Woundtech is seeking an Engineering Lead. This is a player-coach role for an experienced software engineer who combines strong hands-on technical expertise with people and delivery leadership. Engineering Leads remain active contributors to software design and development while leading a small engineering team, typically consisting of 3–6 engineers.
This is intentionally a hands-on engineering role. Engineering Leads are expected to spend at least 60% of their time contributing directly to software engineering, including coding, technical design, code reviews, architecture, testing, troubleshooting, and other hands-on development activities. The remaining time is focused on team leadership, coaching, delivery, planning, and cross-functional collaboration.
Engineering Leads are accountable for the technical execution and engineering quality of their teams. They lead sprint planning and technical execution, coach and develop engineers, remove blockers, and ensure engineering best practices are consistently applied. They are expected to lead by example—not only directing how software should be built, but actively building it alongside their teams.
The Engineering Lead works closely with Product, Design, QA, DevSecOps, Architecture, Data, Security, and other stakeholders to take initiatives from discovery and technical design through development, deployment, and production support.
Primary Responsibilities
- Hands-On Engineering & Technical Delivery
- Spend at least 60% of your time actively contributing to software engineering and development activities.
- Design, develop, test, and deliver product features using technologies such as React, Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL.
- Take ownership of complex, high-risk, or architecturally significant development work.
- Translate business and product requirements into secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable technical solutions.
- Lead by example through high-quality code, thoughtful technical design, appropriate testing, and strong engineering practices.
- Maintain sufficient hands-on knowledge of the codebase to effectively guide technical decisions, review implementations, troubleshoot issues, and support engineers.
- Team Leadership & Coaching
- Serve as the player-coach for a small engineering team, typically 3–6 engineers, while remaining a hands-on contributor.
- Conduct regular one-on-one meetings with engineers to provide feedback, coaching, and support.
- Support engineers' career development by identifying strengths, development opportunities, and appropriate growth objectives.
- Mentor Software Engineers and Senior Software Engineers on technical design, problem-solving, architecture, engineering practices, and professional development.
- Establish clear expectations and reinforce individual and team accountability.
- Foster a culture of engineering excellence, collaboration, ownership, continuous learning, and constructive technical debate.
- Recognize performance issues or skill gaps early and partner with engineering leadership to address them appropriately.
- Model and promote effective use of Claude and AI-assisted development workflows, coaching engineers on best practices for using AI to improve development velocity, code quality, testing, documentation, and problem-solving.
- Engineering Quality & Shift-Left Testing
- Establish and enforce a shift-left quality mindset, where quality is owned by engineering throughout the development lifecycle rather than treated as a downstream QA responsibility.
- Ensure appropriate unit, integration, system, and end-to-end testing is a non-negotiable part of software delivery.
- Perform code reviews and ensure changes meet Woundtech's standards for quality, maintainability, performance, security, and test coverage.
- Reject or require remediation of pull requests that lack adequate automated test coverage or fail to meet established engineering standards.
- Partner with QA to continuously improve test automation and reduce reliance on manual regression testing.
- Drive improvements in defect prevention, automated testing, code quality, deployment confidence, and production reliability.
- Ensure technical documentation is maintained for important systems, architectural decisions, and development standards.
- Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Lead technical design and architectural discussions within the team's domain.
- Make sound technical decisions while evaluating tradeoffs across scalability, performance, security, reliability, maintainability, cost, and delivery speed.
- Conduct architectural and technical design reviews for significant changes.
- Partner with Architecture and DevSecOps to ensure solutions align with broader platform, cloud, security, and engineering standards.
- Identify and proactively address technical debt while balancing immediate product priorities with long-term platform sustainability.
- Promote reusable patterns and solutions that improve consistency across Woundtech's technology ecosystem.
- Sprint Leadership & Delivery
- Lead the team's technical execution throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Actively participate in and help lead sprint planning, refinement, estimation, demos, and retrospectives.
- Partner with Product Managers to ensure initiatives are appropriately scoped, technically feasible, and ready for engineering execution.
- Break complex initiatives into clear and achievable technical deliverables.
- Ensure engineers understand technical requirements, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and quality expectations before development begins.
- Identify delivery risks and blockers early and drive them toward resolution.
- Remove technical and organizational blockers that prevent engineers from delivering effectively.
- Hold the team accountable for commitments while maintaining appropriate engineering quality and technical standards.
- Use delivery and engineering metrics to identify opportunities to improve predictability, quality, and team effectiveness.
- Product & Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner closely with Product Managers to balance technical and business priorities and ensure engineering considerations are incorporated into product decisions.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, QA, DevSecOps, Architecture, Data, Security, and other engineering teams to resolve dependencies and deliver cohesive solutions.
