At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team to build and maintain cutting-edge frontend architecture for healthcare products.
- Company: Join Heidi Health, a pioneering healthtech startup transforming patient care with AI.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible work, wellness days, personal development budget, and equity options.
- Other info: Fast-track your career in a dynamic environment focused on innovation and growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in healthcare while working with a diverse, talented team.
- Qualifications: 8-10 years of engineering management experience and strong technical leadership skills.
Heidi is on a mission to halve the time it takes to deliver world-class care. We believe that by 2050, every clinician will practice with AI systems that free them from administrative burdens and increase the quality and accessibility of care to patients across the world. Built for clinicians, by clinicians, at the core of Heidi is its people. We are an eclectic bunch of inventors, builders, scientists, nurses, doctors, mathematicians, designers, creatives, and high-agency executors.
The Client Platform Engineering Manager is responsible for leading the team that builds and maintains the foundational frontend architecture across Heidi’s products — including desktop, mobile, and web clients. This team owns the design system, component library, build tooling, and platform capabilities that enable product teams to ship high-quality, accessible, and consistent user experiences.
You’ll lead a small, high-leverage team that works horizontally across pods to drive technical excellence, reduce duplication, and unlock developer velocity across our client surfaces. You’ll work cross-functionally with product, solutions engineering, and sales to ensure enterprise features are delivered with reliability and velocity. You’ll also help shape how Heidi scales its platform to support increasingly complex customer environments without compromising developer productivity.
What you'll do:
- Own Heidi’s Frontend Platform: Lead the technical strategy, development, and maintenance of core client infrastructure — including the design system, shared UI components, performance tooling, and accessibility standards.
- Drive Developer Productivity: Build tooling and abstractions that improve the day-to-day experience of frontend engineers and allow product teams to focus on feature development.
- Unify Cross-Platform Experiences: Collaborate with design and product to ensure consistent, performant experiences across desktop, mobile, and web clients.
- Foster Technical Excellence: Champion best practices in frontend architecture, testing, performance, and accessibility across the org.
- Support Teams Through Change: Guide the org through architectural migrations or upgrades (e.g., framework changes, mobile app refactors), ensuring business continuity and minimal disruption.
- Lead and Develop the Team: Hire, mentor, and support engineers on the Client Platform team, setting clear expectations and fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, and growth.
What we’ll look for:
- 8–10+ years of engineer management experience, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership or management role.
- Proven track record building and scaling production systems in cloud environments (preferably AWS).
- Deep knowledge of infrastructure automation, CI/CD tooling, containerization, and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Expertise in monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog).
- Experience with secrets management, service mesh, and distributed systems.
- Strong knowledge of security best practices and compliance requirements in healthcare.
- Comfort with scripting languages such as Python or Bash.
- Bonus: Experience in healthtech, startups, or regulated industries.
Why you’ll flourish working with us:
- Flexible work with a hybrid environment.
- Additional paid day off for your birthday and wellness days.
- Discounted corporate gym memberships.
- A generous personal development budget of $500 per annum.
- Learn from some of the best engineers and creatives, joining a diverse team.
- Become an owner, with shares (equity) in the company; if Heidi wins, we all win.
- The rare chance to create a global impact as you immerse yourself in one of Australia’s leading healthtech startups.
- If you have an impact quickly, the opportunity to fast track your startup career!
- Help us reimagine primary care and change the face of healthcare in Australia and then around the world.
Software Engineering Manager in Sydney employer: Heidi Health
Heidi Health is an exceptional employer that prioritises meaningful work and employee well-being, offering a dynamic startup environment where your contributions directly enhance patient care. With a strong focus on professional growth, employees benefit from generous learning budgets, wellness allowances, and flexible work arrangements, all while collaborating with a passionate team dedicated to transforming healthcare. Join us in making a real-world impact, where your efforts are valued and recognised in a culture that champions innovation and resilience.
