Our client is a growing healthcare technology company operating a patient-facing platform in a regulated environment. The platform handles real-time patient communications alongside long-running asynchronous workflows, and the engineering organization is distributed across two North American offices.
The company is past early-stage and scaling. The engineering function needs the structure, standards and leadership to grow with it.
THE ROLE
- This is a foundational executive leadership role responsible for scaling the engineering organization, the technical infrastructure, and the company's operational maturity.
- As VP of Engineering you will lead a distributed engineering team across two offices while shaping the systems, processes and architecture required to support a rapidly growing healthcare platform in a regulated environment.
- Success means building a high-performing engineering culture, delivering reliable and scalable systems, and laying the technical foundation for long-term business growth.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Lead, mentor and scale a distributed engineering organization across two sites.
- Own engineering recruiting strategy, hiring standards, organizational design and headcount planning.
- Define and drive technical strategy across backend services, infrastructure, integrations and platform architecture.
- Guide scalability and reliability initiatives for systems supporting real-time patient communications (audio and SMS) and asynchronous workflow processing.
- Own infrastructure strategy, including cloud architecture, CI/CD, observability, deployment automation and operational excellence.
- Establish engineering best practices for security, compliance, resiliency and performance in a HIPAA-compliant environment.
- Partner closely with Product and Operations leadership to align engineering priorities with company goals and roadmap execution.
- Improve engineering velocity, system reliability and cross-functional collaboration as the organization scales.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Proven experience leading, managing and scaling a distributed engineering organization, including direct ownership of recruiting, hiring and headcount planning.
- Expertise setting technical direction, architectural standards and driving large-scale infrastructure decisions across backend services and complex integrations.
- Deep experience establishing and enforcing engineering standards, and operating compliant, fault-tolerant production environments preferably under HIPAA or another regulated framework.
- Track record implementing reliability and scalability solutions, particularly for platforms handling real-time audio or SMS and long-running asynchronous data workflows.
- Demonstrated ability to partner with Product and Operations leadership to translate business priorities into a clear, actionable engineering roadmap.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Healthcare technology or SaaS platform experience at a mid-sized startup.
- Familiarity with HL7, FHIR or EHR integrations.
- Cloud platform experience AWS, Azure or GCP.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation and version control (Git).
- Experience working in a monorepo setup such as Turborepo or Nx.
- Distributed data or batch processing frameworks Apache Spark, Databricks or similar.
- DevOps practices including containerization, observability and deployment automation.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
- Distributed remote team with hybrid offices in two North American metros.
- Regular and consistent in-person collaboration is required
- Highly collaborative culture with video-on team meetings and technical discussions.
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This position is listed as full time and able to be worked remotely.