- Participate early in product discovery to help evaluate technical feasibility, complexity, dependencies, and risks.
- Communicate technical concepts, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Challenge assumptions constructively and help the team make pragmatic, data-informed decisions.
- Escalate significant delivery, architectural, security, or organizational risks early rather than allowing them to become blockers.
- Production Reliability & Continuous Improvement
- Participate in production deployments, incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis for critical systems.
- Lead technical investigations for significant production issues and ensure corrective and preventive actions are implemented.
- Partner with DevSecOps to improve observability, deployment reliability, application performance, and operational resilience.
- Proactively identify recurring problems and implement systemic improvements rather than relying on short-term fixes.
- Continuously improve engineering processes, tooling, automation, development workflows, and standards.
- Take ownership of production outcomes—not simply feature completion.
- Security & Healthcare Engineering
- Ensure secure development practices are incorporated throughout solution design and development.
- Partner with Security and DevSecOps to identify and remediate vulnerabilities and reduce technical and security risk.
- Understand the responsibilities associated with developing software that processes sensitive healthcare information.
- Ensure solutions are designed and developed consistent with applicable healthcare security, privacy, and interoperability requirements.
Knowledge and Skill Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant experience developing production full-stack applications.
- Strong proficiency with Claude and AI-assisted software development practices, with the ability to model, teach, and reinforce effective AI development practices in day-to-day engineering work.
- Demonstrated experience serving as a technical lead, team lead, or senior engineer responsible for guiding other engineers.
- Demonstrated ability and willingness to remain a hands-on software engineer while leading a team.
- Advanced proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript and modern full-stack technologies, preferably Node.js and React.
- Strong experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL and designing data-intensive applications.
- Strong understanding of API design, distributed systems, application architecture, and modern web development.
- Strong knowledge of automated testing strategies across unit, integration, system, and end-to-end testing.
- Demonstrated ability to design and deliver scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable production systems.
- Strong understanding of Git-based development workflows, pull requests, code reviews, CI/CD, and modern software delivery practices.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum product development environments.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor, coach, and provide constructive feedback to software engineers.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Experience with React, Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL.
- Experience designing and operating cloud-native applications in AWS or similar cloud environments.
- Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and distributed systems.
- Experience with observability, application performance monitoring, and production reliability practices.
- Experience improving CI/CD, test automation, developer productivity, or engineering quality metrics.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and modern DevSecOps practices.
- Experience developing software in regulated environments, particularly healthcare.
- Understanding of HIPAA, HITECH, HITRUST, SOC 2, or related security and compliance frameworks.
- Healthcare interoperability experience, including FHIR, HL7, HAPI-FHIR, or related technologies.
- Experience integrating AI/ML or generative AI capabilities into production software is a plus.
- Experience with Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, or equivalent engineering collaboration tools.
What Success Looks Like
A successful Engineering Lead:
- Remains a highly productive engineer, spending at least 60% of their time hands-on with software development and technical work.
- Leads from within the team as a player-coach rather than operating primarily as a project or people manager.
- Consistently delivers complex, high-impact initiatives while maintaining strong engineering quality.
- Develops engineers through regular coaching, feedback, mentorship, and career development discussions.
- Creates a team where automated testing and shift-left quality are fundamental parts of development rather than downstream QA activities.
- Maintains high standards for code quality and does not allow inadequate testing or technical shortcuts to become normalized.
- Provides clear technical direction without becoming a bottleneck for the team.
- Anticipates architectural, security, reliability, and delivery risks before they become significant issues.
- Removes technical and organizational blockers and holds the team accountable for delivery.
- Builds scalable solutions that balance immediate business needs with Woundtech's long-term technology strategy.
- Partners effectively with Product to balance roadmap priorities, technical debt, quality, and platform investment.
- Takes ownership of production outcomes and continuously improves the systems and engineering practices within their area.
Work Conditions
- Participate in an engineering on-call rotation and provide support for critical production issues as required.
- Occasional evening or weekend work may be required for production releases, maintenance, or critical incident response.
- Must be willing to work a flexible schedule when necessary to collaborate with Woundtech's distributed Product & Technology organization.
About Woundtech
Woundtech is a specialized wound care company that provides care to patients when and where they need it the most, including at their home. Our advanced solution reduces the time it takes to begin treatment, heal wounds, and lowers wound care costs to patients and providers leading to improved patient outcomes, and minimized hospitalizations and amputations.
At Woundtech, you will transform healthcare designing products, platform and algorithms to improve clinical outcomes and the experience for patients and providers. You’ll work on solving problems related to clinical advancement and logistics platforms to drive healthtech today and into the future.
We are highly collaborative culture and appreciate teammates who are excited about making an impact every day. Please visit us to know more
http://www.woundtech.net
