Beacon Biosignals
precision medicine
SeniorManager,Engineering
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“Senior Manager, Engineering at Beacon Biosignals. Skills: managing software engineering teams, data architecture, API design, reliability, performance. manage 5-7 engineers. responsible for the continued development and success of the Datastore”
What You'll Achieve.
continued development and success of the Datastore; decisions about data architecture, API design, reliability, and performance will have compounding effects across the entire Beacon product ecosystem; increase their impact at Beacon; drive continuous improvement of the team's processes and its integration with Beacon as a whole; development roadmap is outcome-oriented, current, aligned with company objectives and other teams' priorities
Industry & Context.
tackled big problems; speak to the underlying processes that drove their failures and successes; helping direct reports overcome challenges; bias towards simplicity; avoid misallocating complexity; impose structure at the right time; painfully aware of the perils of both under- and over-planning; keen sense for the bandwidth limitations, technical debt, and non-iterative processes that drag a project down; employed effective strategies for preventing/remedying these issues
This role is located in the US, asynchronous work practices support a remote experience
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
4+ years directly managing mid-sized software engineering teams, hands-on experience leading engineering teams under formal design controls (IEC 62304 or equivalent)
Nice to Have
candidates near our Boston or New York hubs
What You'll Do.
responsible for the continued development and success of the Datastore
shape the team’s technical direction
drive its engineering standards
ensure it's integrated effectively and communicating well with the rest of the organization
Coach your direct reports to pursue opportunities that increase their impact at Beacon
Develop a deep understanding of the Datastore and the broader Platform product ecosystem
actively share that context to drive continuous improvement of the team's processes and its integration with Beacon as a whole
Act as a steward of Beacon's engineering practices
maintain high bars for engineering quality
Help your team scope and prioritize tactical week-to-week work in direct connection with Beacon's wider strategic initiatives
Ensure your team's development roadmap is outcome-oriented
aligned with company objectives and other teams' priorities
and communicated clearly to stakeholders across Beacon
Own project management for team initiatives: defining scope
and setting expectations internally and externally
Partner with quality and regulatory stakeholders to ensure the team's development processes meet design control requirements without sacrificing engineering momentum
lead the team in continuously improving how it does both
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
integrated effectively and communicating well with the rest of the organization; engineers learn constantly and collaboratively; decisions incorporate feedback from stakeholders, your reports, collaborators, and historical context; communicate and follow through with it; swiftly communicate any dynamic changes with collaborators and stakeholders; empowers the decision-making abilities of your reports, collaborators, and stakeholders; Partner with quality and regulatory stakeholders; deep empathy towards colleagues, stakeholders, users, and patients
Communication Scope
communicating well with the rest of the organization; communicated clearly to stakeholders across Beacon; communicate and follow through with it; swiftly communicate any dynamic changes with collaborators and stakeholders
Process & Methodology
scope and prioritize tactical week-to-week work, defining scope, managing timelines, setting expectations internally and externally, planning horizon of any given project, estimation accuracy drop off over time
Full Job Description
Beacon Biosignals is on a mission to revolutionize precision medicine for the brain. We are the leading at-home EEG platform supporting clinical development of novel therapeutics for neurological, psychiatric, and sleep disorders. Our FDA 510(k)-cleared Dreem EEG headband and AI algorithms enable quantitative biomarker discovery and implementation. Beacon’s Clinico-EEG database contains EEG data from nearly 100,000 patients, and our cloud-native analytics platform powers large-scale RWD/RWE retrospective and predictive studies. Beacon Biosignals is changing the way that patients are treated for any disorder that affects brain physiology. The Beacon Datastore is the heart of Beacon's platform, serving as the foundational data layer that every tool, service, and application depends on. As a Senior Manager, Engineering reporting to the VP of Platform, you'll manage 5-7 engineers and will be responsible for the continued development and success of the Datastore. Your team’s decisions about data architecture, API design, reliability, and performance will have compounding effects across the entire Beacon product ecosystem. You’ll be expected to shape the team’s technical direction, drive its engineering standards, and ensure it's integrated effectively and communicating well with the rest of the organization. Beacon’s asynchronous work practices support a strong remote experience, with in-person hubs in Boston, New York, and Paris. The Platform domain is distributed across American and European time zones. This role is located in the US, with a preference for candidates near our Boston or New York hubs. What success looks like As a successful engineering manager at Beacon, you'll... Coach your direct reports to pursue opportunities that increase their impact at Beacon, and guide them through the challenges they encounter along the way. Develop a deep understanding of the Datastore and the broader Platform product ecosystem, and actively share that context to drive continu
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