Head of Platform Engineering & Data

Amigo Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Daily meals

Mental health support

Wellness stipend

Learning budget

Conference budget

Team offsite

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Amigo AI in New York City and San Francisco is seeking a Head of Engineering to own platform, backend, and data infrastructure that powers hospital-facing AI agents. You will lead and hire across application, backend and data teams, set technical direction, and partner with the CTO and product groups to translate customer needs into scalable systems.

The role blends technical leadership with product judgment, shaping the organization, culture, and long-term platform health while ensuring we

Qualifications

• A track record of engineering leadership in organizations with a strong engineering culture.
• Breadth across application, backend, infrastructure, and data platforms.
• Experience managing and developing engineers, including hiring, mentorship, and performance conversations.
• Strong technical background with ability to engage in system design, architecture, and tradeoffs.
• Ability to translate customer needs and engineering goals into a roadmap and then into shipped systems.
• Excellent communication across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams.
• Deep sense of ownership for both team outcomes and long-term system health.
• Comfort with ambiguity; priorities move as deployments teach us what customers actually need.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow engineering across application, backend and infrastructure, and data, supporting engineers with mentorship, direct feedback, and clear technical guidance
• Hire engineers and develop leaders, building a team that continuously raises its own bar
• Drive execution from problem definition through deployment, balancing speed with the reliability a clinical setting demands
• Engage deeply in technical discussions, guiding system design and helping the team navigate architectural tradeoffs
• Set the engineering culture: how we review code, how we ship, what we consider done, and how we respond when production issues arise
• Break large platform problems into increments that deliver value early while still supporting the platform’s long-term direction
• Partner with the Applied AI, Forward Deployed, and product teams to align priorities and decide what the platform should absorb versus what remains bespoke per customer
• Keep the team fluent in the reliability, security, and privacy implications of what they build in an environment involving patient data

Skills

Engineering leadership

Cross-domain breadth

People management

System design

Roadmap translation

Communication

Ownership

Ambiguity tolerance

Job description

Amigo AI in New York City and San Francisco is seeking a Head of Engineering to own platform, backend, and data infrastructure that powers hospital-facing AI agents. You will lead and hire across application, backend and data teams, set technical direction, and partner with the CTO and product groups to translate customer needs into scalable systems.

The role blends technical leadership with product judgment, shaping the organization, culture, and long-term platform health while ensuring we