Director, Software Engineering

Thank you for considering Progyny!

The Director of Software Engineering is a strategic and hands-on leader responsible for managing and developing a high-performing team of engineers. This role oversees the agile execution of backend development for critical business initiatives collaborating closely with Engineering and Operations Management to drive company-wide process improvements and ensure Progynys technology remains reliable scalable and efficient.

This leader combines technical expertise with people management and thought leadership shaping technical strategy implementing best practices and serving as a subject matter expert. The Director acts as a point of escalation for urgent issues evaluates and evolves development practices and champions a culture of continuous improvement.

What youll do...

• Lead mentor and develop the Software Engineering team fostering professional growth and technical excellence.
• Provide career development coaching and regular feedback for direct reports.
• Evaluate existing solutions projects and infrastructure; recommend and implement enhancements for scalability reliability and efficiency.
• Collaborate with Program/Product Management and business stakeholders to deliver on key business initiatives.
• Engage with end-users operational leaders and subject matter experts to understand and translate operational goals into technical solutions.
• Oversee the execution maintenance and optimization of projects applications and pipelines to ensure continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Guide the team in debugging tracing and profiling code to maximize uptime and maintainability.
• Develop document and implement engineering processes and best practices.
• Contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle including design development documentation testing and operations.
• Serve as a technical leader and escalation point for complex challenges and urgent issues.

About you...

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5 years of Software and Quality engineering leadership experience.
• 3 years of prior experience with Java and/or Python.
• Proven ability to develop and implement technical processes and long-term vision for engineering teams.
• Experience with large-scale data pipelines.
• Expertise in developing troubleshooting and optimizing RESTful API systems for performance scalability and security.
• Strong prioritization communication and ownership skills; ability to design for repeatability and scalability.
• Demonstrated flexibility to improve existing systems and innovate new capabilities.
• Experience working in an agile Scrum environment.
• Proficiency with PHP shell scripting Git and remote version control services (e.g. GitHub).
• 5 years with MySQL or similar relational databases
• 3 years with Docker and AWS (or similar cloud services).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. CodePipeline CircleCI Jenkins GitLab CI).
• Bonus: Experience with Salesforce AWS Lambda or serverless computing NoSQL databases (e.g. DynamoDB) Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g. Terraform CloudFormation) and front-end frameworks (React Vue Angular).
• Bonus: AI driven engineering efficiency experience.

Please note: This is not a digital nomad or remote international position; candidates must be based in the United States. Progyny is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in United States without the need for sponsorship now or in the future.

About Progyny:

Progyny (Nasdaq: PGNY) is a global leader in womens health and family building solutions trusted by the nations leading employers health plans and benefit purchasers. We envision a world where everyone can realize dreams of family and ideal health. Our outcomes prove that comprehensive inclusive and intentionally designed solutions simultaneously benefit employers patients and physicians.

Our benefits solution empowers patients with concierge support coaching education and digital tools;provides access to a premier network of fertility and womens health specialists who use the latest science and technologies; drives optimal clinical outcomes; and reduces healthcare costs.

Our mission is toempower healthier supported journeys through transformative fertility family building and womens health benefits.

Headquartered in New York City Progyny has been recognized for its leadership and growth as a TIME100 Most Influential Company CNBC Disruptor 50 Modern Healthcares Best Places to Work in Healthcare Forbes Best Employers Financial Times Fastest Growing Companies Inc. 5000 Inc. Power Partners and Crains Fast 50 for NYC. For more information visit .

Our perks:

• Family friendly benefits: Paid family and parental leave preconception fertility and family building benefits (including egg freezing IVF and adoption support) family and pet care fund and Parents Employee Affiliation Group
• Menopause and midlife care

• Health dental vision and life insurance options for employees and family

• Free in-person virtual and text-based mental health and wellness support

• Paid time off including vacation sick leave personal days and summer flex time

• Company equity

• Bonus program

• 401(k) plan with company match

• Access to on-demand legal and financial advice
• Learning and development programs to help you grow professionally and a mentorship program

• Company social eventsto include annual volunteer day and donation matching

• Flex days (3 days a week in the office) and onsite meals and snacks for employees reporting into our NY office

In compliance with New York Citys Wage Transparency Law the annual salary wage range for NYC-based applicants is: $200000 - $210000. There are a variety of factors that go into determining a salary range including but not limited to external market benchmark data geographic location and years of experience sought/required. Progyny offers a total compensation package comprised of base salary cash bonus and equity.

Progyny is proud to be anEqual Opportunity and Affirmative Action respect and seek to empower each individual and support the diverse cultures perspectivesskillsand experiences within our workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race creed color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin disability age genetic information marital status pregnancy or related condition status as a protected veteran criminal history consistent with legal requirements or any other basis protected by law.

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