What are the responsibilities and job description for the Vice President of Engineering position at advisorey.?
Our client, a Series B HealthTech startup, is looking for a VP, Engineering to join their team.
About the Role
- Lead, mentor, and scale a distributed engineering organization across NYC and Vancouver
- 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
About You:
- Proven experience leading, managing, and scaling a distributed engineering organization, including direct ownership of recruiting, hiring, and headcount planning.
- 5 years in a VP, Engineering role ideally at an early-stage startup
- Expertise in 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 in a HIPAA or other regulated industry.
- Track record of driving and implementing reliability and scalability solutions, particularly for platforms handling real-time (audio/SMS) and long-running asynchronous data workflows.
- Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Product and Operations leadership to translate business priorities into a clear, actionable engineering roadmap.
Qualified candidates please submit your resume to Chessa Eskandanian-Yee: chessa@advisorey.com
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