Founding VP, Technology & Engineering

SWGA Homecare; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Part time

Job summary

SWGA Homecare in the United States seeks a founding VP of Technology & Engineering to build platform architecture, product direction, and engineering standards from the ground up.

This remote, part-time contractor role blends hands-on development with strategic leadership, guiding security, data exchange with clinics, and provider networks.

As the company grows, you will scale the engineering function and align technical decisions with regulatory health information privacy requirements.

Qualifications

• Senior engineering leadership experience, ideally founding or first-engineer role.
• Hands-on design and shipping of production web platforms.
• Working knowledge of health information privacy and security requirements.
• Experience with healthcare data exchange standards a strong plus.
• Comfort operating with limited resources in a pre-launch company.

Responsibilities

• Own platform architecture and product roadmap.
• Set engineering standards, code review practices, and release discipline.
• Design and maintain safeguards that protect health information.
• Own access controls, session handling, and encryption practices.
• Lead security reviews of third-party vendors and services.
• Architect data exchange with partner clinics and provider record systems.
• Own electronic visit verification and field data reliability.
• Plan infrastructure, monitoring, and uptime as usage grows.
• Represent technical architecture in partner and investor diligence reviews.
• Build and lead the engineering function as funding allows.

Skills

Senior engineering leadership

Hands-on platform development

Health data privacy knowledge

Healthcare data exchange standards

Job description

# Founding VP, Technology & EngineeringOwns the company's technology architecture. This is an entrepreneurial founding-stage opportunity to build the platform, engineering standards, and security architecture from the ground up.All open positions**Employment type:** Part-time, Contractor (strategic executive), with potential to expand as funding and company operations grow.**Location:** Remote (US)## The missionOwn platform architecture, product direction, and engineering standards for the systems that coordinate care — client and family portals, caregiver scheduling and visit verification, and the tools supporting our provider network — while setting the technical safeguards that protect health information.## What you'll own* Own platform architecture and the product roadmap* Set engineering standards, code review practices, and release discipline* Design and maintain the technical safeguards that protect health information* Own access controls, session handling, and encryption practices* Lead security reviews of third-party vendors and services* Architect data exchange with partner clinics and provider record systems* Own electronic visit verification and field data reliability* Plan infrastructure, monitoring, and uptime as usage grows* Represent the technical architecture in partner and investor diligence reviews* Build and lead the engineering function as funding allows## Bootstrap orientationWe are looking for an entrepreneurial engineering leader who is comfortable creating a technology function from the ground up, moving between hands-on build work and architectural decisions, working with limited resources, and communicating directly with the founder and executive leadership team.## Preferred background* Senior engineering leadership experience, ideally including a founding or first-engineer role* Hands-on experience designing and shipping production web platforms* Working knowledge of health information privacy and security requirements* Experience with healthcare data exchange standards is a strong plus* Comfortable operating with limited resources at a pre-launch company* Clear communicator with non-technical executives and partnersApply now