Director, Software Engineering
United States
Software Development - Technology - Development /
Full Time /
Remote
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HHAeXchange is one of the healthcare industry's fastest-growing healthcare software solution providers. Founded by professionals with deep experience in software development and healthcare, our platforms support post-acute payers and providers seeking innovative yet cost-effective ways to deliver better service to patients while maintaining compliance with rapidly changing regulations.
We are seeking a Director of Software Engineering to join our R&D organization and provide leadership across teams delivering capabilities for both the HHAeXchange Enterprise platform and Sandata SaaS solutions. This role is responsible for ensuring teams execute consistently across engineering delivery, quality, security, performance, reliability, and production operations. The Director will partner closely with Product, Architecture, QA, and Operations leadership to deliver scalable outcomes while continuously improving platform stability and engineering effectiveness.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
This is a fully remote opportunity for candidates located in the EST or CST time zones within the US only.
Essential Job Duties
Own engineering delivery, maintenance, and production operations responsibilities for assigned areas across the HHAeXchange SaaS platforms.
Deliver new features and optimize existing components with focus on code quality, scalability, performance, security, stability, and maintainability.
Ensure effective incident response, troubleshooting, and operational execution for production systems.
Establish clear accountability and execution standards across engineering teams.
Provide leadership across multiple engineering teams, including engineering managers, tech leads, and individual contributors.
Drive predictable delivery through strong planning, prioritization, and execution discipline.
Set expectations for performance and accountability across teams.
Coach leaders and engineers through mentorship, feedback, and professional development.
Drive modernization and platform evolution, including cloud and architectural improvements.
Advance cloud-native principles and best practices in new development and enhancements.
Partner with architecture leadership to ensure system designs meet enterprise standards.
Promote continuous improvement through refactoring, technical debt reduction, and platform upgrades.
Lead engineering governance and operational readiness, ensuring consistency and quality across releases.
Participate in or support architecture review and design review processes.
Ensure proper release planning, change management, and production readiness practices.
Establish effective standards for deployment quality, rollback readiness, and operational support coverage.
Drive development and adoption of AI-enabled capabilities across the HHAeXchange SaaS platforms.
Partner with Product, Architecture, and Data/AI stakeholders to identify and deliver high-impact AI use cases that improve operational efficiency, compliance, and customer outcomes.
Ensure AI features are built with strong standards for quality, performance, security, privacy, and reliability.
Lead adoption of AI-assisted SDLC tools and practices to improve engineering velocity and effectiveness (e.g., Cursor and other modern AI coding tools).
Establish best practices, guardrails, and repeatable workflows for AI-supported development, testing, code review, and documentation.
Measure and improve productivity and quality outcomes through responsible use of AI tooling while maintaining engineering standards and maintainability.
Work closely with VP, Software Engineering and CTO to formulate strategies and execute the vision.
Collaborate with Product Managers on future product strategy.
Collaborate and work with the team with a positive and open-minded attitude.
Share domain and technical expertise, providing technical mentorship and cross-training to other peers and team members.
Enable automation of configuration management of development, quality assurance, and production environments as well as automation of continuous integration and continuous delivery.
Supervise training and development of software engineering staff.
Support recruiting engineering personnel, technical staffing, and project teams' formation.
Other Job Duties
Travel Requirements
Required Education, Experience, Certifications and Skills
The base salary range for this US-based, full-time, and exempt position is $189,000-208,000/yr, not including variable compensation. An employee's exact starting salary will be based on various factors including but not limited to experience, education, training, merit, location, and the ability to exemplify the HHAeXchange core values.
This is a benefits-eligible position. HHAeXchange offers competitive health plans, paid time-off, company paid holidays, 401K retirement program with a Company elected match, including other company sponsored programs.
HHAeXchange is an equal-opportunity employer. The Company offers employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, citizenship, genetic information, hairstyles, or any other status protected by local or federal law.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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