Head of Engineering
About The Position
WellTheory is hiring its first Head of Engineering to lead a largely self-directed engineering team and establish the company’s engineering processes, quality standards, technical direction, and hiring approach. This is a player-coach role: approximately 20–30% of the time is spent working in the codebase, with the remainder focused on team leadership, platform development, and collaboration with product, design, and company leadership. The role reports to the Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer. WellTheory is a Series A digital health company with a team of 60+ people. Its technology includes a member app, internal tools for its Care Team, and insurance and data infrastructure connecting the company with employers, health plans, and channel partners. Systems are built with HIPAA and SOC 2 Type 2 in mind. The Head of Engineering will help the company scale while maintaining engineering velocity, reliability, security, and compliance. The role is US-based, fully remote, requires access to protected health information, and requires current US work authorization; visa sponsorship is not available.
Requirements
- Experience leading engineering teams through growth, including managing senior individual contributors and building teams.
- Experience building in a regulated environment where data handling, security, and audits affect engineering practices.
- Recent experience shipping production TypeScript or JavaScript, with interest in remaining hands-on.
- Ownership of reliability, observability, environments, and incident response.
- Ability to help teams use AI tools to increase leverage while maintaining quality.
- Ability to partner collaboratively with product, design, and engineering leads and empower an established team.
- Experience partnering closely with product and design to shape roadmaps and support healthy day-to-day collaboration.
- Clear written communication and documentation skills.
- Current authorization to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is not available.
- Ability to access protected health information.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in digital health or B2B2C healthcare, with understanding of eligibility, claims, or care-delivery tooling.
- Experience leading a SOC 2 or HITRUST effort from the engineering side.
- A notable personal achievement, such as running a marathon, starting a company, earning a degree while working full-time, or overcoming significant adversity.
Responsibilities
- Build and grow the engineering team, including conducting 1:1s and owning hiring, performance, and career growth.
- Establish planning, code review, testing, release, and incident-response practices that support both speed and compliance.
- Set foundational technical and architectural direction with the founding engineer.
- Own the platform and DevOps roadmap, including non-production environments that keep protected health information out of day-to-day development.
- Partner with operations and compliance leads on engineering aspects of HIPAA, SOC 2, and HITRUST.
- Make AI a core part of engineering by rolling out coding agents, evaluations, and internal tools.
- Stay hands-on through code review, pairing on difficult problems, and shipping when appropriate.
- Shape the roadmap in partnership with the Staff PM and Product Design Lead, including scope and tradeoffs.
- Represent engineering at the leadership table.
- Write clearly and document decisions in a small, fully remote company.
Benefits
- Fully remote work.
- Annual company retreat.
- A team that cares about one another and the members it serves.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
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