Head of Engineering

Evvy

$160K — $200K *
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of engineering experience, with 4+ in leadership roles
  • Proven track record in scaling engineering teams during high-growth phases
  • Experience with consumer-facing platforms and data-intensive products
  • Strong skills in modern architecture and AI-enabled systems
  • Expertise in modern engineering stacks including Python/Django, React, and AWS
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and maintain a hands-on technical presence

Responsibilities

  • Translate company vision into a technical roadmap
  • Define architecture and strategy for rapid execution without compromising quality
  • Identify and implement AI-enabled engineering workflows
  • Maintain hands-on involvement in technical problem-solving
  • Establish best practices for code quality and security
  • Collaborate with research teams to integrate AI systems into production
  • Lead engineering team development and foster a culture of excellence

Benefits

  • Flexible PTO
  • $1K learning and development budget
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance, plus HSA plans
  • 401(k) plan (Roth and traditional)
  • Monthly team events
  • Free Evvy membership
  • Paid parental leave
Full Job Description
The Role

We're looking for a Head of Engineering to help build the technical foundation for the future of women's healthcare.

At Evvy, engineering sits at the center of everything we do - from diagnostics and patient experiences to AI-powered personalization, clinical operations, and data infrastructure. This role is about using modern engineering and AI-native development to dramatically increase the speed, leverage, and ambition of what a small team can accomplish.

As Head of Engineering, you'll report directly to the CEO and lead Evvy's technical vision, architecture, and execution as we scale. You'll oversee the evolution of our platform across patient experiences, internal tooling, AI-powered workflows, clinical infrastructure, and data systems - helping ensure we move quickly without compromising quality, reliability, or trust.

We're looking for someone deeply hands-on and intensely product-minded. You should be excited about working directly in the weeds with the team: reviewing architecture decisions, unblocking engineers, experimenting with new tooling, prototyping systems, and helping the organization adopt the newest AI-enabled development workflows. You should have strong instincts for how modern engineering organizations operate in an AI-native world - where lean, highly-leveraged teams can execute roadmaps that previously required significantly larger organizations.

Evvy is a primarily in-person team based in NYC. Given the cross-functional nature of this role, our ideal candidate is located in NYC.

What You'll Do

Technical Vision & AI-Native Execution
  • 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

Engineering Leadership & Culture
  • 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

Product & Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • 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

Security, Privacy & Infrastructure
  • 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


What We're Looking For

You are:
  • 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


You have:
  • 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.)


Helpful but not required:
  • 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


Working at Evvy

Evvy is a primarily in-person team based in New York, NY with a strong culture of collaboration and connection. We work from the office 4 days a week (Wednesdays remote), and we genuinely enjoy spending time together: team dinners, happy hours, and shared wins are part of the rhythm here.

Our Values

Start with the why. We tie everything back to a user need or company goal.
Figure it out. We take initiative, embrace ambiguity, and build from first principles.
Create win-wins. We solve problems with patients, partners, and the business in mind.
Own it to the end. We close every loop and take pride in the details.
Stay eleven steps ahead. We anticipate, plan, and act with foresight and speed.

Company Benefits
  • Flexible PTO
  • $1K learning and development budget
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance, plus HSA plans
  • 401(k) plan (Roth and traditional)
  • Monthly team events
  • Free Evvy membership
  • Paid parental leave

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