ABOUT M7 HEALTH
M7 Health is the AI-powered workforce operations platform for healthcare, designed for the realities of clinical staffing and scheduling. We use AI to help organizations forecast demand, auto-balance schedules, and deploy the right person to fill every shift before resorting to premium labor spend. The result: health systems reduce overtime, cut contract labor costs, and give clinical leaders time back to focus on care. Built with the earned wisdom of nurses, M7 serves tens of thousands of healthcare professionals daily and activated over 100 net new hospitals across 29 states, last year alone.
In September 2026, M7 was acquired by Ascend Learning and joined its Healthcare Workforce Solutions practice alongside Laudio and StaffGarden. Ascend already works with 60% of U.S. nursing schools. Together, we're connecting the entire clinical career, from the classroom to the first shift and every shift after, with the reach and resources to take on healthcare's biggest workforce problems at national scale.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We’re looking for a Tech Lead to lead our Platform team, the group that owns the product experience nurses and clinical leaders touch every day. M7’s Platform team builds the scheduling workflows at the center of M7: how a schedule gets built and published, how open shifts get surfaced and filled, how positions and staffing structures are modeled, and how a health system runs staffing across dozens of hospitals instead of one unit at a time. When a nurse manager opens M7 on a Monday morning, your team built what they see.
This is a hands-on role, roughly 70% engineering and 30% leadership. You'll spend most of your time writing and reviewing production code, designing systems, and debugging the hard problems alongside your team. The rest goes to setting technical direction, raising the quality bar, and unblocking the people around you. You’ll report to the Head of Engineering and run the day-to-day of the Platform squad, owning technical direction, code review, and delivery. Today that’s technical leadership. As the team grows, we expect this role to take on direct reports.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead the Platform squad
- Run the day-to-day of the team: setting technical direction, owning delivery, and growing the engineers on it
- Stay in the codebase. Write and review production code, design systems, and take on the problems nobody else wants
- Strengthen the engineering practices and quality bar for a product where a scheduling bug shows up as a short-staffed unit
- Grow into formal people management as the squad scales, including career development and performance for the engineers on your team.
Build the core product experience
- Ship high-visibility features that run hospital operations nationwide, from scheduling and shift management to open shift filling and system-wide staffing
- Evolve the backend and data model as M7 moves from unit-level scheduling to health-system scale, and into new clinical settings
Partner across the company
- Work with product managers and healthcare operations experts to turn messy clinical realities into software a nurse manager can use
- Bring customer problems back into technical direction rather than waiting for requirements to arrive fully formed
- Build AI into how your team works, both in the product and in how the team ships
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE (FIRST 6 MONTHS)
- You're shipping early, delivering features and fixes in the first weeks and learning the domain by sitting with real customer problems.
- The team's delivery is predictable. You know what's in flight, what's at risk, and what you're saying no to.
- You've raised the engineering bar on your squad through code review, design feedback, and the standards you hold yourself to.
- You're setting technical direction for what Platform builds next, and product and engineering leadership trust that call.
ABOUT YOU
- Experienced, hands-on engineer: You have 6+ years building and operating production software, with…