About the Role
Aetonix is a digital health company building a chronic care management platform for U.S. health systems, clinics, and ACOs. The next 6 months are about proving product-market fit with real clinical evidence in a category where fewer than 4% of eligible U.S. patients are currently receiving the care they are entitled to.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end software development process and lead engineering squads.
- Manage delivery cadence, team development, process discipline, and agile health.
- Orchestrate sprint planning, retrospectives, and other agile processes across squads.
- Identify and resolve delivery blockers using data and delivery metrics.
- Run structured 1:1s, performance conversations, and career development plans for developers and QA.
- Build squad-level capability and culture in partnership with tech leads.
- Own hiring and onboarding for development roles.
- Establish and maintain engineering process standards: coding standards, definition of done, PR review policies, defect triage, and change management.
- Own QA and release coordination in partnership with the QA manager.
- Drive compliance-aware engineering practices that keep SOC2 Type 2 policies intact.
- Champion responsible adoption of AI coding tools across squads.
- Partner with product management and design to align priorities, sequence work, and keep delivery moving.
- Own the translation of product requirements into engineering commitments.
- Identify and resolve cross-functional blockers.
- Represent engineering in cross-functional forums.
- Partner with the CTO and Director of Architecture on technical road mapping and long-term technical strategy.
- Translate architectural decisions and strategic direction into squad-level execution plans.
Requirements
- 5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including direct management of multiple teams or squads simultaneously.
- Track record of improving delivery predictability and team health in a fast-moving product environment.
- Experience managing tech leads and senior engineers, not just individual contributors.
- Experience adopting/scaling AI-assisted development practices; familiarity with tools like Cursor or Claude Code, and a point of view on how they change team workflows, output quality, and delivery expectations.
- Comfort operating in a regulated or compliance-adjacent environment (HIPAA, SOC2, or equivalent).
- Strong process instincts: you know when to add structure and when structure is the problem.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Familiarity with modern engineering tooling: GitHub, JIRA or equivalent, CI/CD pipelines, and observability stacks.
Skills
- Agile methodologies
- Software development lifecycle management
- Team leadership
- Process improvement
- Performance management
- Hiring and onboarding
- Coding standards
- Quality assurance
- Release management
- Compliance
- AI coding tools
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Technical road mapping
- Technical strategy
- Modern engineering tooling (GitHub, JIRA, CI/CD, observability)
Location
- Canada
Work Type
- Full-time
- Remote
Experience Level
- Director
Benefits
- Health insurance including medical, dental, vision and life
About the Company
- Aetonix is a digital health company building a chronic care management platform for U.S. health systems, clinics, and ACOs.
- Our product has two faces: A mobile app that helps Medicare patients (65+) complete simple, guided check‑ins, and A desktop app that helps care teams know which patients need them most — and act.
- We are backed by Trudell Medical International (TMI), a Canadian-headquartered medical device company.
- We operate with patient capital and startup urgency.
Equal Opportunity
- Aetonix Systems Inc. is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all teammates.
- As part of our recruitment process, we may use AI tools to screen applicants and assist in evaluating candidate qualifications. All final hiring decisions are made by our recruitment team.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and it is important to our Company that all its employees, including those with disabilities, find our workplace to be welcoming and supportive.
- If you are a candidate with a disability who requires accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know.
