Head of Engineering

The role

You will lead engineering teams building technology and workflows to solve the prior authorization bottleneck. You will run day-to-day execution, grow engineers, and make architectural decisions while participating in customer sales calls.

What you will do

• Run engineering execution across multiple pods with weekly ship cycles.
• Hire, onboard, and develop engineers from senior level to recent grads.
• Guide the architecture of the platform and systems.
• Establish standards for code review, testing, AI evaluations, observability, on-call, and incident response.
• Partner with infrastructure and security leads to meet customer requirements.
• Turn customer feedback and requirements into roadmaps and built features.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• 4+ years managing engineers
• 2+ years growing managers or tech leads
• Hands-on experience shipping enterprise-grade systems in an AI-native way
• Demonstrated experience hiring and scaling engineering teams at a high-growth company
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience building in a domain where getting it right matters, such as security, compliance, fintech, or health

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Meaningful early-stage equity
• A direct line to the CEO
• Real ownership of a business outcome

About the company

Develop Health uses AI to accelerate access to life-saving medications by automating healthcare processes. The team consists of founders and engineers who have previously launched and exited successful healthcare startups.