Senior Engineering Manager

Color Health is revolutionizing cancer care with the nation’s first Virtual Cancer Clinic, delivering high-quality, physician-led multidisciplinary care across all 50 states. Our innovative, guideline-based approach spans cancer screening, risk assessment, prevention, diagnosis, treatment support, and survivorship. In addition to personalized direct medical care, our services include cancer genetics risk assessment, nutrition, mental health support and at-home cancer screening diagnostics. Using technology-driven, patient-centric solutions, Color is transforming how employers, unions, health plans, and governments address cancer. Color’s goal is to close critical cancer care gaps, improve cancer outcomes, and guide patients with empathy through their healthcare journeys.

Apply to join Color and do the most meaningful work of your career. If you are not sure that you’re 100% qualified but are up for the challenge - we want you to apply!

About The Role

You will lead a team at the center of how Color delivers care at scale. As a Senior Engineering Manager on Care Operations, you will shape the systems that power our clinicians and care teams — enabling high-quality, accessible healthcare for millions of people.This is a high-ownership role. You will define technical direction, drive execution across complex workflows, and help evolve our care delivery platform in a fast-moving, startup environment. Your work will directly influence how quickly we can launch new programs, integrate AI into care operations, and improve patient experience.If you’re motivated by building systems that matter — and doing it in a pragmatic, high-autonomy environment — this role is for you!

How You'll Contribute::
• Lead and grow a team of engineers, setting clear direction and creating a culture of ownership and accountability
• Define and evolve the architecture of our care operations platform to support scale, reliability, and rapid iteration
• Partner closely with product, clinical, data, and operations leaders to translate complex healthcare workflows into simple, high-leverage systems
• Drive pragmatic adoption of AI and automation to increase care team efficiency and unlock new capabilities
• Balance speed and durability in a regulated environment, making thoughtful tradeoffs that support long-term scalability
• Develop senior engineers into technical leaders through structured feedback, coaching, and delegation of meaningful ownership
• Improve system observability, quality, and operational excellence so internal teams can depend on our tools every day
• Contribute to broader engineering strategy, prioritization, and cross-team alignment as a senior engineering leader

Our Ideal Candidate Will Have::
• 8+ years of experience building and shipping production systems in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
• 3+ years of experience managing engineers, including senior engineers and/or multiple teams
• Experience operating in startup or high-growth environments where leaders are expected to define strategy and execute
• A track record of delivering cross-functional initiatives from concept through iteration
• Strong technical judgment across backend systems, APIs, and frontend applications (experience with Python/Django, React, AWS, and SQL is a plus)
• Experience introducing AI-enabled tooling or workflow automation into production systems
• Demonstrated success developing engineers through direct feedback, growth planning, and sponsorship
• Ability to communicate technical tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical partners

Nice to Have::
• Experience working with EHR applications
• Experience integrating LLM based features into tools teams owned to automate tasks and unlock efficiencies
• Experience integrating with 3rd party systems

Possible Projects to Contribute to::
• Redesign and scale our patient messaging platform to support personalized, AI-augmented care journeys
• Embed AI-driven automation into care workflows to significantly increase care team capacity without sacrificing quality
• Evolve our headless EHR layer into a flexible, extensible platform that accelerates new care programs

What We Offer::
• 💰 Competitive salary
• ✨ Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
• 📈 401k match
• 📝 Monthly phone and wifi stipend for employees, annual ergonomic stipend
• 🏝 Generous vacation policy, paid holidays and company-wide recharge days
• 🍼 Equal paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
• Free cancer screening and prevention resources for employees and their adult dependents

Location: Hybrid (2-3 days/week) at our South SF, CA headquarters

The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: work experience, market data, skills, geographic location, and business need. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for equity and benefits.

Color prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Color conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified applicants with disabilities in our recruitment process.