welltheory - Head of Engineering

• Build and grow the team. Run 1:1s, set a high bar, and own hiring, performance, and career growth. • Define how we ship. Design planning, code review, testing, release, and incident practices that are fast enough for a small AI-native team and rigorous enough for compliance. • Set technical direction. Make the foundational architecture calls with our founding engineer, so velocity holds as we scale the team and member base. • Own platform and DevOps. Set the roadmap, including non-prod environments that keep PHI out of day-to-day development. • Build compliance in, not on. Work with ops and compliance leads on the engineering side of HIPAA, SOC 2, and HITRUST. • Make AI core to how we build. Roll out coding agents, evals, and internal tooling that multiply every engineer’s impact. • Stay hands-on. Review code, pair on the hard problems, and ship when it’s the highest-leverage use of your time. • Shape the roadmap. Partner with our Staff PM and Product Design Lead on scope and tradeoffs. • Speak for engineering. Represent the team at the leadership table. • YOU MIGHT BE A GREAT FIT IF YOU... • Have led engineering teams through growth. You’ve managed senior ICs, built teams, and know what breaks at each stage and what to fix first. • Have built in a regulated environment. Healthcare, fintech, or another industry where data handling, security, and audits shape how you build. You treat compliance as table stakes, not a blocker. • Spot great talent. You can tell great from good in an interview or code review, and you hire for potential. • Stay hands-on. You’ve shipped production TypeScript or JavaScript recently and want to keep doing it. • Own systems. Reliability, observability, environments, and incident response are yours, not delegated. • Change how a team works with AI. You know how to help teams create leverage without also creating AI slop. • Partner without ego. You share ownership with strong product, design, and engineering leads and empower the team already in place. • Have partnered closely with product and design. You've worked in a model where engineering, product, and design shape the roadmap together, and you know what a healthy day-to-day partnership looks like. • Communicate clearly. We’re small and fully remote, so you write things down and document decisions. • This position requires current work authorization in the United States. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time. This role is US-based and requires access to protected health information.