Head of Software Engineering (Remote)

Technology Strategy and Transformation

• Define and execute a multi-year technology roadmap that systematically modernizes PracticeMatchs legacy ColdFusion and SQL Server platform prioritizing migrations and rewrites based on business value risk and continuity.
• Partner with product and business leadership to align engineering priorities with PracticeMatchs competitive strategy and customer outcomes.
• Establish a pragmatic phased approach to system transformation maintaining product stability and customer commitments while executing toward a modern maintainable architecture.
• Evaluate and recommend modern technology choices (languages frameworks cloud infrastructure data platforms) that position PracticeMatch for long-term scalability.
• Champion the responsible adoption of agentic AI across the engineering lifecycle from planning design and development through testing deployment and production operations ensuring engineers build the review discipline and repository context that make AI-assisted work reliable.

Engineering Leadership and Team Development

• Lead manage and develop the PracticeMatch engineering team including direct and indirect reports across software engineering and QA functions.
• Build and sustain a culture of engineering excellence: clear standards for code quality security documentation peer review and test automation.
• Attract recruit and retain strong engineering talent; build career paths and development plans that grow engineers at every level.
• Conduct regular performance conversations; provide direct constructive feedback; and address performance issues promptly and fairly in partnership with HR.
• Foster psychological safety and a team environment where engineers can raise concerns propose improvements and learn from failure.

Engineering Execution and Delivery

• Own engineering delivery ensuring that projects are scoped well executed reliably and completed to a standard of quality the team can stand behind.
• Maintain and improve the engineering systems CI/CD pipelines automated testing deployment infrastructure quality gates and observability that allow the team to ship confidently.
• Troubleshoot complex production incidents; drive root cause analysis and durable fixes.
• Implement and refine the repository context conventions and executable plans that support effective agentic coding with tools such as Claude Code and Codex.
• Identify engineering work that can move to AI-assisted or automated workflows keeping human review in place where it protects quality accuracy and compliance.

Cross-Functional Partnership and Communication

• Serve as the primary technology partner to PracticeMatchs business and product leadership translating technical considerations into business terms and business priorities into engineering plans.
• Collaborate with M3 USAs broader technology leadership and other business unit CTOs on shared infrastructure platforms and standards.
• Communicate architecture decisions transformation progress and engineering health clearly to senior leadership including the M3 USA CEO and CHRO.
• Partner with HR on workforce planning organizational design compensation benchmarking and talent strategy for the engineering team.

Qualifications :

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related technical field or equivalent experience.
• Active engagement with M3 USAs AI training and upskilling programs; demonstrated adoption of agentic coding tools.
• 12 years of progressive software engineering experience including significant time in a hands-on technical role.
• 5 years of engineering leadership experience including direct management of engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience leading legacy system modernization or technology platform migration efforts.
• Experience in a SaaS data or platform product environment; healthcare technology or physician recruiting industry experience a plus.
• Expert-level understanding of web application architecture. Working fluency in ColdFusion and SQL Server sufficient to evaluate and guide modernization decisions. preferred.
• Strong working knowledge of modern web technologies (React or equivalent front-end frameworks RESTful APIs cloud infrastructure containerization).
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines automated test frameworks and observability systems.
• Practical knowledge of application security data privacy and compliance requirements in web products.
• Working knowledge of agentic coding tools (Claude Code Codex or equivalents) and the techniques repository context quality gates review discipline that make them reliable in production engineering.
• Proven ability to recruit manage and develop engineering talent at multiple levels.
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to present technical information to executive business and engineering audiences.
• Familiarity with the physician recruiting or healthcare data domain is an advantage.

Additional Information :

Benefits:

A career opportunity with M3USA offers competitive wages and benefits such as:

• Health and Dental
• Life Accident and Disability Insurance
• Prescription Plan
• Flexible Spending Account
• 401k Plan and Match
• Paid Holidays and Vacation
• Sick Days and Personal Day

*M3 reserves the right to change this job description to meet the business needs of the organization

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Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time