[Hiring] Product Builder @Pennant Services

Role Description

The Product Builder owns a feature from technical kickoff through merged, released code. Working from a validated problem, prototype, and specification produced by Product and Design, the Product Builder designs the system, plans the implementation, and directs AI coding agents to produce the code - then carries accountability for its correctness, security, and long-term maintainability.

This role is defined by ownership of a complete feature. Product Builders produce architecture, contracts, program design, and verified working software. The primary means of producing code is the direction and review of AI agents, which makes judgment, system design decisions, and rigorous review the central skills of the role.

Product Builders work on an applications platform maintained by the Application Platform Architect, and against data contracts and standards owned by the Data Platform Architect.

What You Own

• Feature architecture: System design, component and feature contracts, data model, endpoint and API design, and the constraints and requirements the feature must satisfy.
• Program design: Test approaches and seams, program layout and call stacks, component trees and dependencies — defined before implementation begins.
• Vertical slices: Implementation order, the multi-repository coordination map, and incremental pull requests linked to their tracked issues.
• Agent orchestration: Translating architecture and program design into effective agent tasking; evaluating agent output critically.
• Pull request quality: Agentic code review, CI/CD checks, unit tests, and security and SAST scans.
• Release readiness: Shared accountability with Product, Design, and Leadership that a feature is ready to go to the field.

What You Participate In

• Technical kickoff: Join the walkthrough of problem, outcomes, prototype, and constraints; surface technical risk early.
• Cross-functional review: Work directly with Design on QA against the prototype, with Product on AI evaluation results and scope drift.

What You Do Not Own

• Problem framing, success metrics, research, prioritization, and the product specification are owned by Product, Design, and Leadership.
• The shared repositories, CI/CD pipeline, and data platform are owned by the platform architects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience building and shipping production software.
• Demonstrated ability to design a system, including data modeling, API design, and defining contracts between components.
• Strong code review skills, with the judgment to identify correctness, security, and maintainability problems in code you did not write.
• Working knowledge of automated testing strategy: what to test, where the seams are, and what adequate coverage looks like.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, version control workflows, and secure development practices including static analysis and dependency scanning.
• Ability to decompose a feature into incremental, independently reviewable slices.
• Clear written and verbal communication with non-engineering partners, including Product, Design, and clinical stakeholders.
• Ability to work with protected health information in accordance with HIPAA and internal data governance requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience directing AI coding agents or working extensively with AI-assisted development tooling.
• Experience in healthcare technology, particularly home health, hospice, or post-acute care.
• Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards such as HL7 and FHIR.
• Experience integrating with third-party clinical or operational platforms.
• Experience working in a monorepo with shared CI/CD infrastructure.
• Exposure to evaluating AI-driven product features, including defining evaluation criteria and test cases.

Core Competencies

• Systems thinking: Reason about how a change propagates through a system.
• Verification discipline: Treat generated code as a proposal requiring proof.
• Ownership: Carry a feature to shipped and correct, including error states and edge cases.
• Collaboration across disciplines: Engage seriously with clinical and product context.

Benefits

• True Work-Life balance – We believe in taking care of yourself before you take care of others!
• Full benefits package (medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with match).
• Paid time off, holiday pay, and professional development.
• Your voice matters! Work with other passionate and high-achieving leaders who care deeply about patient outcomes and team success.

Company Description

We support over 250 home health, hospice, senior living, and home care operations across 19 states. Our Service Center model empowers local leadership while providing centralized clinical, legal, HR, IT, and compliance support to help ensure high-quality care.

The Pennant Group, Inc. is a holding company of independent operating subsidiaries that provide healthcare services through home health and hospice agencies and senior living communities located throughout the US.