We're building healthcare tech for a system that desperately needs it.
Each year, millions of Americans deal with confusing changes to their Medicare plans that impact their prescriptions, access to care, and pocketbooks. These aren’t just inconveniences – they are potentially life-altering changes that leave seniors medically and financially vulnerable.
Independent Medicare advisors play a crucial role in guiding seniors through this complexity and helping them find the right coverage for their needs. But their ability to be effective healthcare advocates has long been hamstrung by broken tools and outdated systems.
Spark is fixing that. We’re the fastest-growing Medicare platform in the country, combining AI, an industry-leading CRM, and client services to transform how 10,000+ brokers acquire, enroll, and support clients in their local communities.
Join a talent-dense team from Square, Ramp, Yext, Oscar, and Cedar — backed by Primary Ventures and Viewpoint Ventures — that is serious about building technology to expand access to quality healthcare. We offer remote work, sabbaticals, company retreats, and other generous benefits that earned us recognition as one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces of 2025
Healthcare is overdue for innovation. Let’s redefine what its future looks like — together.
Spark is looking for a Director of Software Engineering to lead engineering across our broker productivity product and core platform. You'll make sure our platform keeps up with a fast-growing customer base, and you'll keep our web-based broker platform sustainable as it scales.
In this role, you'll own engineering delivery for multiple squads, along with the practices that span all of software engineering. You'll partner with product leaders on roadmaps, own our infrastructure roadmap, and be the point person for the security of our software platform. Today you'll manage engineers directly through strong tech leads. As the organization grows, you'll build and manage a layer of engineering managers. Reporting to our SVP of Engineering, you'll be the default owner for software engineering problems that don't have a clear home, so teams can stay focused on what they do best.
- Our stack is Python, Django, Celery, Vue, Redis, and Postgres, deployed on AWS with modern tooling for version control, continuous deployment, testing, and observability
- You'll manage around six engineers across three squads at full headcount, and own the hiring plan as we grow
- We operate in a HIPAA-regulated environment, and security and compliance are part of how we build
- Every leader at Spark stays hands-on in some way. In this role that means design reviews, specs, code reviews, and spikes, while staying on the critical path for no more than one project at a time
- Drive engineering delivery for our broker productivity squads, partnering with product on sequencing, scoping, and delivery commitments
- Own and communicate our infrastructure roadmap, including platform migrations, vendor integrations, sustainability work, and AI enablement
- Lead security for our software platform, including pen test and audit remediation, in partnership with our IT, DevOps, and data teams
- Own engineering-wide practices across all squads: cross-squad coordination, onboarding, QA and testing, and bugs and support processes
- Hire senior and staff engineers, develop tech leads, and design a team structure that scales
- Take ambiguous problems from definition to resolution, deciding what to own, what to delegate, and what to decline
- Represent software engineering in company-wide planning and cross-functional work
- 8+ years in software engineering, including meaningful time in a startup environment
- 3+ years managing engineers, including leading multiple teams or managing through tech leads. Experience managing managers is a strong plus
- Strong technical foundation in web applications (Python/Django or similar, and JavaScript frameworks like Vue or React), with the judgment to review designs and code credibly
- Experience owning a platform or infrastructure roadmap and explaining it to non-technical leadership
- Experience delivering large migrations or third-party integrations
- Working knowledge of application security and compliance in a regulated environment (HIPAA, SOC 2, or similar)
- Proven track record hiring and developing senior engineers and tech leads
- Comfort working across many kinds of problems at once, with good judgment about where to spend your time
- Strong written and verbal communication, especially with leadership and cross-functional partners
Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our company’s size and industry, and are one part of the total compensation package that also includes equity, benefits, and other opportunities at Spark. In accordance with New York City, Colorado, California, and other applicable laws, Spark is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, geography, and balancing internal equity. A reasonable estimate of the current salary range is listed below. We expect most candidates to fall in the middle of the range. We also believe that your personal needs and preferences should be taken into consideration, so we allow some choice between equity and cash.
Why you should join our team
By joining Spark, you will get in on the ground floor of a fast-moving, well-funded, and mission-driven startup where you will have a profound impact on the brokers and beneficiaries we serve. And you'll learn, grow, be challenged, and have fun with your team while doing it.
We strive to help you and your family thrive. We're committed to supporting your happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing a comprehensive benefits program. In addition to your base salary, we also offer:
- Equity compensation
- Health care, including dental and vision
- Flexible work location; co-working available
- 401k
- Paid Time Off
- Monthly Remote Work Stipend (help cover costs of home-office needs)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Up to 14 weeks for birthing parents
- Up to 8 weeks for non-birth parents
- 11 paid holidays
- 2 week sabbatical at 5 years of employment
- Wellbeing Perks through SpringHealth, Calm, and more!
Compliance
Spark is a proud participant in E-Verify. As part of our commitment to compliance, we use the E-Verify program to confirm the employment eligibility of all employees working in the United States. For more information about E-Verify, please visit www.e-verify.gov.
Furthermore, for security and compliance requirements, we’re unable to accommodate international remote work. While we fully support travel and time off, all work must be conducted from an approved location within the U.S.
At Spark, we are committed to hiring the best team to serve our clients regardless of their background. We need diverse perspectives to reflect the diversity of our problems and the population we serve. We look to hire people from a variety of backgrounds, including, but not limited to, race, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, disability, and veteran status.
AI Notice: We may use AI-enabled tools to assist with certain aspects of our hiring process. These tools do not replace human decision-making, and all employment decisions are made by qualified team members in compliance with applicable laws.
