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Release Engineer

Healthie

Healthie

Software Engineering
New York, NY, USA
USD 115k-145k / year + Equity
Posted on Aug 13, 2025

Healthie’s Mission

Healthie powers virtual-first care delivery, improving access to healthcare and enabling better healthcare outcomes through technology.

We build infrastructure that all healthcare organizations need to perform virtual-first care. Between our EHR, scheduling, and patient engagement solutions, Healthie’s API-first approach makes it easy for organizations of every size to build, customize, and scale their business.

Today, we support thousands of organizations—rannging from small private practices to digital health startups and multi-billion-dollar healthcare companies. Leveraging Healthie, our customers deliver care to millions of patients across the full spectrum of healthcare services — from preventative health and wellness to complex chronic care management.

We believe the future of healthcare delivery is virtual-first, longitudinal, and collaborative. Learn more at: https://www.gethealthie.com


About the Role

We’re hiring a Release Engineer to join our team! In this cross-functional role, you’ll be the engine behind our ability to ship high-quality software reliably and efficiently. You’ll work closely with QA, product squads, and the Platform team to coordinate releases, improve our CI/CD workflows, and ensure that staging environments and release gates are in top shape.

Details

  • This is a full-time, hybrid position based in our NYC HQ
  • The base salary for this role is $115,000. - $145,000. per year plus equity and annual bonus

What You’ll Do

  • Coordinate and manage the release process for multiple product squads.
  • Own the release calendar and help plan deployment cadence with engineering leads.
  • Ensure CI pipelines for Core teams are healthy, performant, and reflect best practices.
  • Proactively triage staging/environment issues and collaborate with Platform to resolve infrastructure blockers.
  • Build or improve automation for changelogs, deployment tagging, release notes, and smoke tests.
  • Collaborate with QA to ensure test completeness, coverage, and sign-off for releases.
  • Support production deployments by Core teams and define processes for rollback and hotfixes.
  • Create and monitor metrics related to release frequency, lead time, and post-deploy stability.

What You’ll Bring

  • Experience managing software releases or CI/CD workflows in a product engineering environment.
  • Familiarity with GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, or similar CI systems, including pipeline scripting.
  • Understanding of release automation, deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, feature flags), and observability.
  • Driven to identify manual processes and systematically automate them with practical, maintainable solutions.
  • Scripting skills (Bash, Python etc.) and API Integration experience
  • Experience with staging or ephemeral environment management.
  • Strong collaboration skills and ability to work across product, QA, and platform teams.
  • Passion for making releases boring (in the best way possible).

Bonus If You Have

  • Experience in platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE environments.
  • Understanding of Docker.
  • Familiarity with feature flag systems (e.g., LaunchDarkly, Unleash).
  • Exposure to agile product delivery and working in a squad-based org.

Interview Process

Our interview process is designed to be thoughtful, transparent, and efficient. We’ll move through the stages as quickly as possible. Here’s what you can expect:

  • Quick chat with Debbie, AI Recruiter (30 minutes)
  • Connect with Katie, Director of Talent (20 minutes)
  • Meet Michele, Engineering Manager, QA (30 minutes)
  • Take Home Assessment Asynchronous
  • Peer Interview with EM’s (45 minutes)
  • Executive Interviews with:
    • Jonathan, VP of Engineering (30 minutes)
    • Cavan, CTO + cofounder (20 minutes)
  • References

To learn more about Working at Healthie & our benefits, click here.

Healthie participates in e-verify

Healthie is committed to equal employment opportunity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. We're proud to be building a diverse and inclusive environment that encourages collaboration, creativity, and growth. Whatever your background, please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day.