About the Position

We are seeking an experienced Software Engineering Team Lead to join Flywheel’s Viewer team. In this role, you will lead a specialized product team building a state-of-the-art medical imaging viewer used across multiple clinical workflows. The ideal candidate is passionate about solving meaningful problems, developing and elevating the engineers around them, and delivering high-quality results. This role requires strong people leadership skills and a software engineering background. 

Environment

This role works closely with a cross-functional product team and business stakeholders. The team operates within an Agile process and is empowered to alter it as needed to achieve team and company objectives. 

We’re highly responsive to customer needs and constantly strive to make a positive contribution to the biomedical and life sciences communities we serve. Team members are recognized and rewarded when advocating customer success and satisfaction over other concerns. We value self-motivated, creative individuals who work well in a collaborative environment – constantly generating and sharing new ideas and solutions with the team.  

Flywheel has a comprehensive benefits package and encourages a balanced work life and home life. 

Responsibilities

• Own delivery outcomes for the team, ensuring high-quality software is released predictably and efficiently. 
• Partner with the Product Owner and Technical Lead to keep work well-scoped, prioritized, and ready for development
• Identify delivery risks and cross-team dependencies early and help address before they impact timelines. 
• Manage and support engineers; provide regular feedback, coaching, and guidance on professional development. 
• Foster an inclusive, psychologically safe team culture where engineers are empowered to take ownership, collaborate openly, and do their best work. 
• Support continued team growth by participating in interviewing, candidate selection, and onboarding. 
• Stay hands-on as an engineer by contributing to features and fixes, reviewing code, and solving problems alongside other engineers. 
• Promote engineering best practices by encouraging well-designed, maintainable, and testable code. 
• Help triage incoming bugs and stakeholder requests and ensure they are routed and resolved quickly 
  

What would make you a great fit

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building cloud-based web applications; experience leading product teams shipping at scale 
• 2+ years managing engineers, or equivalent leadership experience (mentorship, performance input, hiring, career development) 
• Ability to coach and grow engineers through feedback, goal setting, and development conversations 
• Track record of delivering quality software while maintaining team health and engagement
• Strong communication skills: clear feedback, difficult conversations, and stakeholder/leadership alignment 
• Hands-on manager comfortable balancing people leadership and individual contribution
• Agile/Scrum experience, including improving team processes 
• Experience leading in distributed teams with strong async communication and documentation habits
• Medical imaging, healthcare software, or other regulated-domain experience
• Experience coordinating major dependency upgrades or OSS framework adoption (e.g., OHIF) 
• Familiarity with some of our stack: TypeScript, Python, Go, MongoDB, Kubernetes, AWS/Azure 

About Us 

Flywheel is the leading research data platform that's transforming the way biomedical and imaging data are managed at leading life sciences, clinical, and academic institutions globally. 

Flywheel provides a comprehensive research data solution with all the tools needed for curation, imaging processing, machine learning workflows, and secure collaboration. By leveraging cloud scalability and automating research workflows, Flywheel helps organizations scale research data and analysis, improve scientific collaboration, and accelerate discoveries. 

Company Values 

 GO STEADY WITH LEVITY 

The alchemy of effective teamwork happens when we each take ownership of menial and magical every day. We're serious, but never stuffy. We keep our cool under pressure because we assume best intentions and maintain perspective. This allows for true teamwork, with a dash of irreverence. 

WORK BETTER TOGETHER  

We are tenacious and united in our pursuit of solving our customers’ biggest challenges, and no challenge is too big. Diverse backgrounds across our team make us more effective as we listen, absorb, collaborate, and iterate to innovate. 

FIGURE IT OUT 

We’re obsessed with uncovering the why of any given. Having an open mind allows us to be quick to fail and quick to adapt. We relentlessly pursue continual improvement through learning and imagining new possibilities. 

GIVE A SHIT 

We’re fueled by grit, boundless energy, and a deep belief that we are doing cool shit. We don’t hesitate to stand up and speak out because we trust that through tough, honest discourse we can drive change and make a real difference for our customers and our mission.