,000 - $187,500 per year.
• This range reflects the expected base salary for this position and is aligned with market data and internal equity considerations.
• Individual compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and geographic location.
• This role may also be eligible for discretionary bonus or other incentive compensation, in accordance with Company plans.
• Viventium + Apploi is committed to maintaining competitive, equitable, and transparent compensation practices in compliance with all applicable laws.