Director of Engineering, Foundations

Atria Institute

. Lead the Foundations group comprising Platform, DevOps, and Data Engineering teams.

Posted 10/6/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • United StatesLead💰 $230,000 - $290,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive leadership in software engineering, with a focus on managing cross-functional teams and driving technical strategy across platform, data, and cloud infrastructure. Proficient in establishing engineering standards and fostering a culture of feedback while ensuring operational health and security compliance.

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10+ Years Software Engineering ExperienceLeadership Experience Managing Engineering TeamsSystems-Design Background in Backend InfrastructureHands-On Familiarity with TypeScript/Node.jsExperience in Digital Health or Regulated Technology Sectors

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Hard Skills

Technical StrategyArchitecture ReviewsData ArchitecturePlatform ReliabilityCost OptimizationIncident Response GovernanceCapacity PlanningAI-Assisted Engineering WorkflowsIntegration PatternsData Pipelines

Soft Skills

MentoringTalent DevelopmentSystems ThinkingDecision-Making in Ambiguous EnvironmentsFeedback Culture

Tools & Technologies

Google Cloud PlatformTerraformDatadogSentryMixpanelSnowflakeDbtElectronic Health Record (EHR) PlatformsWearable API Ecosystems

Industry Keywords

HIPAAPHISOC 2HITRUSTDigital HealthHealth Data Infrastructure

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptMySQLNode.jsPostgresTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead the Foundations group comprising Platform, DevOps, and Data Engineering teams.
Own the technical strategy, roadmap, health, and output of the Foundations group.
Maintain end-to-end accountability for complex, multi-team initiatives including EMR integrations, MySQL-to-Postgres migration, background jobs, feature flags, and data platform enhancements.
Own reliability, security, and operational health of platform, data, and cloud infrastructure.
Manage SLOs, capacity planning, on-call rotations, alerting, and incident response governance.
Serve as the primary escalation and request path into Foundations.
Partner with Product Engineering and Data & Analytics leadership to anticipate infrastructure needs and build scalable solutions.
Work cross-functionally with product, data, clinical, security, and executive stakeholders.
Own architectural direction across integration patterns, caching infrastructure, shared services, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure.
Act as the senior technical escalation point for complex engineering challenges and lead architecture and design reviews.
Champion AI-assisted engineering workflows and establish related patterns, tooling, and guardrails.
Establish engineering standards, architectural patterns, code conventions, and documentation practices.
Own hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development across Foundations.
Mentor engineers and Tech Leads.
Champion observability and telemetry standards using Datadog, Sentry, and Mixpanel.
Drive post-incident reviews and systemic improvements.
Create structures to measure what the team builds and raise the standard of work over time.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of software engineering experience, including significant leadership experience managing engineering teams and Tech Leads/managers.
Track record of developing talent and raising team performance over time.
Demonstrated track record leading multiple teams across platform, infrastructure, or data domains in production, and driving technical strategy, architecture, and execution for complex, cross-functional initiatives.
Strong systems-design background spanning backend infrastructure, platform reliability, data architecture, security/compliance, and cost optimization.
Deep enough to lead architecture reviews and earn the technical respect of senior and staff engineers.
Hands-on familiarity with TypeScript/Node.js, Google Cloud Platform and Terraform, and enterprise data warehousing and pipelines (Snowflake, dbt).
Active, fluent use of AI tools in your own workflow, with a clear point of view on how an engineering organization should adopt them responsibly.
Demonstrated ability to own outcomes end-to-end in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
Strong systems thinking - ability to see how decisions ripple across users, teams, and products.
Evidence of developing and supporting a robust culture of feedback - including giving and receiving it.
Ability to make decisions with incomplete information and bring teams along.
Prior experience in digital health or other regulated technology sectors (HIPAA, PHI, SOC 2, HITRUST) preferred.
Direct experience integrating Electronic Health Record (EHR) platforms (e.g., Athena), health data infrastructure, or wearable API ecosystems preferred.
Experience establishing AI-assisted engineering workflows at a team or organization level preferred.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Excellent health and wellness benefits, fully covered by Atria, effective date of hire
OneMedical membership for employees & dependents, giving access to 24/7 virtual care
Fertility & family planning
Company-covered preventive health screenings through partner hospitals (calcium score)
Fitness Perks, including Wellhub +
401k contributions and 4% match starting after 6 months
Flexible Time Off
Continuing medical education (CME) and CEU support for professional licensure