Remote VP of Engineering: Lead Architecture & Growth

Tiny Health; United States; On-site; USD 200,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Tiny Health is seeking its first VP of Engineering to own engineering end-to-end. You will lead a ~12-engineer team across pods, setting architecture strategy, hiring, and people management under the co-founder and growth officer.

The role blends hands-on coding with leadership, in a remote-first environment, reporting to the co-founder. You will craft scalable systems, mentor engineers, and align engineering with business strategy, product roadmaps, and company objectives while communicating

Qualifications

• Have directly managed and led engineers, including running 1:1s, performance, and individual growth.
• Operate as a hands-on builder who still writes and reviews code and works directly in the system, not a pure people-leader.
• Can engage senior engineers on architecture and scaling tradeoffs at their depth and earn their respect.
• Experience serving as the sole voice for engineering among business and product leaders. Take a clear, bold position in the best interest of both engineering and the company, command the tradeoffs, and move the room through reasoning rather than authority.
• Have run an engineering org or team of comparable size (roughly 10 to 12 engineers).
• Have scaled a team from a single- or two-pod structure into a larger org with tech leads and engineering managers.
• A track record of developing engineers and leveling existing talent up into senior or lead roles.
• Have personally sourced, closed, and onboarded engineers who became A-players.
• Experience in a healthcare, HIPAA, or SOC 2 compliant environment.
• Structure messy, ambiguous data into a conclusion you can defend.

Responsibilities

• Become the terminal owner of engineering. Resolve technical and people decisions by convening the right people and acting on a strong point of view, rather than routing decisions upward.
• Build an engineering performance system that measures real individual impact beyond ticket volume, accounting for quality, reliability, and the non-project work people absorb, and use it to surface and act on both your strongest and your struggling engineers.
• Set and continuously evolve the architecture and scaling strategy, informed by product and executive context, and use your influence to get that work onto pod roadmaps and shipped, so every pod is executing against a shared technical vision.
• Represent engineering at executive tables. Keep executive stakeholders and colleagues informed of decisions within engineering and product that have downstream impacts across marketing, business development, operations and partnerships. Be able to collaborate effectively cross-departmentally.
• Build the team: find where the gaps are, hire people who hold the bar, give every engineer a clear growth path, develop existing engineers into tech leads, and make sure each pod is resourced to deliver its roadmap.

Skills

Led engineers

Hands-on coding

Architecture tradeoffs

Sole voice for engineering

Team growth

Org scaling

Engineering talent development

Talent sourcing/onboarding

Healthcare security environment

Data structuring for conclusions

Job description

Tiny Health is seeking its first VP of Engineering to own engineering end-to-end. You will lead a ~12-engineer team across pods, setting architecture strategy, hiring, and people management under the co-founder and growth officer.

The role blends hands-on coding with leadership, in a remote-first environment, reporting to the co-founder. You will craft scalable systems, mentor engineers, and align engineering with business strategy, product roadmaps, and company objectives while communicating