Remote OR Oakland, CA Hybrid Full-time

Crescendo Health is hiring a Product Engineering Lead

About the Role

Lead the design and delivery of product-driven engineering initiatives, ensuring alignment between technical architecture, user requirements, and business goals in a high-impact healthcare environment.

Responsibilities

  • Direct the end-to-end development lifecycle for core product features
  • Collaborate with product managers to define roadmap priorities and technical feasibility
  • Mentor and grow engineers through regular feedback and career development
  • Establish engineering standards for code quality, testing, and system reliability
  • Drive technical decision-making across frontend, backend, and infrastructure layers
  • Translate clinical and operational workflows into scalable software solutions
  • Lead incident response and post-mortem reviews to improve system resilience
  • Work closely with UX designers to ensure intuitive and accessible interfaces
  • Evaluate and integrate third-party tools and APIs relevant to healthcare systems
  • Ensure compliance with data privacy and security standards such as HIPAA
  • Optimize deployment pipelines for speed and safety in production environments
  • Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement
  • Monitor key engineering metrics and report on team performance
  • Coordinate with clinical stakeholders to validate solution effectiveness
  • Balance innovation with technical debt reduction across the codebase

Nice to Have

  • Master’s degree in a technical or healthcare-related discipline
  • Experience with real-time data processing systems
  • Background in clinical or health services operations
  • Contributions to open-source projects or technical communities
  • Prior work with EHR or patient-facing health platforms

Compensation

Competitive salary with equity and benefits package

Work Arrangement

Hybrid remote with preferred presence in major US hubs

Team

Product-focused engineering team in a fast-growing health technology startup

Our Mission

We are building technology to improve access and outcomes in specialty healthcare by streamlining complex workflows and empowering care teams.

Culture & Values

We value deep ownership, empathy for users, scientific rigor, and transparency across all levels of the organization.

Growth Opportunities

This role will shape the future of the engineering team and influence company-wide technical strategy as we scale.

Available for qualified candidates

About company
Crescendo Health
Crescendo Health is a venture-backed startup from a seasoned team. We work with sponsors of clinical trials to accelerate medical innovation and fight disease. The time has come to build a new generation of clinical research that makes use of real world health data, so that new treatments can be developed quickly and safely for those in need. and trial evidence reflects the diversity of our population. Our experienced team includes deep startup, healthcare, and clinical trials experience. Our CEO previously co-founded Datavant, a company that helps connect de-identified health data (merged with Ciox Health for >$7 billion in 2021). Our chief medical officer was previously Dean of Research at Stanford and Chief of General Medicine at Stanford; our Chief Medical Informatics Officer led informatics at the VA. We have experience from places like BlackSky, Zillow, Quartet Health, Included Health, Opower, Castlight, Canvas Medical, and more. We recently raised substantial funding from top-tier investors and are expanding our team.
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