[Hiring] Senior Vice President of Engineering @Covera Health

Role Description

As Senior Vice President of Engineering, you will lead Covera Health's Engineering and Platform/IT organizations, with direct ownership of our technology architecture, engineering standards, and technical execution. You will lead a technology organization of approximately 30 people, including Engineering and AI, and play an active role in the technical decisions that shape our products and platforms.

Reporting to the Chief Product & Technology Officer, you will serve as a deeply technical and operational partner to a strategically focused technology executive. You will own day-to-day engineering execution, architecture, technical quality, and reliability, making decisions independently while working closely with the CPTO on broader product and technology strategy.

You will lead a small but mighty team, leveraging modern AI-powered development practices and state-of-the-art tools to accelerate development, improve efficiency, and deliver high-quality solutions. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will stay close to the work, participating in architecture and design reviews, working through complex data platform challenges, and helping teams resolve critical production issues.

As a senior technology leader with strong product instincts, you will connect technology decisions to customer and business needs. You will serve as a critical bridge between Engineering and teams across the company, ensuring technical decisions support the products we're building and the problems we're solving for customers and patients.

In this role, you will be expected to:

• Lead a technology organization of approximately 30 people across Engineering, AI, and Platform/IT, remaining closely involved in architecture, technical decisions, and engineering execution.
• Partner with the CPTO to turn product and company strategy into technical execution, independently owning engineering decisions, architecture, technical quality, and day-to-day delivery.
• Lead and develop a small group of engineering leaders while staying directly connected to the teams and the technical challenges they are solving.
• Improve engineering effectiveness through strong technical practices, clear priorities, practical processes, and a focus on delivering reliable, high-quality software.
• Bring strong product judgment to technology decisions, ensuring Engineering understands the customer, product, and business context behind what we build and how we prioritize.
• Serve as a key bridge between Engineering and Product, Data, AI, Clinical, Operations, Security, and other teams, working directly with stakeholders to solve problems, prioritize technical investments, and move work forward.
• Own technical architecture and engineering standards across application development, cloud infrastructure, data platforms and pipelines, integrations, and enterprise technology. Stay actively involved in design reviews and complex technical decisions.
• Ensure Covera's platforms and systems can scale reliably and securely as our products, customers, data sources, and partnerships grow.
• Set and maintain a high engineering bar, actively reviewing architecture and technical approaches to ensure solutions balance performance, scalability, reliability, security, cost, and speed.
• Recruit, develop, and retain exceptional technology talent while building a technically strong team that values ownership, collaboration, and engineering excellence.
• Build a culture where engineers take ownership, make sound technical decisions, and remain focused on delivering meaningful product and business outcomes.
• Ensure Covera's technology organization can support increasingly complex data and AI-driven products while meeting the privacy, security, reliability, and quality requirements of healthcare.
• Communicate technical decisions, priorities, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to both engineering teams and executive stakeholders.
• Remain actively involved in diagnosing and resolving complex technical challenges, including data pipeline issues, architectural decisions, system performance, and critical production incidents.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive software engineering and technology experience, including deep technical experience building and operating complex software systems and leading engineering teams.
• Experience leading engineering teams and engineering managers while remaining actively involved in technical architecture, design, and execution.
• Demonstrated success building technically strong, high-performing engineering teams with a culture of ownership, accountability, and high engineering standards.
• Strong product instincts and demonstrated ability to connect technology strategy and execution to product, customer, and business needs.
• Demonstrated ability to partner closely with Product leadership and operate effectively at the intersection of product and engineering.
• Deep technical expertise and strong architectural judgment, with the ability and desire to remain actively involved in design reviews, technical problem-solving, and critical engineering decisions.
• Experience building, scaling, and operating large-scale, data-intensive production systems and platforms.
• Deep technical knowledge of modern software engineering, cloud infrastructure, data platforms and pipelines, integrations, security, reliability, and data architecture.
• Experience improving engineering quality, reliability, and delivery through strong technical practices, effective tooling, and practical team leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to make complex cross-functional decisions, resolve competing priorities, and create alignment across multiple teams and functions.
• Experience working with ML/AI engineering teams or overseeing products and platforms incorporating AI/ML capabilities.
• Strong track record of recruiting, developing, and retaining exceptional engineering leaders and talent.
• Experience operating in fast-paced startup or growth-stage environments.
• Excellent executive communication and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Experience building or leading modern, data-intensive technology platforms, with a strong understanding of complex data pipelines, distributed systems, and production reliability.
• Demonstrated ability to balance technical depth with leadership responsibilities, remaining close to engineering work while guiding teams and making broader technology decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at a healthcare technology or data company building modern software platforms or technically complex products using clinical, imaging, or claims data.
• Experience with healthcare or clinical data environments, including familiarity with HL7 and/or DICOM.
• Experience with modern data and analytics platforms such as Databricks, Spark, or similar technologies.
• Experience with AWS or equivalent cloud infrastructure.
• Experience transitioning from a highly technical engineering environment into a leadership role at a startup or growth-stage company.
• Experience developing engineering depth and technical leadership at a large-scale technology company, followed by engineering leadership experience in a smaller, product-focused organization.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical plans - choose from three plans, including one with 100% of premiums covered for you and your dependents.
• Vision & Dental.
• Flexible Time Off - take the time you need, when you need it.
• Generous company wide holidays - 16 in total.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan.
• Annual Professional Development Stipend to invest in courses, books, or any other professional development related activity.
• Annual Wellness stipend for fitness, mental health or other wellness expenses.