Vice President of Software Engineering

VP of Engineering, Series A Healthtech, New York, $250k-$300k + Bonus + equityYou have already built and scaled an engineering team once. Now you want the next mountain.A Series A healthtech company in New York closed a strong round recently and needs its first VP of Engineering. The founding team has been shipping fast with a lean group of engineers. Growth has outpaced structure. This is the gap you fill.This company treats clinical data with the seriousness it deserves and moves at startup speed. Revenue is growing month over month. The next twelve months are about hiring the right senior engineers, tightening architecture decisions, and turning a founder-led team into a real engineering org. The board has already flagged this seat as the path to CTO once the company hits its Series B milestones.What you will own:Build the engineering hiring plan and hire the first 5-8 senior engineersSet technical direction across the core product and data infrastructureReport directly to the Founder and sit close to every major product decisionOwn delivery speed without sacrificing security or compliance standardsMentor a small group of engineers into senior and staff rolesWhat you bring:Five or more years leading engineering teams inside a startup or scaleupDirect experience hiring and structuring an engineering org from scratchComfort operating in a regulated space, such as health data or HIPAAA track record of shipping product fast without breaking trustStrong opinions on architecture, held loosely enough to adaptWhat you get:$250,000-$300,000 base plus equityA seat at the leadership table from day oneNew York based, hybrid setupDirect ownership over how this engineering org gets builtIf you are leading engineering somewhere right now and the ceiling feels close, this is worth a conversation. No need to send a polished CV. Reply with a few lines about what you are building today and I will get back to you.