Head of Engineering

Head of Engineering at Junction (W20) $200K - $300K API for at-home health data GB / PT / US / Remote (GB; PT; US) Full-time US citizen/visa only 6+ years About Junction 🔎 Junction's (formerly Vital) mission is to revolutionize how healthcare is delivered today, by making it easier for digital health companies to launch their products. 💻 Junction is an API for at-home health data, and we are making it easy for developers to build virtual-first healthcare app's on top of our platform. We have built a wearables API and at-home test kit API and our current docs can be found at docs.tryvital.io. We're building Twilio for healthcare. About the role Junction helps leading digital health and wellness companies connect to wearable and lab data, through a single universal API. Our mission is to decrease the cost to predict, diagnose and prevent chronic disease by two orders of magnitude. Healthcare is in a crisis, help us fix this for the humans behind the results. With more and more data being collected from wearables, lab tests and patient-doctor conversations, we’re entering an era where data is abundant. We need people like you who are passionate about how technology can supercharge healthcare. We’ve got some of the greatest hearts and minds from Babylon, Ro, SpaceX, and Monzo - working to solve one of the biggest challenges of our time: making personalized, proactive, and affordable healthcare a reality. Backed by Point Nine, 20VC, YC, and leading angels, we’re connecting millions already. 🏃🏼 Short on time? You: A mission-driven, technical Head of Engineering Ownership: Build, grow and lead a high-performing engineering team so that they can execute the most technical challenges in healthcare today Us: Team Junction is now 32, with an engineering team of 7. Revenue has x6’d in the last year Time zones: Fully remote (either London or EST based near New York or Boston) Why we need you Our engineering team of 7 has been built by our Founder, Maitham (ML Engineer from Babylon Health) who cares deeply about building a world class engineering culture (read more here). We’re now in scaling mode, revenue has x6’d in the last year and we’re connecting millions of patients via our platform so it’s a perfect time for a Head of Engineering. What you’ll be doing Leading and growing the team: Hiring exceptional engineers, setting them up for success and supporting them to do their best work so that the product roadmap is delivered in the most impactful way possible for our customers Help the team to deliver product: Working with Boris and the engineering team to make sure product progress is on track and challenges are discussed early to protect engineering time Remaining technical: Given our size, you’ll be partnering with technical leads and engineers on granular technical decisions, reviewing PR’s and RFCs, unblocking issues and being involved in solving some of the hardest problems in healthcare Strengthen our engineering culture: Work with our engineers to champion strong engineering practices; encourage knowledge sharing; develop communication guidelines and encourage ownership and autonomous working Who you are and what learned skills you have Motivations: You are completely passionate about fixing healthcare. Experience working in the healthcare, especially in the US is a nice to have. Technical skills: 5+ years engineering experience. This is a highly technical engineering leadership role, getting into the weeds with engineers. You’ve built products for millions before at a startup to scale up with a strong engineering culture. Python & Go are our main languages, but it’s not required to be fluent in it People-first management: a few years in a engineering management role during fast headcount growth, with a remote-first team. You have managed over 6+ engineers. You’re a coach, you have high trust in your team and know how to grow and hire engineers Team leadership: you have experience leading an engineering team. You know what it takes to deliver a product roadmap in the most efficient, impactful way and putting into process to strengthen strong engineering practices How we’ll get to know you 1 - Initial Call: 30 mins our search firm 2 - Behavioural interview: 60 mins with Maitham and Boris 3a - Pair programming: 80 mins (+ 15 minutes get to know) 3b - System Design: 60 mins (+ 15 minutes get to know) In person time to understand the business more with Maitham and Boris 4 - Working sessions: with Maitham & Boris How you’ll be compensated We will benchmark your salary based on your location and experience. Your salary is dependant on your location and experience level, generated by our salary calculator. Read more in our handbook here. Generous early stage options (extended exercise post 2 years employment) - you will receive 3 offers based on how much equity you'd like Regular in person offsites, last were in Morocco and Tenerife Bi-weekly team happy hours & events remotely Monthly learning budget of $300 for personal development/productivity Flexible, remote-first working - including $1K for home office equipment 25 days off a year + national holidays Healthcare cover depending on location New laptop Technology 👾 Our Tech Stack Full-stack Engineer- Python(Fast API), Typescript, React, React Native, (Swift is added bonus) GCP Interview Process Initial Call: 30 mins with Beth Behavioural interview: 60 mins with Maitham and Boris Pair programming: 80 mins (+ 15 minutes get to know) System Design: 60 mins (+ 15 minutes get to know) Leadership and Team Management: 60 mins with Maitham & Aditya