Vice President of Software Engineering

BizTech Staffing; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

BizTech Staffing placement seeks an executive to scale an engineering organization for a healthcare technology platform. The VP of Engineering will lead a distributed team across two North American offices, shaping architecture, infrastructure, and operating practices to support real-time patient communications and long-running workflows.

You will own recruiting, set technical standards, drive platform strategy, and partner with Product and Operations to align priorities with the roadmap while

Qualifications

• Experience leading and scaling a distributed engineering org.
• Experience setting technical direction and architectural standards at scale.
• Ability to operate compliant, fault-tolerant production environments (HIPAA preferred).
• Track record building reliability and scalability for real-time/audio or SMS workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale a distributed engineering organization across two sites.
• Own engineering recruiting strategy, hiring standards, and headcount planning.
• Define and drive technical strategy across backend services, infra, and platform architecture.
• Guide scalability and reliability for real-time communications and asynchronous data workflows.
• Own infrastructure strategy including cloud, CI/CD, observability, and deployment automation.
• Establish engineering best practices for security, compliance, resiliency and performance in a HIPAA-compliant environment.
• Partner with Product and Operations to align engineering with company goals and roadmap.
• Improve engineering velocity, reliability and cross-functional collaboration as the org scales.

Skills

Leadership

Recruiting strategy

Technical direction

HIPAA/compliance

Distributed leadership

Education

Bachelor's in CS or related

Tools

Git

AWS

CI/CD tooling

Observability tooling

Job description

Our client is a growing healthcare technology company operating a patient-facing platform in a regulated environment. The platform handles real-time patient communications alongside long-running asynchronous workflows, and the engineering organization is distributed across two North American offices.

The company is past early-stage and scaling. The engineering function needs the structure, standards and leadership to grow with it.

THE ROLE

• This is a foundational executive leadership role responsible for scaling the engineering organization, the technical infrastructure, and the company's operational maturity.
• As VP of Engineering you will lead a distributed engineering team across two offices while shaping the systems, processes and architecture required to support a rapidly growing healthcare platform in a regulated environment.
• Success means building a high-performing engineering culture, delivering reliable and scalable systems, and laying the technical foundation for long-term business growth.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Lead, mentor and scale a distributed engineering organization across two sites.
• Own engineering recruiting strategy, hiring standards, organizational design and headcount planning.
• Define and drive technical strategy across backend services, infrastructure, integrations and platform architecture.
• Guide scalability and reliability initiatives for systems supporting real-time patient communications (audio and SMS) and asynchronous workflow processing.
• Own infrastructure strategy, including cloud architecture, CI/CD, observability, deployment automation and operational excellence.
• Establish engineering best practices for security, compliance, resiliency and performance in a HIPAA-compliant environment.
• Partner closely with Product and Operations leadership to align engineering priorities with company goals and roadmap execution.
• Improve engineering velocity, system reliability and cross-functional collaboration as the organization scales.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Proven experience leading, managing and scaling a distributed engineering organization, including direct ownership of recruiting, hiring and headcount planning.
• Expertise setting technical direction, architectural standards and driving large-scale infrastructure decisions across backend services and complex integrations.
• Deep experience establishing and enforcing engineering standards, and operating compliant, fault-tolerant production environments preferably under HIPAA or another regulated framework.
• Track record implementing reliability and scalability solutions, particularly for platforms handling real-time audio or SMS and long-running asynchronous data workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with Product and Operations leadership to translate business priorities into a clear, actionable engineering roadmap.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Healthcare technology or SaaS platform experience at a mid-sized startup.
• Familiarity with HL7, FHIR or EHR integrations.
• Cloud platform experience AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation and version control (Git).
• Experience working in a monorepo setup such as Turborepo or Nx.
• Distributed data or batch processing frameworks Apache Spark, Databricks or similar.
• DevOps practices including containerization, observability and deployment automation.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Distributed remote team with hybrid offices in two North American metros.
• Regular and consistent in-person collaboration is required
• Highly collaborative culture with video-on team meetings and technical discussions.