Evvy
Head of Engineering
New York City · Exec
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 63 days ago
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About the role
- 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.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with ML and research teams to bring AI-powered systems and algorithms into production
- Lead, mentor, and grow Evvy's engineering organization
- Build a culture of ownership, urgency, product thinking, and technical excellence
- Partner closely with the CEO on hiring, org design, and long-term technical strategy
- Top tier team, investors, and partners.
Requirements
- 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 deploying modern AI tooling and workflows across software development processes
- Experience hiring, mentoring, and managing engineers while remaining highly technical yourself
Skills
- 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
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and making thoughtful decisions with imperfect information
- A strong technical leader who can balance speed, quality, scalability, and pragmatism
- An exceptional communicator across technical and non-technical stakeholders
Compensation
- Evvy has generated the world's largest vaginal microbiome dataset from 100,000+ patients, uncovering novel biological markers underlying women's health conditions that collectively cost the healthcare system $180B+ annually.
Benefits
- $1K learning and development budget
- Health, dental, and vision insurance, plus HSA plans
- Paid parental leave
- As Head of Engineering, you'll report directly to the CEO and lead Evvy's technical vision, architecture, and execution as we scale.
- Technical Vision & AI-Native Execution
- Translate Evvy's company and product vision into a scalable technical roadmap across engineering, AI, and data infrastructure
- Create an engineering organization that embraces modern tooling, rapid iteration, and continuous learning
Company info
- 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.
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