Head of Engineering

The role

You will lead a self-directed engineering team and set technical direction, processes, and quality standards. This player-coach role involves spending 20-30% of your time in the codebase while shaping the platform and partnering with product and design.

What you will do

• Build and grow the team through hiring, performance, and career growth.
• Design planning, code review, testing, release, and incident practices.
• Make foundational architecture calls to ensure velocity during scale.
• Own platform and DevOps roadmap and environments.
• Work with ops and compliance leads on HIPAA, SOC 2, and HITRUST.
• Roll out coding agents, evals, and internal tooling.
• Review code, pair on hard problems, and ship code.
• Partner with Staff PM and Product Design Lead on scope and tradeoffs.
• Represent the engineering team at the leadership table.

Required qualifications

• Led engineering teams through growth.
• Managed senior ICs.
• Built in a regulated environment such as healthcare or fintech.
• Shipped production TypeScript or JavaScript recently.
• Own reliability, observability, environments, and incident response.
• Communicate clearly through writing and documentation.
• Current work authorization in the United States.
• Access to protected health information.

Nice to have

• Worked in digital health or B2B2C healthcare.
• Understand eligibility, claims, or care delivery tooling.
• Led a SOC 2 or HITRUST effort from the engineering side.
• Run a marathon, started a company, earned a degree while working full-time, or overcome significant adversity.

Benefits

• A team that genuinely cares about each other and the members we serve
• A fully remote company that gathers every year for an annual retreat

Before you apply

• Requires current work authorization in the United States.
• Unable to provide visa sponsorship.
• Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check and drug screening (5-panel, no THC).

About the company

WellTheory is a digital health company helping people with autoimmune conditions through personalized care, nutrition guidance, and ongoing coaching. They are a team of 60+ people.