Technical Lead, Patient Engagement Apps

Pomelo Care; United States; Remote; USD 220,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, Vision coverage for员工和

HSA options

FSA

Equity grant participation

401(k) program

Generous vacation policy

16 weeks paid parental leave

Fully remote within the US

Job summary

Pomelo Care is the leading virtual medical practice for women and children, delivering care across pregnancy, postpartum, pediatrics, menopause, and perimenopause.

You will serve as the technical lead for patient interactions from enrollment through the entire journey, shaping features that engage patients, reduce risk, and personalize care. You’ll oversee patient-facing apps and define scalable engagement models for a nationwide audience in the continental US.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience building and shipping consumer or patient-facing products.
• Have served as a technical lead on a team, setting architecture direction and mentoring other engineers.
• Comfortable working across the full stack and moving quickly in a startup environment.
• Up to date with trends in LLM coding agents to multiply your engineering impact.
• Enjoy collaborating closely with product and design, not just executing on specs.
• Experience with React Native or cross-platform mobile frameworks.
• Built products in healthcare, wellness, or other high-trust consumer domains.
• Have worked on engagement, retention, or onboarding flows and understand what makes users stick around.
• Have prior experience with AI/ML or building agent-based systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical direction for our mobile development strategy and patient-facing apps, shaping how tens of thousands of patients experience Pomelo
• Rapidly prototype and ship features in our patient mobile and web apps alongside design and product, using AI tools to move fast and test ideas that meaningfully improve engagement and retention
• Help steer product direction for how we support and retain patients in their critical first month with Pomelo, when the window to affect outcomes is widest
• Talk directly to patients and partner with product, design, and clinical teams to turn real needs into real features
• Mentor and grow junior engineers, raising the bar for the whole team
• Set the technical standards, architecture patterns, and development practices that our patient-facing products are built on

Skills

Technical leadership

React Native

Full stack startup

Cross-functional collaboration

AI/ML

Engagement/ onboarding

Healthcare apps

Product/design collaboration

LLM trends

Tools

Expo

React

TypeScript

Kotlin

SQL

Job description

Pomelo Care is the leading virtual medical practice for women and children, delivering care across pregnancy, postpartum, pediatrics, menopause, and perimenopause.

You will serve as the technical lead for patient interactions from enrollment through the entire journey, shaping features that engage patients, reduce risk, and personalize care. You’ll oversee patient-facing apps and define scalable engagement models for a nationwide audience in the continental US.