Duet

VP of Engineering

New York City, Remote. Posted 4 months ago

The role

The VP of Engineering will be the architect and primary builder of the product engineering stack. You will lead a small data and engineering team, define the technical roadmap, and own the architecture for data-intensive customer-facing products.

What you will do

  • Drive the technical strategy and own architectural decisions across the stack.
  • Establish engineering standards, patterns, and practices.
  • Design and implement backend systems that transform healthcare data into products.
  • Build application surfaces like dashboards, workflows, and operational tools.
  • Translate manual service-driven processes into durable software abstractions.
  • Define the vision for technical organization structure and own the hiring process.
  • Provide technical leadership through architecture guidance, code review, and mentorship.
  • Write tests for workflow logic and core systems.
  • Debug production issues and improve systems based on failure modes.
  • Ensure changes are safe, observable, and reversible.

Required qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience building production web applications
  • Strong backend and data engineering instincts
  • Experience building data-intensive customer-facing applications
  • Proficiency in Python, Javascript and experience designing and building RESTful APIs
  • Full-stack capability with backend as your center of gravity
  • Experience with cloud data warehouses and modern data tooling
  • Experience managing an engineering team across the front and back end
  • A product engineering mindset

Nice to have

  • Healthcare, billing, or claims data experience
  • Experience turning internal tools or managed services into self-serve customer-facing products
  • Experience with workflow automation or rule-based systems

About the company

Duet is an early-stage company that helps nurse-practitioners build and scale independent practices using AI-driven tools. The company is backed by investors including Lerer Hippeau and Kairos.