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# Engineering Lead at Counterpart

- **Company:** Counterpart
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/counterpart/jobs/4712306005

## Job description

## ENGINEERING LEAD

Own the technical vision for your systems. Keep them sound as everything ships.

## The Role

As an Engineering Lead at Counterpart, you are the architect and tech lead for a domain: the claims system, the underwriting platform, the infrastructure layer, or another area where the systems are tightly coupled and need one person keeping them honest. You know how your systems work, how they should evolve, and where they break. You own the technical vision for them.

During planning, you partner with a Technical Product Manager to break initiatives into projects and write the high-level technical requirements for each. Before you lock an approach, you check with the other Engineering Leads: is anyone solving something similar, and should we solve it once? During execution, you run the technical review that gates each project, then step back and let the project team build. You come back in when an architectural question surfaces.

Together with the other Engineering Leads, you set and maintain Counterpart's technical standards. You are also an engineer. You build, and you can be called on to lead a project yourself.

People management is optional in this role, not the default. Some Engineering Leads manage a few engineers; most do not. Either way, you lead primarily through the technical vision, the standards, and the quality of your own work, not through the org chart.

## YOU WILL

Own the Technical Vision for Your Systems

- Know where each system in your domain is going, how they depend on each other, and where the boundaries and data contracts need to be explicit.
- Hold the line on architecture. Catch redundant systems before they get built. Push for reuse and consolidation. Say no when the easier path creates long-term sprawl.
- Check with the other Engineering Leads before locking a technical approach: is anyone solving something similar, does this create or break an assumption in another domain? Lightweight, peer-to-peer. Natural collaboration over process.
- Make deliberate calls on technical debt within your domain. Know when to accumulate it, when to pay it down, and when to refactor. Communicate the trade-offs to your Technical Product Manager and the VP of Engineering.
- Own the context architecture for your domain. Keep documentation, design patterns, and domain knowledge up to date so engineers can operate your systems without relying on tribal knowledge.

Plan the Work

- Partner with your Technical Product Manager during planning. Combined, you turn business problems into initiatives and projects. You write the high-level technical requirements for each project: the system approach, the scalability, security, and integration considerations that determine whether the plan is real.
- Roll projects up to a rough t-shirt size (multi-month or single month) with your Technical Product Manager. For multi-month projects, define what is achievable within one month.
- Advise the VP of Engineering on Project Lead assignments. You know which engineers can carry which projects.

Review Through Reviews

- Run the technical review for each funded project in your domain. The Project Lead plays back the rounded-out requirements and approach. You confirm the approach fits your systems, follows the standards, and does not create problems the project team cannot see. Then development begins.
- When a project touches more than one domain, bring the other domain's Engineering Lead into the technical review. One review, all affected leads present.
- Answer architectural questions when the project team hits them mid-build. Otherwise, stay out of the day-to-day.

Set and Maintain Technical Standards

- Produce and maintain Counterpart's shared technical standards with the other Engineering Leads. Keep them current, specific, and enforceable.
- Enforce the standards within your domain. When work drifts from the agreed patterns, catch it early and course-correct.
- Contribute to decisions on AI tooling and development practices. The Engineering Leads collectively decide how AI tools are used across the engineering organization.

Build

- Write code and build systems when the work requires your depth. You do not delegate everything. You pick up the hardest problems in your domain.
- Take the Project Lead hat when a project calls for it. Then you operate as any Project Lead does: round out requirements, run the reviews, break out tickets, delegate, check in with stakeholders, and iterate.
- Stay at the frontier of AI development. Evaluate emerging frameworks, tools, and practices against Counterpart's systems. Share findings with the other Engineering Leads.
- Review production incidents in your domain. Identify root causes indicating architectural gaps. Fix the architecture, not just the symptom.

Mentor

- Mentor engineers working in your domain. Turn reviews and architectural questions into teaching moments. Raise the bar on how engineers think about system design.
- Coach Project Leads through hard technical decisions. Help them see the trade-offs, then let them own the execution.

## YOU HAVE

- Deep experience designing, building, and operating complex software systems. You have built systems that lasted and maintained systems you inherited.
- The ability to operate as both architect and individual contributor. You know which the situation calls for and you do not default to one.
- Demonstrated experience reviewing technical work from other engineers. You turn reviews into decisions, not debates. You can say no with clear reasoning and say yes with conviction.
- Proficiency with Python, Django, Amazon Web Services (AWS), React, and PostgreSQL.
- Proficiency developing with AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) and the drive to stay ahead of how AI development practices are evolving.
- Experience setting technical direction across teams without being the manager. You influence through architecture, reviews, and the quality of your own work.
- Domain curiosity about insurance. You learn the business context your systems support, not just the systems themselves.
- The ability to communicate clearly across engineering, product, and business. You translate technical complexity without losing meaning.
- Low ego and high Emotional Quotient (EQ). You influence without authority, take feedback well, and leave your ego out of technical decisions.
- Experience working with distributed, remote teams.

