Head of Engineering

Lamar Health; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity 0.5-2%

Job summary

Lamar Health is seeking a Head of Engineering in San Francisco or remote (US) to bridge platform needs with real-world health system workflows. You’ll work with the CEO, sales, engineers, and customers to design solutions that improve patient outcomes and care efficiency.

The role combines hands-on coding with building teams and processes to scale, guiding architecture decisions, and driving impact across the product.

Qualifications

• 4 to 7 years of software engineering experience in production.
• Experience with Python or TypeScript and modern stack.
• Proven ability to lead teams and deliver impact in healthcare tech.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product and engineering to define the roadmap based on real-world needs.
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and extendibility of the core product.
• Manage the engineering team and implement systems for growth; hands-on 50% coding, 50% leadership.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Leadership

Software Architecture

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

# Head of EngineeringFull-time · San Francisco or remote (US)Location: San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)Compensation: $120K to $270KEquity: 0.50% to 2.00%Experience: 4 to 7 years## About the RoleAs Head of Engineering at Lamar Health, you’ll bridge the gap between our core platform and the real-world needs of our customers: health systems, clinics, and care teams. You’ll work hand-in-hand with our CEO, sales, engineers and customers to understand their workflows, design solutions that streamline operations, and ensure that our technology drives measurable impact in patient outcomes and care efficiency. We are looking for a player-coach type personality that loves to live in the code and build process, teams and systems to help scale for our next phase of growth.## What You’ll Do* Collaborate with product and engineering teams to develop the roadmap based on real-world customer needs.* Help ensure reliability, scalability and extendibility of our core product offering.* Help decide what we DO NOT do.* Manage the engineering team and set up systems and processes for growth and development.* Be a hands on player-coach for the team, 50% of the time in the code and 50% managing.## Who You Are* You have 4 to 7 years of experience building and shipping software in production (Python, TypeScript, or similar).* You’re excited about the intersection of technology, healthcare, and product thinking.* You’re comfortable in ambiguity, prioritizing impact over perfection.* You value outcome based engineering.* You value empathy and communication as much as technical skill.* You want to see your work directly improve healthcare delivery and patient experience.## Bonus Points* Projects you’ve worked on and can share.* Comfort working in regulated or privacy-sensitive environments (HIPAA, SOC 2).## Why You’ll Love Working at Lamar Health* Impact: Your work will touch real clinics, doctors, and patients. Every deployment matters.* Ownership: You’ll shape how our platform is used in the field and help define our product direction.* Growth: Work cross-functionally with engineers, clinicians, and product leaders solving complex, meaningful problems.* Mission: Join a team genuinely driven to make healthcare more human, efficient, and connected.* Team: People that move the ball with you to get things done.Apply for this roleAll rolesApplications go to [e-mail].