Garner Health
Director, Engineering
$395K–$414K
New York City, New York +1 · Director · Full-time · Posted Jul 9, 2026
- Location
- New York City, New York
New York, NY - Experience
- 10+ years building and operating high-scale, high-reliability backend systems; 5+ years leading engineering teams, including managing managers.
About the job
Lead Garner’s Financial Incentives engineering function, overseeing systems that ingest claims, adjudicate benefits, and move member payments while improving their correctness, reliability, security, and scalability.
What you'll do
- Own FIN outcomes and its multi-year roadmap across ingestion, eligibility, adjudication, benefit accumulation, and payments/treasury.
- Set engineering standards and technical direction; stay involved in design reviews, code, and incidents, and advance AI-native engineering with safeguards.
- Build and develop the engineering organization, and partner with company leaders and payment partners on plans, risks, and tradeoffs.
What they ask for
- 10+ years building and operating high-scale, high-reliability backend systems.
- 5+ years leading engineering teams, including managing managers.
- Experience handling sensitive PHI/PII or financial data and unvalidated third-party inputs, including security and data integrity.
- Fluency in distributed systems, event-driven architecture, fault tolerance, AWS, and API design.
Pay
USD 395,000 - USD 414,000 total pay (inclusive of bonus)
Tools
Python, TypeScript, React, NodeJS, Kubernetes, Istio, Postgres, AWS
AI focus
Make AI-native engineering the default for FIN; build harnesses, validation frameworks, and Claude Skills, and safely mature teams from assisted toward autonomous.
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