Our estimated pay range for this role is $190,000 to $240,000. Base salary is determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to, market data, location, internal equitability, and experience.

We are committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone. We are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who they are or where they come from. We value and celebrate our differences and believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against qualified applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, rule, or regulation.

## About Counterpart

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Counterpart Health operates an AI-powered physician enablement platform that delivers real-time clinical insights to support earlier diagnosis and management of chronic conditions in value-based care settings.
- **Entity Type**: Private (subsidiary of Clover Health Investments, Corp., which is publicly traded on Nasdaq under ticker CLOV)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (with additional presence in Canada and Hong Kong)
- **Founded**: 2024 (technology incubated as Clover Assistant since 2018)
- **Founders**: Incubated by Clover Health; current CEO is Conrad Wai

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare Technology / AI-powered Clinical Enablement
- **Target customers**: Payors, ACOs, medical practices, and value-based care enablers (B2B); clinicians (primary care physicians) use the platform directly
- **Mission or purpose**: To transform care delivery by equipping physicians with clinically intuitive, AI-driven insights at the point of care, enabling earlier diagnosis, better chronic disease management, and improved outcomes at scale.

## Products & Services
- **Counterpart Assistant** – Flagship AI-native platform that unifies data from 100+ sources into a longitudinal patient record. Delivers personalized, prioritized action recommendations (e.g., preventive screenings, medication management) and includes ambient scribing, proactive visit summaries, and natural language chat. Used by thousands of primary care clinicians in live exam rooms.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (subsidiary of Clover Health; Clover Health’s market cap is public but Counterpart is not separately valued)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not disclosed; as a subsidiary, it is backed by Clover Health’s public resources. For impact: 1,500 basis point MCR differential for returning members whose PCPs use Counterpart Assistant vs. those who do not.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Clover Health (parent company); partners include payors, ACOs, and value-based care organizations. Published studies validate clinical impact on Diabetes, CKD, CHF, and COPD.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - >450% year-over-year increase in live third-party customer clinicians (hundreds of clinicians live across multiple states)
  - Technology supported the #1 nationwide HEDIS rating for a Medicare Advantage PPO plan for the second consecutive year
  - Evidence of reducing all-cause hospitalizations (18% lower for CHF, 15% lower for COPD) and 30-day readmissions (25% lower for CHF)
  - Headcount grew 148.6% year-over-year (63 employees; March 2026 data)

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native from the ground up**, not layered onto existing workflows – 100+ machine learning models in active use, proprietary patents (e.g., “Machine Learning for Diagnosis Suspecting”)
- **Proven outcomes** in real-world Medicare Advantage populations, not just pilot studies
- **Integrated directly into clinician workflows** (EHR integrations and web-based application) with minimal training required
- **End-to-end clinical operating system** expanding beyond point-of-care to population health, quality operations, and data services

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling adoption among third-party clinicians and enterprise customers (ACOs, payors, practices)
- Expanding from point-of-care insights to a full clinical operating system covering the entire arc of care
- Continuing to publish real-world evidence of clinical and financial impact
- Building capabilities in ambient scribing, natural language chat, and proactive visit summaries

## Why Work Here
- **Startup velocity with real-world scale** – Operates as a high-growth subsidiary of Clover Health, combining speed with access to live Medicare Advantage populations and proven outcomes
- **AI-native engineering culture** – Engineers build and deploy proprietary ML models used in exam rooms the next day
- **Builders wanted** – Values ownership, systems thinking, and real-world deployment over demos; prefers initiative over instruction
- **Work environment** – Remote-friendly with offices in the US, Canada, and Hong Kong; technical roles make up ~25% of the team
- **Notable perks/culture** – Clinical impact focus; team includes veterans from Clover Health, Optum, UnitedHealthcare; recent active job postings include Engineering Manager, AI Enablement Engineer, Senior Software Developer, UX Engineer (8 open roles as of mid-2026)

## Sources
1. [Counterpart Health Official Site](https://www.counterparthealth.com/)
2. [Counterpart Health Careers Page](https://www.counterparthealth.com/about/careers)
3. [Counterpart Health LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/counterpart-health)
4. [The Org – Counterpart Health](https://theorg.com/org/counterpart-health)
5. [Clover Health Press Release – Counterpart 2025 Results](https://investors.cloverhealth.com/news-releases/news-release-details/counterpart-health-2025-results-how-better-clinical-decisions)

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