Head of Engineering

Vital 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 Vital is now 18, with an engineering team of 6. Revenue has x6’d in the last year.
• Salary: ￡130 - 160K + early stage options
• Time zone: Fully remote but we want this person physically in GMT / BST timezone

Why we need you

Our engineering team of 6 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 out 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 don’t need experience in healthtech but you should have a genuine interest in improving healthcare and where our product can go to transform lives. You want to dig deep into healthcare to tackle the underlying problems
• Technical skills: 7+ 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’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

• 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

How you’ll be compensated

• Salary - £130 - 160K

• The salary above is generated by our transparent salary calculator. The calculation is based on San Francisco as a location, 50th percentile, with location factors from Gitlab’s handbook - we’ve spent a lot of time making compensation fair at Vital. More information is here.

• Regular in person offsites, next one is Morocco

• 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

• Generous early stage options (extended exercise post 2 years employment)

• Healthcare cover depending on location

• New MacBook

Oh and before we forget:

• Our API docs are here
• Our tech stack is: Python(Fast API), Go, Typescript, React, React Native, GCP.

• 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