Akido builds AI-powered doctors. Akido is the first AI-native care provider, combining cutting-edge technology with a nationwide medical network to address America’s physician shortage and make exceptional healthcare universal. Its AI empowers doctors to deliver faster, more accurate, and more compassionate care.

Serving 500K+ patients across California, Rhode Island, and New York, Akido offers primary and specialty care in 26 specialties—from servingunhoused communitiesin Los Angeles toride-share driversin New York.

Founded in 2015 (YC W15), Akido is expanding its risk-bearing care models and scalingScopeAI, its breakthrough clinical AI platform. Read more about Akido’s $60M Series B. More info at Akidolabs.com.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a distributed team of 5–7 full-stack, frontend, and backend engineers. This role is ideal for someone with proven experience managing engineering teams, who has also thrived as a senior or principal-level individual contributor in a strong engineering culture. You will be responsible for guiding technical direction, driving execution, and ensuring operational excellence while fostering growth and collaboration across your team and the broader engineering organization.

What You'll Do

Lead, mentor, and coach a team of full-stack, frontend, and backend engineers.

Drive delivery of high-quality, customer-facing product features and improvements.

Provide strong technical oversight through design reviews, code reviews, and process adherence.

Contribute to small coding tasks or proof-of-concepts as needed.

Identify technical risks, areas of refactoring, and opportunities for improving developer productivity and software quality.

Ensure operational excellence in production, including reliability, scalability, and performance.

Partner with product, design, and other stakeholders to align priorities and execution.

Recruit, interview, and onboard new engineering team members, including offshore and nearshore contractors.

Influence and elevate engineering practices across the broader organization, not just within your direct team.

Who You Are

5+ years in software development with recent Senior/Principal-level experience
6+ months of engineering management experience
Proven success managing remote, distributed teams
Strong full-stack technical background:
- Frontend: React, TypeScript
- Backend: Node.js, NestJS
- Infra: AWS, microservices
Experience building core or customer-facing products
High ownership with a track record of delivering complex projects
Excellent cross-functional communication and collaboration skills
Strong people leadership: mentoring, coaching, conflict resolution, team building
Ability to set and influence technical best practices across teams

Benefits

Remote-first role.
Stock-options package

Health benefits include medical, dental and vision
401K
Long-term disability
Unlimited PTO
Life insurance
Paid Leave Program

Salary range

$200,000

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$250,000 USD

Akido Labs, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage qualified applicants of every background, ability, and life experience to contact us about appropriate employment opportunities.

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