Senior Manager Director of Engineering, Consumer
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San Francisco, CA - USA
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Job Summary
Nourish is on a mission to improve peoples health by making it easy to eat well. Nutrition-related chronic disease is the largest and most overlooked crisis in the world and food can be medicine. Were building an AI-native patient-friendly healthcare system centered on nutritionlive in all 50 states with thousands of dietitians and hundreds of thousands of patients on the platform.
Weve partnered with national health insurers and provider groups raised substantial funding from top-tier investors and are rapidly scaling our teams to build technology that transforms how people engage with their health.
In 2026 we raised a $100M Series C bringing total funding to $215M. The round was led byMenlo Ventures with participation fromThrive CapitalIndex VenturesJ.P. Morgan Growth Equity PartnersMaverick VenturesY CombinatorBoxGroupAtomicoDaybreak andOperator Partners.
Learn more about our Series C here: Nourish Blog Bloomberg Fierce Healthcare Digital Native The Pulse Podcast.
This is not a job for everyone. We hold an extremely high bar because we believe talent density is our biggest competitive advantage. Were looking for people who actively choose hard ambiguous problems who run toward unglamorous work give and receive candid feedback and bring relentless resilience without the ego. Our work is important but we are not self-important. We do this because were solving one of the hardest problems in the world and the problem matters. If thats you we disproportionately reward it.
Nourish is seeking a deeply technical product-minded engineering leader to lead Consumer. Reporting to our Head of Engineering youll shape the organization building our world-class consumer app and the technology-enabled care model that will let dietitians serve larger patient populations and unlock entirely new ways to improve health outcomes.
Youll lead through both strategy and execution: setting a multi-year technical and product direction developing managers and engineers creating the operating structure for a growing organization and personally diving into the hardest technical and product problems.
This is a full-time role. We strongly prefer candidates based in New York City or San Francisco with exceptions for truly exceptional candidates. Check out Engineering at Nourish to learn more about our team and what weve already built.
- Build lead and develop a high-performing team of 8-12 engineers across multiple teams with strong technical ownership.
- Coach engineers through regular feedback career development calibration and performance management.
- Scale the team through recruiting interviewing hiring and onboarding.
- Stay hands-on through architecture pair programming coding code reviews and on-call.
- Partner with product and design to write requirements shape roadmaps scope work plan sprints and deliver measurable outcomes.
- Drive thoughtful decisions around system design code quality observability reliability and scalability.
- Establish effective team rituals including sprint planning OKR planning and reporting quarterly planning and retrospectives.
- Operate with urgency and sound judgment in a fast-paced ambiguous environment.
- Set the technical product and organizational strategy for Nourishs consumer experience.
- Build an AI-powered health companion that delivers personalized proactive guidancenot simply tracking.
- Evolve the care model by putting more technology in the loop while preserving excellent patient outcomes and trust.
- Partner with executive product design clinical and analytics leaders on long-range planning and investment decisions.
- Design an organization that can grow into multiple consumer pods without losing speed quality or accountability.
- Have 6 years of professional software engineering experience with modern full-stack technologies and 4 years of hands-on engineering management experience.
- Have hired engineers and managed performance promotions and career development.
- Remain technical enough to pair program with your team and contribute directly when needed.
- Bring exceptional product judgment: you can write a PRD critique or mock a design size an opportunity and make progress without waiting on a PM.
- Are highly proficient with React TypeScript PostgreSQL or similar modern stacks.
- Have shipped and owned production systems in a fast-moving ambiguous environment.
- Balance people leadership with technical depth delivery focus and clear communication.
- Are energized by Nourishs mission to improve peoples health by making it easy to eat well.
- Experience leading multiple teams or managers.
- AI-powered consumer products.
- React Native and mobile platforms.
- Healthcare or regulated technology.
- Scaling an engineering organization through rapid growth.
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About Company
Achieve your desired health and wellness through personalized nutrition counseling. Nourish is the easiest way to find a registered dietitian and get it covered by your insurance. Find a dietitian today and start your telehealth appointments.
