VP Software Engineering

Alignment Health is breaking the mold in conventional health care committed to serving seniors and those who need it most: the chronically ill and frail. It takes an entire team of passionate and caring people united in our mission to put the senior first. We have built a team of talented and experienced people who are passionate about transforming the lives of the seniors we serve. In this fastgrowing company you will find ample room for growth and innovation alongside the Alignment Health community. Working at Alignment Health provides an opportunity to do work that really matters not only changing lives but saving them. Together.

Alignment is an industry leader in leveraging data and technology to make members healthier provide cost savings and engage more closely with its providers members brokers customers and partners. As a member of the senior technology management team were looking for a VP of Software Engineering who is passionate about delivering high quality Data and AI powered technology products and services that will enable next generation care delivery models for seniors.

As a senior technology leadership team member the VP of Software Engineering will oversee the engineering of highquality data and AIpowered technology products. They will also serve as a strategic translator and operational integrator bridging the gap between Product Data Architecture and AI teams. This role is crucial in guiding the design of a datadriven architecture ensuring the effective deployment of AI tools and enabling scalable care delivery.

This is a handson leadership role reporting directly to the CIO and requires strong technical background thought leadership solid coding skills great team management skills and business acumen to understand the context of each solution. The role will also help ensure hyper growth and scaling of software product delivery developing and executing all phases of application development partnering with product and development leaders to optimize product delivery.

• Lead build and grow worldclass engineering teams (Enterprise Architecture Fullstack Software Engineering Mobile and DevOps) to help us deliver products & services to significantly improve healthcare experience and clinical outcomes for seniors.
• Build a nextgen integrated healthcare application ecosystem for Consumers Providers Health Plan Operations and Brokers with close partnership with Product Data Engineering and Data Science leaders. The VP will act as a liaison between the Product Data Architecture and Operations teams translating business needs into scalable and executable product and software development strategies.
• Execute strategic projects in multiple different areas simultaneously by working crossfunctionally with internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate closely with the Data Science and Data Architecture teams to translate models into usable tools that improve clinical outcomes drive decisionmaking and streamline operations across the enterprise. Design and align the development roadmap and direction of the team.
• Evaluate and own strategic technology decisions that balance near and longterm tradeoffs
• Work directly with product management and your team while analyzing and decomposing complex software requirement into simple stories for planning and .
• Be the technical leader for product features responsible for ensuring that development activities are coordinated throughout the development cycle. Work closely with Product leaders to set a longterm vision for reusable tech platforms APIs and core services that support multiple applications and stakeholder needs.
• Drive initiatives to embed realtime data analytics AI insights and intelligent workflows into operational processes enhancing automation risk stratification and care management effectiveness
• Own end to end application quality throughout the development testing and deployment phases to ensure great consumer experience and delivery expectations are met.
• Actively participate in software development activities: coding code reviews testing and production support.
• Drive engineering excellence leveraging software engineering best practices for design coding standards performance security delivery and maintainability.
• Work closely with business partners to ensure that the right capabilities are delivered. Hold regular design and architecture sessions to ensure that software solutions are optimized for operational use cases scalability and data interoperability.

Minimum Requirements:

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Minimum Experience:

10 years of Software Development experience with a proven track record of building and commercializing high quality software applications

7 years of experience leading an engineering team through multiple product/platform releases to deliver highly scalable B2B and B2C applications

Have prior experience successfully building and delivering new product/platform from the ground up.

Experience in leading complex projects that require a deep understanding of the cloud/web application architecture security and platform dependencies

Demonstrated proficiency with HTML CSS JavaScript jQuery and and LogicApss

Demonstrated proficiency in SQL and relational databases.

Experience with containers: Docker Kubernetes

Experience in Azure AWS GCP or other cloud ecosystems.

Experience in NoSQL databases.

Experience in building responsive web UIs using a modern framework including like React or Angular as well as and endtoend testing tools

Experience in design and implementation of largescale web applications APIs frameworks and databases.

Demonstrated experience designing creating testing and consuming robust and resilient APIs including REST APIs with a focus on security high availability and scalability.

Demonstrated experience with recruiting and managing worldclass technical teams including performance management

Education/Licensure:

Bachelors in Computer Science or related field

Other:

Strong computer science fundamentals indepth understanding of OOP algorithms and data structures concurrency design and serverside development.

Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to work successfully with teams across organization including other engineering teams functional operations teams and executive leadership

Demonstrated ability to effectively lead remote offshore and nearshore teams

Success delivering products/services in a highgrowth environment exhibiting strong ability to identify and solve ambiguous customerfocused problems communications

Track record of dealing well with ambiguity prioritizing needs and delivering results in an agile dynamic startup environment

Passionate about building and fostering good engineering practices and processes. Experience in following software development best practices through architectural reviews CI/CD build automation & deployment code reviews automated test frameworks and continuous performance monitoring

Excellent leadership; oral and written communication skills.

Hunger to learn and an intense technical curiosity.

Critical thinker and solutionsoriented.

Strong analytical and problemsolving skills.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Physical Functions:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee regularly is required to stand walk sit use hand to finger handle or feel objects tools or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently lifts and/or moves up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

Pay Range: $227952.00 $341928.00

Alignment Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability age protected veteran status gender identity or sexual orientation.

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