Head of Engineering

Evvy•New York, NY

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Evvy is a precision women’s health company leveraging the vaginal microbiome to improve outcomes across a woman's lifespan. They have a validated Vaginal Microbiome Test and an AI-powered personalized care platform, backed by over $30M in funding. Evvy has built the world’s largest dataset on the vaginal microbiome, which serves as a foundation for breakthroughs in various women's health conditions. The company is at an inflection point, with proven traction, a massive opportunity, and a top-tier team and investor base. They are seeking mission-driven individuals to help change the landscape of women's health. The Head of Engineering role is central to building the technical foundation for Evvy's future. Engineering is at the core of all company operations, including diagnostics, patient experiences, AI-powered personalization, clinical operations, and data infrastructure. This position focuses on utilizing modern engineering and AI-native development to enhance the speed, leverage, and ambition of a small team. The Head of Engineering will report directly to the CEO, guiding Evvy's technical vision, architecture, and execution through scaling. Responsibilities include overseeing the platform's evolution across patient experiences, internal tooling, AI-powered workflows, clinical infrastructure, and data systems, ensuring quality, reliability, and trust. The ideal candidate is deeply hands-on, product-minded, and comfortable working directly with the team on architecture, unblocking engineers, experimenting with tooling, prototyping systems, and adopting new AI-enabled development workflows. They should understand how modern engineering organizations operate in an AI-native world, enabling lean, highly-leveraged teams to achieve ambitious goals.

Requirements

10+ years of engineering experience, including 4+ years in engineering leadership roles
Experience leading engineering organizations through high-growth startup stages (Series B and beyond)
Experience building and scaling consumer-facing platforms, internal systems, or data-intensive products
Strong architectural instincts across modern web infrastructure and AI-enabled systems
Experience deploying modern AI tooling and workflows across software development processes
Experience hiring, mentoring, and managing engineers while remaining highly technical yourself
Familiarity with modern engineering stacks similar to Evvy’s (Python/Django, React, PostgreSQL, AWS, Snowflake, etc.)
Deeply product-minded and obsessed with building systems that create real user value
Intensely hands-on and excited to work directly alongside engineers in the weeds
AI-native by default — constantly exploring how new technologies can accelerate development and increase leverage
Energized by building lean, high-output engineering teams that can execute ambitious roadmaps quickly
Comfortable operating in ambiguity and making thoughtful decisions with imperfect information
A strong technical leader who can balance speed, quality, scalability, and pragmatism
Passionate about building strong engineering cultures and mentoring high-performing teams
An exceptional communicator across technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice To Haves

Experience in healthtech or other regulated industries
Experience productionizing ML/AI systems
Experience with HIPAA, security certifications, or privacy-sensitive infrastructure
Experience supporting diagnostics, ecommerce, or patient-facing healthcare platforms

Responsibilities

Translate Evvy’s company and product vision into a scalable technical roadmap across engineering, AI, and data infrastructure
Define architecture and technical strategy that enables a lean team to move exceptionally quickly without sacrificing reliability or scalability
Identify and deploy modern AI-enabled engineering workflows, tooling, and infrastructure that increase developer leverage and execution speed
Stay deeply hands-on with architecture, implementation details, debugging, and technical problem-solving
Establish best practices around architecture, code quality, security, scalability, and AI-assisted development workflows
Partner closely with ML and research teams to bring AI-powered systems and algorithms into production
Lead, mentor, and grow Evvy’s engineering organization
Build a culture of ownership, urgency, product thinking, and technical excellence
Create an engineering organization that embraces modern tooling, rapid iteration, and continuous learning
Balance short-term product velocity with thoughtful infrastructure investments and long-term maintainability
Partner closely with the CEO on hiring, org design, and long-term technical strategy
Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Clinical, Operations, CX, Marketing, and Growth teams to build systems that solve real user problems
Ensure engineering decisions are grounded in user value, business impact, and operational scalability
Help shape roadmap prioritization, technical tradeoffs, and execution planning across the company
Serve as the voice of engineering across all levels of the organization
Own Evvy’s vision for platform security, privacy, and technical trust
Manage internal systems access and compliance processes related to sensitive healthcare and patient data
Evaluate new vendors, tools, and infrastructure through both technical and compliance lenses
Help ensure Evvy remains best-in-class in data privacy and responsible healthcare infrastructure