Head of Engineering
About this role
Head of Engineering
Job Type: Full-Time
Location: Onsite – San Francisco, CA
Compensation: $250K base + 1.5% equity
Role Overview
Seeking a Head of Engineering to lead and collaborate closely with product, pharmacy, and clinical teams. This role requires a highly creative technical leader with strong product instincts and deep familiarity with modern AI tools, workflows, and rapid prototyping.
Must-Have Qualifications
Creative technical leadership — Strong product instincts and ability to guide ambitious projects.
AI expertise — Deep familiarity with modern AI tools, models, and prototyping.
AI-driven mindset — Uses AI as part of building, thinking, and shipping.
Team leadership — Experience leading engineering teams and building ambitious consumer products.
Hands-on approach — Comfortable across product, backend systems, data infrastructure, AI workflows, and internal tooling.
Quality judgment — Strong judgment around quality, speed, privacy, and reliability.
Healthcare interest — Excitement about healthcare, longevity, and building in regulated environments.
Onsite collaboration — Desire to work closely with the team onsite in San Francisco.
Key Responsibilities
Patient experience — Build systems for peptide discovery, clinical intake, prescriptions, subscriptions, fulfillment, and ongoing care.
Health data layer — Connect labs, medical history, prescriptions, symptoms, biometrics, wearables, and patient-reported outcomes.
Recommendation systems — Develop peptide and protocol recommendations with clinical oversight and safety guardrails.
Clinical tools — Create tools for chart review, patient communication, follow-ups, and protocol management.
Pharmacy software — Manage sourcing, testing, transparency, inventory, fulfillment, and quality systems.
Internal systems — Support both direct-to-consumer and B2B pharmacy/clinical platforms.
Engineering culture — Establish team, architecture, and culture to scale quickly while maintaining patient trust.
About the Organization
A healthcare-focused technology company reimagining how people access and manage their health. Combining a seamless consumer experience with a full-stack clinic, pharmacy, and patient communication layer, the organization makes high-quality care more accessible, trustworthy, and beautifully designed. Backed by leading investors, it moves quickly and believes the best health products should feel as polished as the best consumer apps.
- Fully remote contract role open to candidates in San Francisco, United States.
- Compensation: $250,000/year, paid in USD.
- Vetted and managed by Recruitment Room — no placement fees for candidates.
- Flexible hours; part-time and full-time engagements available.
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