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# Engineering Manager, Mental Healthcare at Lutra

- **Company:** Lutra
- **Location:** Canada
- **Compensation:** $140k–$180k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-06-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/lutra/am9icG9zdDpZ21InFal1mg6YdJ32FySS

## Job description

## Your Opportunity

Our client builds North America’s leading clinical practice software for mental healthcare providers. They are a mission-driven innovator rooted in research and building the tools to support the emergent clinical category they are creating. They currently serve >350 healthcare organizations and tens of thousands of clinicians delivering care in clinics, hospitals, campuses, and workplaces. The company also serves regional health systems by providing population-level insights and bolsters continuity of care by making patient data on the platform portable to a variety of care providers and program administrators.

As their Engineering Manager, you’ll lead and grow the team building their clinical product, a group whose work directly shapes how mental healthcare is delivered. This is a player-coach role, reporting to the Head of Engineering Operations. You’ll lead through mentorship, process, and technical clarity while staying hands-on in the code. This role sits close to the work. You'll contribute to reviews, participate in design discussions, and lead by example. As AI-assisted development reshapes what individual and team productivity looks like, you'll help the team adopt and evaluate these tools and model what it means to use them with strong engineering judgment.

## Key Responsibilities

- Team coaching: Support direct reports through regular 1:1s, clear expectations, and ongoing feedback that helps each person grow in their role and career
- Hiring and onboarding: Hire and onboard new engineers, and facilitate performance reviews and career development conversations
- Team environment: Build trust and clarity so the team can focus on doing their best work, and facilitate knowledge sharing through code reviews, pairing, and design discussions
- Technical contribution: Stay hands-on by contributing to code reviews, technical design and architecture, and writing code regularly
- AI-assisted development: Help the team navigate AI-assisted development by evaluating tools, establishing good practices, and modeling effective use without compromising correctness, security, or maintainability
- Engineering quality: Raise the bar on testing practices, code hygiene, CI/CD, observability, and scalability
- AI product features: Contribute to building AI-powered product features where appropriate, including LLM integrations, agentic flows, and evaluation pipelines
- Delivery health: Own the team's delivery health and ensure continuous shipping of high-quality product improvements in a CI/CD environment
- Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with Product, Design, and other product development teams to shape the roadmap, break down work, and deliver iteratively
- Process ownership: Maintain and evolve agile processes that help the team move fast while balancing short-term delivery with long-term technical health

Tech Stack

- Languages: Python, JavaScript, TypeScript
- Backend: Django
- Database: PostgreSQL, Redis
- Cloud: AWS

## Your Know-How

- You have 8+ years of engineering experience, with strong full-stack development across frontend, backend, APIs, and data
- You are fluent in or able to quickly ramp up in a stack that includes Python, JavaScript and TypeScript, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS
- You bring a player-coach mindset and are comfortable moving between writing code and leading people, knowing when each is needed
- You have a practitioner's understanding of how GenAI development tools change engineering workflows, including what they do well, where they fall short, and how to build a team culture that uses them well
- You have experience hiring, coaching, and managing software engineers, and you give direct, constructive feedback while building trust quickly
- You are proficient in designing scalable, maintainable systems, including databases, APIs, job queues, integrations, and cloud infrastructure
- You are comfortable implementing and iterating on software delivery practices, including CI/CD, code quality, testing, security, compliance, and reliability
- You are a strong written and verbal communicator who can translate between technical and non-technical audiences and align across Product, Design, and Customer Success
- You bring a growth mindset and continuously learn while helping others do the same

It’s a bonus if

- You have experience in digital health, healthcare software, or other regulated or sensitive data environments
- You are familiar with healthcare compliance standards such as HIPAA and SOC 2
- You have built GenAI-powered product features end-to-end

## About Lutra

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Lutra is a water and wastewater process engineering consultancy and software provider, delivering smarter solutions to protect water, the environment, and people’s health.
- **Entity Type**: Private
- **Headquarters**: Lower Hutt, New Zealand
- **Founded**: 2006
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Water & Wastewater Treatment, Utilities, Environmental Engineering, Data Management Software
- **Target customers**: Government municipalities, industrial clients in New Zealand, and international clients in the water and wastewater sector (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To protect water, the environment and people's health, by providing smarter solutions."

## Products & Services
For each major offering:
- **Infrastructure Data (ID)**: A market-leading, scalable, cloud-based operations and compliance management software platform. It is designed to improve operational performance, data quality, and reduce organisational risk for water and wastewater treatment assets. The software is used to manage assets accounting for 75% of New Zealand’s population.
- **Water & Wastewater Process Engineering**: Expert consultancy services including options studies, process design, commissioning support, and optimisation for water and wastewater treatment plants (e.g., activated sludge systems, MABR).
- **Advanced Process Control (APC)**: Services to improve plant performance, efficiency, and compliance through advanced control strategies.
- **Training**: Operational training and knowledge transfer for clients in the three waters industry.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of USD 5,400,000 (estimated); Total Funding of USD 60,100 (from two grants by Callaghan Innovation in 2016 and 2017).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Callaghan Innovation (grant provider), and a supportive global parent company (not named in sources).
- **Growth Signals**: The company has grown from a small team in 2006 to a team of 35. It serves 30+ clients in NZ’s government and industrial space, plus 25+ international clients. Its software holds the market majority for compliance management in NZ.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep Domain Expertise**: One of the largest water process engineering teams in New Zealand, with two decades of experience.
- **Market Leading Software**: The Infrastructure Data platform is the trusted industry solution for compliance and operations management, serving the majority of the NZ population’s water assets.
- **End-to-End Solutions**: Combines expert engineering knowledge with innovative technology (software, APC, training) to provide comprehensive solutions.
- **Outcomes-Focused**: Prioritises customer needs and delivers excellence through deep upfront understanding of client requirements.

## Strategic Focus
- **Growth and Expansion**: Actively seeking a Domestic Business Development Manager to secure Lutra’s position in the reformed water sector in New Zealand.
- **Talent Development**: Focused on building career pathways and developing employees through a supportive global parent company, aiming for a "no glass ceiling" environment.
- **Sustainability**: Committed to reducing emissions and developing sustainable operating practices, reflected in their Statement of Intent and Mission.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a team of experts committed to excellence, with a strong focus on people. The company invests heavily in training, work/life balance, and providing a safe, healthy, and fun workplace.
- **Flexibility**: All employees have flexibility to work from home and are provided with packages to do so. There are no enforced traditional start or finish times, offering trust and autonomy.
- **Wellbeing Package**: Includes comprehensive Health Insurance, an employee assistance provider, wellbeing days, and a 6-monthly allowance.
- **Career Development**: Formal career pathways are in place, and the company supports training and development with a "no glass ceiling" philosophy due to its global parent company.
- **Compensation**: Competitive compensation and an annual bonus scheme for all employees.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Highly flexible with a strong work-from-home culture.

## Sources
1. [lutra.com/about](https://www.lutra.com/about-us)
2. [lutra.com/careers](https://www.lutra.com/careers)
3. [linkedin.com/company/lutra-ltd](https://linkedin.com/company/lutra-ltd)
4. [lutra.com/our-team](https://www.lutra.com/our-team)
5. [prospeo.io/c/lutra-revenue](https://prospeo.io/c/lutra-revenue)

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