Remote Head of Engineering — AI-Driven Health Tech

WellTheory Technologies, Inc.; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote company

Annual company retreat

Job summary

WellTheory Technologies, Inc. is seeking its Head of Engineering to lead a fast-growing, mostly remote team. You’ll drive technical direction, hiring, and product-aligned execution while ensuring compliance with HIPAA and SOC 2 requirements.

Expect a player-coach role with time split between coding and leadership, reporting to the Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer. You’ll shape platform architecture, DevOps, and the roadmap, partner closely with product and design, and champion high standards

Qualifications

• Led engineering teams through growth and scale, with emphasis on candiate evaluation and team alignment.
• Experience building in regulated environments (healthcare/fintech) where audits and security shape delivery.
• Ability to spot top talent and hire for potential.
• Hands-on recent experience shipping production TypeScript or JavaScript code.
• Owns systems, reliability, observability, environments and incident response.
• Experience shaping roadmaps with product/design and partnering with leadership on strategy.
• Strong written communication and collaboration in a fully remote setting.

Responsibilities

• Build and grow the team. Run 1:1s, set a high bar, own hiring and careers.
• Define how we ship: planning, review, testing, release, and incident practices.
• Set technical direction and foundational architecture with the founding engineer.
• Own platform and DevOps, roadmap, and PHI protection in non-prod environments.
• Incorporate HIPAA, SOC 2, and HITRUST considerations into engineering work.
• Advance AI core tooling and coding agents to boost engineer impact.
• Stay hands-on with code review and solving high-leverage problems.
• Shape the roadmap with product/design leadership on scope and tradeoffs.
• Represent engineering in leadership discussions.

Skills

Team leadership

Hiring & mentoring

TypeScript/JavaScript

DevOps

AI/ML tooling

Regulated environments

Quality & testing processes

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

WellTheory Technologies, Inc. is seeking its Head of Engineering to lead a fast-growing, mostly remote team. You’ll drive technical direction, hiring, and product-aligned execution while ensuring compliance with HIPAA and SOC 2 requirements.

Expect a player-coach role with time split between coding and leadership, reporting to the Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer. You’ll shape platform architecture, DevOps, and the roadmap, partner closely with product and design, and champion high standards