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Head of Engineering
Photon
BrooklynOn-site4d ago
- Employment
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Lead
About the role
Company Mission
Who We’re Looking For
Core Responsibilities
- Own the engineering organization from structure, prioritization, and how teams are organized across patient experience, integrations, platform, and internal systems
- Set and drive technical strategy and architecture direction in close partnership with Product
- Build the leadership layer: hire, develop, and manage engineering managers and senior engineers, and raise the bar on the talent we bring in and keep
- Own execution and delivery across the full product surface, with clear priorities, strong alignment, and consistent shipping
- Own engineering's operational health: reliability, uptime, on-call, and incident response for prescribing infrastructure that can't go down quietly
- Own the security, privacy, and compliance posture of engineering in partnership with the relevant teams (HIPAA and beyond)
- Partner with the CEO and leadership team on company strategy, roadmap, and the hard tradeoffs
- Build and steward a strong engineering culture rooted in ownership, accountability, and high standards
- Manage engineering tooling decisions and key technical vendor relationships
- Represent engineering to the board, investors, and partners when it matters
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years leading engineering teams – including managing managers or owning a full engineering function
- Strong track record of building and scaling engineering teams at early or growth stage
- Experience owning technical strategy and architecture for a meaningful product or platform
- Familiarity with APIs, integrations, marketplaces, or distributed systems at scale
- Proven delivery across multiple teams or a full product surface area
- Ability to create clarity in ambiguous environments – across priorities, ownership, and decision-making
- Experience working closely with Product, Commercial, and Ops at a leadership level in a fast-paced environment
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to address difficult situations directly and represent engineering to executives, the board, and partners
- Experience leveraging AI in engineering workflows or products
- Hands-on enough to stay technically credible and dive in when the situation calls for it
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in healthcare, fintech, or other complex, regulated environments
- Experience building or owning infrastructure platforms
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks (HIPAA, SOC 2)
Why Join Us
- Own engineering at a company at a real inflection point, post-Series A, and define how the org scales from here
- Work on a problem almost everyone you know has experienced, and help fix a system that's broken in ways most people just accept
- These are hard problems, and we expect a lot, but the growth and impact that come with it are real
- Lead a team of truly exceptional software engineers
- Join a team that gives a shit – about the work, about each other, and about doing things the right way. High trust, high standards, and we actually like spending time together
Our Values
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Perks & benefits
- Equity Compensation
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