Vice President of Engineering

Our client, a Series B HealthTech startup, is looking for a VP, Engineering to join their team.

About the Role

• Lead, mentor, and scale a distributed engineering organization across NYC and Vancouver
• Own engineering recruiting strategy, hiring standards, organizational design, and headcount planning
• Define and drive technical strategy across backend services, infrastructure, integrations, and platform architecture
• Guide scalability and reliability initiatives for systems supporting real-time patient communications (audio and SMS) and asynchronous workflow processing
• Own infrastructure strategy, including cloud architecture, CI/CD, observability, deployment automation, and operational excellence
• Establish engineering best practices for security, compliance, resiliency, and performance in a HIPAA-compliant environment
• Partner closely with Product and Operations leadership to align engineering priorities with company goals and roadmap execution
• Improve engineering velocity, system reliability, and cross-functional collaboration as the organization scales

About You:

• Proven experience leading, managing, and scaling a distributed engineering organization, including direct ownership of recruiting, hiring, and headcount planning.
• 5\+ years in a VP, Engineering role ideally at an early-stage startup
• Expertise in setting technical direction, architectural standards, and driving large-scale infrastructure decisions across backend services and complex integrations.
• Deep experience establishing and enforcing engineering standards and operating compliant, fault-tolerant production environments, preferably in a HIPAA or other regulated industry.
• Track record of driving and implementing reliability and scalability solutions, particularly for platforms handling real-time (audio/SMS) and long-running asynchronous data workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Product and Operations leadership to translate business priorities into a clear, actionable engineering roadmap.

Qualified candidates please submit your resume to Chessa Eskandanian-Yee: chessa@advisorey.com

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