About Wheel:

Wheel is powering virtual care. We are a healthcare technology company bringing together both the tech infrastructure and the clinicians to power many of the industry’s leading telehealth services. By enabling more companies and clinicians to participate in virtual care, Wheel is helping to connect patients to the best care for their health needs.

We’re a hybrid-remote company with a hub in Austin, Texas, and we are proud to have been recently named one of Built In Austin’s Best Places to Work and Best Small Company to Work For. Wheel is backed by top investors; Lightspeed Venture Partners, CRV, Tusk Ventures, and Silverton Partners. We’re looking for new Wheelies who share a passion for making a positive difference in healthcare and feel connected to our core values. 

Learn more about what we are building in Forbes.

Our Values

We believe we can help build a future for everyone by ensuring how we work is aligned with our core values of:

Further, together 

Empathy, everyday

Be trusted

Grit to grow

High Velocity.

To learn more about how we work, check out our careers page.

Position Summary 

As the Director of Engineering at Wheel, you’ll be responsible for building software and running teams that are critical to the success of the company. You will lay the foundation for our engineering team, focused on creating technology platforms and products to support our mission to become the infrastructure of Virtual Care. In this position, you will work across the entire company, and closely with clients to define and deliver your goals. The majority of your work would be ‘green field’ with the opportunity to be part of defining best-in-class solutions to virtual care problems. You are a true people leader; someone who believes in “we” before “me” and your team’s motivation, growth, and wellbeing first. You are self-motivated, versatile, compassionate, and can work equally well in highly collaborative settings as well as those with little direction. 

Responsibilities 

- Support, mentor, and grow your engineers to help them continuously improve

- Ensure we’re constantly moving our product forward in a build-learn-iterate model

- Mentor and guide team in best practices for modern web products and distributed systems

- Be ‘hands on’ - coding alongside your teams

- Collaborate with product, design, and leadership to ideate and develop winning products that help move the business forward

- Design, build, deploy and maintain systems and user experiences that scale with a high growth company

- Take ownership of new features, big and small, analyzing system and business metrics post-release

Qualifications 

- 8+ years of management experience, running multiple teams simultaneously

- You are a collaborative engineer and an empathetic person who works well within a diverse company

- 10+ years experience full-stack development, building real-world web applications in production environments

- You can operate autonomously and have a strong desire to make an impact

- Exemplary communication skills; able to explain possible solutions to non-technical team members

- Bonus points if you have prior startup experience or have experience building highly scalable products. Growth startup experience - series A/B would be ideal

- Proven ability to learn new technologies quickly

- Thrives in a collaborative, diverse environment 

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

At Wheel, we know we will go further together by celebrating diversity and that starts by honoring each of our unique lived experiences. We look for a diverse pool of applicants including those from historically marginalized groups: women, people with disabilities, people of color, formerly incarcerated people, people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or gender non-conforming, first and second-generation immigrants, veterans and people from different socioeconomic background. We are committed to ensuring a safe work environment where employees are not discriminated against based on age, race, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer that believes in health, equity, equality, and prosperity for all so we can succeed in changing the way healthcare works.