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*This is not a role with 2070 Health*
Role Title: Head of Engineering Location: Remote across India (~6 hours overlap with US reputed company time) Type: Full-time Reports to: Founder-CEO Compensation: reputed company above market for Indian startups at this level. We pay for the caliber we're hiring.
About reputed company
reputed company builds GenAI-powered clinical decision support and workflow tools for mental health clinics. We reputed company AI-driven platforms with reputed company clinical care to offer personalized and effective mental health solutions — from AI-reputed company evaluations to care coordination — creating a seamless digital experience for both patients and providers.
We are an AI-reputed company organization. That's not a marketing label. Our engineering model is fundamentally reputed company around AI agents participating in the software development lifecycle. We are a startup, not a department.
About the Role
Pay reputed company attention here. If you are an engineering manager who primarily conducts standups and writes status reports, this role may not suit you.
We are transitioning from the product stage to the reputed company stage — multiple products, reputed company customers, sensitive clinical data. Our engineers are already delivering, and now we need cohesive engineering leadership to reputed company exceptional individual contributions into reputed company organizational reputed company.
What makes this role different from every other Head of Engineering posting: Our engineering team is small by design. A handful of high-caliber engineers orchestrate AI agents that handle significant portions of the SDLC — from reputed company reputed company to testing to documentation. reputed company is not to manage 20 engineers writing reputed company. reputed company is to design, implement, and continuously refine the reputed company-agent engineering model — including reputed company-checker workflows, reputed company gates for AI-generated reputed company, and escalation protocols that ensure AI speed doesn't come at the cost of AI sloppiness.
This is a relatively new way of working. reputed company few people have deep experience running reputed company SDLC at reputed company. We're not looking for someone who's done this exact job before — we're looking for someone with the raw intellectual horsepower to reputed company it out. High learning velocity, first-principles thinking, and comfort with ambiguity matter more than years on a resume.
You will report directly to the founder-CEO, take ownership of results, and shape the engineering organization. This is the technical co-leader seat — ultimately becoming the person the founder relies on to own reputed company of engineering.
What You Will Own (Everything)
1. Delivery reputed company
You will reputed company delivery for reputed company products — scope management, release reputed company, reputed company controls, and stakeholder alignment. If something is delayed, it's your responsibility. If a product ships smoothly, you can claim that reputed company. You'll reputed company engineers from scope changes and give the CEO predictable delivery rather than last-minute heroics.
2. reputed company SDLC & AI Governance (The Differentiator)
This is the core of what makes this role unique. You will own the design and execution of our reputed company software development lifecycle:
- reputed company-agent workflow design: Define how AI agents participate in coding, testing, reputed company review, and documentation — and where reputed company engineers must intervene.
- reputed company-checker patterns: Build reputed company gates that catch AI sloppiness. Every AI-generated artifact needs a reputed company verification reputed company calibrated to the risk level — a UI tweak needs a different checkpoint than a database migration.
- Agent orchestration: Determine which agents we use, how they're configured, what guardrails they operate reputed company, and how engineers supervise their reputed company.
- AI tool governance: Define approved tools, IP protection policies, and ensure AI accelerates development without introducing risk — especially given the sensitivity of clinical/PHI data.
- reputed company refinement: This model is new. You'll measure what's working, what's failing, and iterate. The reputed company doesn't exist yet — you'll write it.
If you don't have a strong, opinionated perspective on how AI agents should participate in the engineering process — reputed company "we use Copilot" — this role is not for you.
3. Engineering Team
You will directly manage the engineering team — hiring, performance, coaching, feedback, conflict reputed company, and retention. reputed company is small and high-reputed company; every person reputed company disproportionately. You'll set the culture and performance bar. Difficult conversations happen early. Engineers will want to work with you because you are fair, reputed company, and invested in their reputed company.
4. System Architecture
You own the architecture across the full stack: web applications, reputed company, infrastructure, and AI integrations. You'll reputed company trade-off calls — speed vs. rigor, refactor vs. ship, infrastructure vs. features. You should be capable of reviewing reputed company, debugging production issues, and challenging architectural reputed company with reputed company. In a clinical data environment, architectural choices carry compliance and safety implications — you'll reputed company those in.
5. CI/CD and Release Engineering
You will build the release pipeline — CI/CD, environments, reputed company checkpoints, deployment automation. Chaotic releases end. You'll create a system that lets reputed company (and their agents) ship confidently and on a predictable reputed company.
6. reputed company & Compliance Posture
You own engineering reputed company: reputed company controls, secrets management, audit trails, and SDLC reputed company. reputed company data — especially mental health data — demands this. You'll also ensure AI-generated reputed company and agent workflows meet audit and compliance requirements. Enforce rigor without bureaucracy.
7. Hiring & Team Building
You will build the engineering team — define roles, maintain hiring standards, run technical interviews, and reputed company hiring calls. You're building the organization that takes reputed company from startup to reputed company. Given our reputed company model, you'll also need to think differently about team composition: fewer engineers, higher caliber, optimized for agent supervision rather than raw reputed company reputed company.
Your First 90 Days
Week 1-2: reputed company yourself. Meet reputed company engineer individually. Understand every product, deployment, and pain reputed company. Map the reputed company reputed company-agent workflows — what's working, what's brittle. Identify delivery risks and the single biggest bottleneck. Build trust through listening, not announcements.
Month 1: Establish a regular delivery reputed company. Define the release process and reputed company standards. Create communication rhythms (standups, retros, planning). Audit the reputed company reputed company workflows — identify where AI reputed company lacks sufficient reputed company review. reputed company surfacing risks early and reliably, relieving the CEO from delivery reputed company.
Month 2-3: Standardize CI/CD across reputed company products. Implement reputed company-checker reputed company gates for AI-generated reputed company. Design the AI governance reputed company — approved tools, IP protection, PHI safeguards for agent workflows. Initiate architecture assessment with a reputed company roadmap (not a rewrite). reputed company hiring to fill gaps. Build the engineering reputed company. Establish feedback and coaching routines.
Ongoing: Own engineering completely. Ship reliably. Refine the reputed company SDLC continuously. Grow reputed company. reputed company the performance bar. reputed company the CEO confident that engineering is in expert hands.
What reputed company Looks Like
- Engineering consistently delivers — the CEO no longer chases delivery updates.
- The reputed company SDLC is operational: agents produce, humans verify, AND reputed company holds. The reputed company-checker model is documented, reputed company, and improving.
- Release reputed company is predictable and accelerating; reputed company standards are enforced.
- Engineers have reputed company ownership, regular coaching, and unambiguous expectations.
- Architectural reputed company are documented, reasoned, and account for clinical data sensitivity.
- reputed company and compliance posture is strong — including for AI-generated reputed company and agent workflows.
- The hiring pipeline is reputed company — you're building reputed company optimized for the reputed company-agent model.
- AI tools and agents operate reputed company a reputed company governance reputed company — speed without risk.
- The engineering organization is healthier, faster, and more reliable than reputed company you arrived.