Thyme Care
Description
- Role: Quality Engineering Lead at Thyme Care.
- Employment: Full-time, fully remote, Engineering.
- Own the quality strategy for Thyme Box, Thyme Care’s internal care-management platform used daily by 600+ care-team members.
- Manage and develop a small team of 1–2 Quality Engineers, while remaining hands-on technically.
- Define what “good quality” looks like and how it should be measured across the product lifecycle.
- Introduce quality feedback earlier in development, including during:
- Requirements.
- Technical design.
- Implementation.
- Release.
- Review test plans before development begins and ensure they adequately cover risks.
- Lead bug triage, track defect trends and turn those trends into recommendations for Engineering and Product leadership.
- Perform exploratory testing, particularly around system boundaries and integration points.
- Support automated testing and quality tooling where it helps engineers move faster.
- Own root-cause analysis for escaped defects and production incidents.
- Participate in incident reviews and make sure lessons from production issues feed back into engineering practices.
- Mentor direct reports and help maintain a high hiring bar as the team grows.
Requirements
- 5+ years building, shipping and supporting production software as an:
- Engineer
- Quality Engineer
- SRE
- or similar.
- 2+ years leading or mentoring engineers, either as a manager or technical lead.
- Strong command of:
- Automated testing.
- CI/CD pipelines.
- Observability.
- Quality engineering practices.
- Ability to improve the quality of a product you don’t directly own.
- Strong debugging and root-cause-analysis instincts.
- Able to investigate how systems actually behave rather than relying solely on documentation.
- Ability to communicate quality issues objectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders—even when the findings are uncomfortable.
- Comfortable presenting quality trends and recommendations to Engineering/Product leadership.
- Strong written communication, particularly around incident and defect analysis.
- Healthcare/health-tech experience is nice to have, not mandatory.
- Experience using AI tools to improve developer productivity, code quality or engineering practices is also a plus.
Benefits
- Fully remote position.
- $200,000–$235,000 USD base salary, with the possibility of the range being adjusted depending on hiring level.
- Equity as part of total compensation.
- Benefits package including medical, dental and vision coverage.
- Generous vacation policy.
- Opportunity to work at a technology-driven healthcare company focused on improving cancer care.
- Direct opportunity to influence engineering quality across a platform used by hundreds of care-team members.
- Leadership scope without becoming purely managerial—the role explicitly remains hands-on technically.