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SoftWriters, Inc.

Senior Software Engineer

Pittsburgh, PA · Hybrid

$118K - $156K/yr

Director, Software Engineering What You'll Do Lead complex, full-stack software development across our Microsoft tech stack Collaborate with architects and senior team members to implement innovative ...

Softwriters

Senior Software Engineer

Pittsburgh, PA · On-site

$118K - $156K/yr

Director, Software Engineering What You'll Do Lead complex, full-stack software development across our Microsoft tech stack Collaborate with architects and senior team members to implement innovative ...

RFA Engineering

Embedded Software Engineer II

Pittsburgh, PA · On-site

$100K - $120K/yr

... direct hire by our customers, and additional opportunities within our own organization. Embedded ... Collaborate with machine, systems, software, and validation teams located across global engineering ...

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Woolpert

Senior Software Engineer

Pittsburgh, PA · Hybrid

$118K - $156K/yr

This position reports to the Director of Product and AI. Atlas Labs oversees technology development ... Software Engineering, and GIS. * Collaborate with internal and external users to ensure the ...

Belcan, LLC

Embedded Software Engineer 2

Pittsburgh, PA · On-site

$52.38/hr

Job Title: Embedded Software Engineer 2 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Zip Code: 15201 Duration: 12 ... or direct others in coding descriptions. * Analyze and enhance efficiency, stability and ...

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A Director Software Engineer is a senior leadership role responsible for overseeing multiple software development teams and driving the technical vision for an organization. They collaborate with other executives to align engineering initiatives with business goals and ensure high-quality software delivery. Their responsibilities often include strategic planning, mentoring engineering managers, setting technical standards, and managing budgets. This role requires extensive experience in software engineering as well as strong leadership and communication skills.

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As a Director Software Engineer, you'll often find yourself balancing hands-on technical oversight with strategic team leadership. This means guiding architectural decisions, reviewing code, and setting engineering best practices, while also mentoring team leads, supporting professional development, and managing performance. It's common to spend time aligning engineering efforts with business goals, collaborating with product and design teams, and removing roadblocks for your teams. Success in this role comes from strong communication skills, delegation, and an ability to build a healthy engineering culture alongside delivering technical excellence.

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Director, Software Engineering

Pittsburgh, PA • On-site

TeleTracking Technologies, Inc.
IT Services • 201 - 500 employees
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$245K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

Re-posted 5 days ago

Job description

About us
TeleTracking began with a simple but powerful belief that no one should wait for the care they need. More than a slogan, it's a promise to continually improve healthcare.
TeleTracking builds groundbreaking technology incorporating deep clinical expertise. Our solutions are used in the nation's largest healthcare systems and around the world to positively impact patients, families and communities.
What's your contribution to the TeleTracking story?
When you chose to bring your passion and skills to helping achieve our purpose, you'll be part of a team that understands that there's a human life behind every data point. Your skills, curiosity, and compassion-will help fuel our innovation and achieve the TeleTracking promise of revolutionizing modern healthcare.
About the role
The Director, Software Engineering provides technical and organizational leadership for one or more strategic software products and platforms that support TeleTracking's mission of improving access to care and optimizing healthcare operations. This role is accountable for engineering execution, software architecture, operational excellence, talent development, and cross-functional delivery.
The Director partners closely with Product Management, Architecture, Customer Success, Clinical Operations, and Executive Leadership to ensure technology investments deliver measurable customer and business outcomes. While responsible for leading and growing a team of engineers, this role remains actively engaged in technical decision-making, architecture reviews, engineering best practices, and delivery execution.
This position has end-to-end ownership of engineering delivery for assigned products and platforms, including technical strategy, resource management, roadmap execution, operational health, and continuous improvement initiatives.
What you will do
  • Lead and develop a team of software engineers through coaching, mentoring, performance management, and career development planning.
  • Provide technical leadership through participation in architecture reviews, technical design discussions, and engineering decision-making.
  • Partner with Product Management and business stakeholders to define roadmaps, prioritize investments, and deliver customer-focused solutions.
  • Establish engineering standards, development practices, and operational processes that promote scalability, maintainability, security, and reliability.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on engineering effectiveness, software quality, operational excellence, and delivery predictability.
  • Develop and maintain key engineering, delivery, reliability, and operational metrics to measure team and platform performance.
  • Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, continuous learning, and technical excellence.
  • Collaborate across Engineering, Product, Customer Success, Clinical Operations, and Executive Leadership to align technical priorities with business objectives.
  • Represent Engineering in customer discussions, escalations, strategic initiatives, and executive planning activities as needed.
  • Drive adoption of modern engineering practices, automation, and AI-assisted software development capabilities.

What we look for
  • Experience leading software engineering teams responsible for delivering enterprise-scale software applications and platforms.
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, event-driven architectures, microservices, APIs, and modern software development practices.
  • Experience operating software in cloud-based production environments with responsibility for reliability, scalability, observability, and security.
  • Experience leading technical design reviews and guiding architecture decisions across complex systems.
  • Experience partnering with Product Management and business stakeholders to translate business objectives into technical strategies and execution plans.
  • Experience building, coaching, and developing engineering talent.
  • Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Experience with Java, C#, Scala, Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
  • Preferred experience in healthcare technology, HL7, FHIR, patient flow, or healthcare operations.
  • Strong understanding of software development methodologies, engineering life cycles, and organizational scaling practices.
  • Ability to translate business strategy into technical direction and executable engineering plans.
  • Ability to influence senior leadership and drive outcomes through collaboration.
  • Excellent communication, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Education
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (required).
  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (preferred).

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future.
Benefits
  • Employee Medical/dental/vision premiums paid 100% - family members without coverage Medical 100% - small cost for dependents on dental and vision, which start from day one!
  • Life and AD&D
  • Flexible Spending Accounts: Medical, Dependent Care, and Transportation
  • 401 (k) Retirement Savings
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Military Paid Leave (up to 6 months of base salary while on military leave)
  • Paid Time Off
  • Paid parental leave

Disclaimer:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The term "qualified individual with a disability" means an individual with a disability who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of the position.
TeleTracking is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. TeleTracking recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, marital status, or citizenship status.
Recruiting agencies, please do not submit unsolicited referrals for this or any open role. We have a roster of agencies with whom we partner, and we will not pay any fee associated with unsolicited referrals.

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