Head of Engineering

Healthcare is in crisis and the people behind the results deserve better. With data exploding across wearables, lab tests, and patient–doctor interactions, we’re entering an era where data is abundant.

Junction is building the infrastructure layer for diagnostic healthcare, making patient data accessible, actionable, and automated across labs and devices. Our mission is simple but ambitious: use health data to unlock unprecedented insight into human health and disease.

If you're passionate about how technology can supercharge healthcare, you’ll fit right in.

Backed by Creandum, Point Nine, 20VC, YC, and leading angels, we’re working to solve one of the biggest challenges of our time: making healthcare personalized, proactive, and affordable. We’re already connecting millions and scaling fast.

• You: A mission-driven, technical Head of Engineering

• Ownership: Build, grow and lead a high-performing engineering team so that they can execute the most technical challenges in healthcare today

• Us: Team Junction is now 32, with an engineering team of 7. Revenue has x6’d in the last year

• Time zones: Fully remote (either in GMT or EST timezones)

Our engineering team of 7 has been built by our Founder, Maitham (ML Engineer from Babylon Health) who cares deeply about building a world class engineering culture (read more here). We’re now in scaling mode, revenue has x6’d in the last year and we’re connecting millions of patients via our platform so it’s a perfect time for a Head of Engineering.

• Leading and growing the team: Hiring exceptional engineers, setting them up for success and supporting them to do their best work so that the product roadmap is delivered in the most impactful way possible for our customers

• Help the team to deliver product: Working with Boris and the engineering team to make sure product progress is on track and challenges are discussed early to protect engineering time

• Remaining technical: Given our size, you’ll be partnering with technical leads and engineers on granular technical decisions, reviewing PR’s and RFCs, unblocking issues and being involved in solving some of the hardest problems in healthcare

• Strengthen our engineering culture: Work with our engineers to champion strong engineering practices; encourage knowledge sharing; develop communication guidelines and encourage ownership and autonomous working

• Motivations: You are completely passionate about fixing healthcare. Experience working in the healthcare, especially in the US is a nice to have.

• Technical skills: 5+ years engineering experience. This is a highly technical engineering leadership role, getting into the weeds with engineers. You’ve built products for millions before at a startup to scale up with a strong engineering culture. Python & Go are our main languages, but it’s not required to be fluent in it

• People-first management: a few years in a engineering management role during fast headcount growth, with a remote-first team. You have managed over 6+ engineers. You’re a coach, you have high trust in your team and know how to grow and hire engineers

• Team leadership: you have experience leading an engineering team. You know what it takes to deliver a product roadmap in the most efficient, impactful way and putting into process to strengthen strong engineering practices

• 1 - Initial Call: 30 mins our search firm

• 2 - Behavioural interview: 60 mins with Maitham and Boris

• 3a - Pair programming: 80 mins (+ 15 minutes get to know)

• 3b - System Design: 60 mins (+ 15 minutes get to know)

  • In person time to understand the business more with Maitham and Boris

• 4 - Working sessions: with Maitham & Boris

• We will benchmark your salary based on your location and experience.

• Your salary is dependant on your location and experience level, generated by our salary calculator. Read more in our handbook here.

• Generous early stage options (extended exercise post 2 years employment) - you will receive 3 offers based on how much equity you'd like

• Regular in person offsites, last were in Morocco and Tenerife

• Bi-weekly team happy hours & events remotely

• Monthly learning budget of $300 for personal development/productivity

• Flexible, remote-first working - including $1K for home office equipment

• 25 days off a year + national holidays

• Healthcare cover depending on location

Oh and before we forget:

• Backend Stack: Python (FastAPI), Go, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud BigTable, etc), Temporal Cloud

• Frontend Stack: TypeScript, Next.js

• API docs are here: docs.tryvital.io

• Company handbook is here with engineering values + principles

Important details before applying:

• We only hire folks physically based in EST timezones for the majority of US based roles - more information here.

• We do not sponsor visas right now given our stage