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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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