Head of Engineering
About The Position
Photon is looking for a Head of Engineering to scale its engineering organization. This is the top technical leadership role, accountable for engineering across the platform, including patient experience, customer integrations, and the infrastructure connecting prescribers, patients, and pharmacies. The role involves setting technical direction, growing and developing a team, and owning the build process across the organization. The Head of Engineering will be part of the leadership team, partnering with the CEO, Product, Design, Commercial, and Ops to determine what to build, the pace, and the cost. Responsibilities include organizational structure, technical strategy, talent acquisition and retention, and ensuring the reliability of critical infrastructure. This role is ideal for someone who has scaled engineering teams in complex environments, can set direction independently, and desires ownership of a function at a significant growth stage.
Requirements
- 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
Nice To Haves
- Experience in healthcare, fintech, or other complex, regulated environments
- Experience building or owning infrastructure platforms
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks (HIPAA, SOC 2)
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
Benefits
- Equity and benefits
- High trust, high standards
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
