[Hiring] VP of Engineering @Tiny Health

Role Description

As our first VP of Engineering, you will own engineering at Tiny Health end to end. Our team of roughly a dozen engineers works across two pods and has grown without a dedicated leader, with ownership over technical direction, architecture, hiring, and people management currently fragmented between various people. You will bring all of that under one roof:

• Lead the people, set and ship a clear technical and architecture strategy.
• Stand up the performance and growth systems a maturing engineering org needs.

We are looking for a hands-on leader who is as comfortable in the codebase as in a 1:1, someone who can earn the trust of senior engineers, develop them into the tech leads we do not yet have, and represent engineering at the executive table.

• Deliver highly technical information in lay business terms.
• Communicate risk, reward, and impact effectively to non-technical audiences.

This role reports directly to our co-founder and Chief Growth Officer.

Qualifications

• Have directly managed and led engineers, including running 1:1s, performance, and individual growth.
• Operate as a hands-on builder who still writes and reviews code and works directly in the system, not a pure people-leader.
• Can engage senior engineers on architecture and scaling tradeoffs at their depth and earn their respect.
• Experience serving as the sole voice for engineering among business and product leaders.
• Take a clear, bold position in the best interest of both engineering and the company.
• Command the tradeoffs and move the room through reasoning rather than authority.

Requirements

• Have run an engineering org or team of comparable size (roughly 10 to 12 engineers).
• Have scaled a team from a single- or two-pod structure into a larger org with tech leads and engineering managers.
• A track record of developing engineers and leveling existing talent up into senior or lead roles.
• Have personally sourced, closed, and onboarded engineers who became A-players.
• Experience in a healthcare, HIPAA, or SOC 2 compliant environment.
• Structure messy, ambiguous data into a conclusion you can defend.

Benefits

• Remote-First Company: our working hours follow a 2 hour window from 9 am - 6 pm CST.
• Driven by an ambitious mission: we're reinventing how we should think about wellness from the first 1,000 days to the last.
• Shape what we build, not just how we build it: we prioritize experimentation with taking ownership, and moving fast.
• No hidden agendas: we operate with full transparency.
• High standards, human culture: we hold ourselves to a high bar and do it alongside a team who can laugh at themselves.

Company Description

Tiny Health is advancing lifelong health, from the first 1,000 days to the last, and addressing chronic disease through precision microbiome science. Founded in 2020 and built by microbiome scientists and physicians, our testing platform reveals whether your microbiome is trending toward resilience or imbalances using shotgun metagenomics, proprietary AI, and one of the world's largest longitudinal datasets.

Trusted by families and health practitioners alike, our research-backed gut and vaginal tests are redefining the microbiome as a cornerstone of personalized health through every life stage.