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Manager, Engineering

Purpose Med

Purpose Med

Software Engineering
Canada · Remote
Posted on Tuesday, January 23, 2024

About us:

PurposeMed was founded in 2019 with the mission of improving access to complex care for underserved communities. We’ve grown quickly in our first few years, and now our exceptional team serves thousands of patients each month across our multiple verticals.

PurposeMed consists of three complex care business units: Freddie, Frida, and Foria, and partners with Affirming Care Pharmacy. Freddie is focused on improving sexual health through education, prevention, and treatment with a focus on the LGBTQ2S+ community—we’re now the largest HIV prevention service in Canada! Our second vertical, Frida, is focused on improving mental health and happiness through education, diagnosis, and treatment. Frida is changing the lives of patients with easier access to adult ADHD diagnosis, and fast and affordable treatment. Foria was recently launched in 2023 and is a virtual clinic providing trans, non-binary, and gender-diverse Canadians with gender-affirming healthcare. Affirming Care Pharmacy is a specialty pharmacy with locations in Calgary, Alberta, and Mississauga, Ontario. This partnership provides our patients with an end-to-end healthcare experience, from treatment, to prescription delivery, to continuous affirming care.

We’re one of LinkedIn’s Top 15 Startups in Canada, the #2 Company-to-Watch in Deloitte’s prestigious Technology Fast 50® program, and a member of the Team True North® roster as one of Canada’s fastest-growing and most promising startups. Our culture is highly mission-driven; our team is passionate about bringing healthcare to those who need it most. Best of all—we have fun doing it.


Permanent, full-time opportunity

Location: Remote (Canada)

Though we have an office based in Calgary, this is a remote position that is open to candidates across Canada.

PurposeMed's office is located on the unceded and traditional territories of the peoples of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta, which includes the Blackfoot First Nation tribes of Siksika, the Piikuni, the Kainai, the Stoney Nakoda First Nations tribes of Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley and the Tsuut’ina First Nation. The city of Calgary is also homeland to the historic Northwest Métis and to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3.


Who we hope to find:

PurposeMed is looking for a Manager, Engineering who can assist our team to achieve its mission of upholding engineering standards and operational excellence, and ultimately delivering value to our patients, clinicians, and the business. Reporting into the Director, Engineering, you will join our larger Product, Design, and Engineering team. You will coach and mentor developers to help scale, maintain, and guide the technical tradeoffs between systems across our software platform.

In this role, you’ll make an impact by:

  • Guiding and mentoring members of the engineering team
  • Providing coaching in 1:1s and running performance reviews while providing ongoing guidance for the team
  • Creating a positive, diverse, and inclusive environment for your team to bring their best selves to work
  • Fostering strong relationships and effective communication with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
  • Working in close collaboration with Product, Design & Data leadership on improving PDDE’s ways of working within our POD/Triad model
  • Supporting technical strategy and working with the team on defining and setting the product’s technical direction
  • Communicating ongoing initiatives, blockers, and working with team members on prioritizing tasks that ensure our development teams are set up for success
  • Gathering requirements for improvements and translating them into architecture that leads to a scalable platform

We need someone who has:

  • 5+ years of experience in Software Engineering with a focus on platform development and infrastructure
  • Engineering management experience with direct reports, and a genuine excitement for helping to grow people's careers
  • Experience with distributed systems, cloud computing and scaling infrastructure (e.g. AWS, Docker, Kubernetes)
  • A passion for platform services, working with other developers on understanding their pain points, and ensuring they have the tools and infrastructure they need to deliver value to customers
  • Experience managing relationships with external vendors and account managers
  • Strong communication skills and an ability to work with diverse teams and stakeholders within the organization, such as Product Management, Product Design, Data, and various business stakeholders

Compensation:

  • $161,000 - $177,000 CAD a year
  • Earn stock options through our Equity Incentive Plan—connect your efforts to PurposeMed’s growth as we work together to improve the lives of our patients across North America.
  • The compensation listed above refers to a yearly base salary that may vary depending on a candidate's relevant qualifications, knowledge, competencies and work experience, and other factors including market conditions. Base pay is just one aspect of our total rewards at PurposeMed—see our other exciting benefits below!

Do you think you could be our next Manager, Engineering? We look forward to seeing your application!

Why you should join us:

  • Be part of a team of great people who don’t take themselves too seriously. While we’re serious about the problems we solve, we believe in having fun along the way.
  • Make an impact, every single day. We’re providing compassionate, affirming care to many people who have never received the proper support before.
  • Be confident in bringing your whole self to work. Inclusivity is core to how we take care of our patients, our teammates, and ourselves. We create spaces that are safe and affirming.

What we’re offering (based on full-time, permanent roles):

Work/life flexibility and time off:

  • Work flexibly within a team that’s remote friendly; we believe that work should fit around your life*
  • 20 vacation days and a team that will remind you to use them!
  • Annual winter break closure

Care for your physical and mental health:

  • Extended medical, dental, and vision care starting on your first day of work!
  • 8 wellness days
  • $500 health and wellness spending account
  • $2,000 mental health coverage with additional free online counseling through Inkblot Therapy and FeelingBetterNow mental health assessments
  • $20,000 of lifetime coverage for gender-affirming care and procedures

Investment in your learning and growth:

  • $500 learning fund to use towards courses and other professional development
  • Our unique People Potential program, in which you'll partner with your manager to identify opportunities to grow and achieve your full potential

Family care:

  • $3,400 lifetime coverage for fertility drugs
  • Parental leave program for birthing and non-birthing parents–your choice of:
    • Short term: 4 weeks off to use flexibly in your first year of parenting
    • Long-term: 13 weeks EI top-op

Eligible team members and their dependents** also receive no-cost access to PurposeMed’s services:

  • Freddie: PrEP assessment and follow-up appointments
  • Frida: ADHD assessment and follow-up appointments
  • Foria: Gender-affirming care services

If you are looking for a place that sparks your creativity, helps others, and will push you to be your best, then you’ll love PurposeMed.

PurposeMed is committed to being an equal-opportunity employer, and we highly encourage those from excluded and marginalized communities to apply. This includes groups such as (but not limited to): Indigenous, Black, and racialized communities, trans and non-binary, LGBTQ2S+, disabled, and HIV-positive people. You don’t have to check every single box above. If the job description gets you excited and you think you could contribute your expertise to our team—we hope you’ll apply!

*Most of our roles are performed virtually from home across Canada. Team members working onsite at Affirming Care pharmacies do need to be physically present.

**Permanent team members (employees) and their dependents are eligible, however, the person receiving the assessment must live in a province in which Freddie, Frida, or Foria operates, and be over the age of 18.