Job Title: Vice President of Engineering

Blooming Health is on a mission to transform social care for older adults and underserved populations. We partner with community organizations, government agencies, and healthcare stakeholders to build a digital tissue in the community for automating access to social care and advancing health equity. As we scale, we’re looking for an ambitious and resourceful VP of Engineering to lead our technology efforts.

This is a hybrid role, with strong preference for NY based candidates.

About the Role:

Lead Blooming Health's engineering organization through its next phase of rapid growth. Build and scale a high-performing, distributed engineering team (US, India, & Other) capable of reliably delivering a complex, compliant, and scalable SaaS platform. Drive technical strategy, operational excellence, and a culture of innovation and execution, ensuring tight alignment with product and business goals to meet ambitious commercial targets. Serve as a key member of the executive leadership team.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Team Building & Scaling: Recruit, onboard, develop, and retain top engineering talent (managers, leads, ICs) across the US and India. Design and evolve the engineering organizational structure (~7+ pods) for scalability and focus.
2. Execution & Delivery: Own the end-to-end engineering execution lifecycle. Implement and refine agile processes (SDLC, CI/CD, QA) to ensure predictable, high-quality, and timely delivery of roadmap commitments across multiple pods.
3. Technical Strategy & Architecture: Partner with the CPO, CEO and existing Director of Engineering/Platform Architect to define and execute the long-term technical vision. Ensure the platform architecture is scalable, reliable, secure, and maintainable. Oversee key technical decisions and manage technical debt.
4. Operational Excellence: Establish Drive improvements in system performance, reliability (SLOs/SLAs), monitoring, incident management, and overall operational maturity. Foster a strong sense of ownership for production health.
5. Leadership & Culture: Manage, mentor, and grow engineering leaders. Foster a positive, collaborative, results-oriented, and mission-driven engineering culture across distributed locations.
6. Cross-Functional Partnership: Serve as the engineering counterpart to Product (Director/CPO), Sales/CS (CCO/CRO), and Operations. Ensure seamless collaboration, alignment on priorities, and effective communication.
7. Budget & Resource Management: Manage the engineering budget, optimize resource allocation across pods/initiatives, and ensure efficient infrastructure spending.
8. Compliance & Security: Champion security best practices and ensure engineering processes support achieving and maintaining required compliance standards (HIPAA, SOC2, HITRUST).

Experience & Qualifications (Must-Haves):

• Proven Scaling Experience: Demonstrated success scaling an engineering organization through a high-growth phase (e.g., from 20-30 to 75-100+ engineers) at a B2B SaaS company, ideally within a startup/growth-stage environment.
• Distributed Team Leadership: Significant experience managing and leading geographically distributed engineering teams, with specific experience managing India-based teams strongly preferred. Understands communication, cultural nuances, and operational cadence for global teams.
• Strong Technical Foundation & Architectural Oversight: While not necessarily coding daily, must possess deep technical credibility, understand modern cloud architectures (GCP/AWS), APIs, microservices, data pipelines, and be capable of guiding strategic technical decisions and partnering effectively with architects.
• AI Product Development: Experience building and scaling AI applications (LLMs, Bots, Predictive models etc..)
• Operational Rigor & Process Improvement: Experience implementing and maturing key engineering processes (Agile/Scrum, CI/CD, incident management, monitoring, QA automation) leading to measurable improvements in predictability, quality, and reliability.
• Excellent People Leadership: Proven ability to hire A+ talent, develop managers/leaders, build high morale, handle performance management, and foster career growth.
• Strong Cross-Functional Collaboration: History of successfully partnering with Product, GTM, and other departments to achieve shared business goals. Excellent communication and influencing skills.

Experience & Qualifications (Nice-to-Haves):

• Healthcare Technology Experience: Direct experience in health tech, particularly with integrations (EHRs like Epic/Cerner, FHIR), HIPAA compliance, and the payer/provider ecosystem. Strongly preferred.
• AI/ML Ops: Familiarity with the lifecycle of AI/ML features, MLOps concepts, and managing teams working on data-intensive applications.
• Compliance Frameworks: Experience working within regulated environments and achieving compliance certifications (NIST, SOC2, HITRUST awareness).
• Experience with Specific Stack Elements: GCP, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Node.js, etc. is beneficial but less critical than leadership and scaling experience.

Leadership & Cultural Attributes:

• Execution-Oriented: Bias for action, focused on delivering results and removing roadblocks.
• Strategic Thinker: Ability to balance short-term execution needs with long-term technical strategy.
• Adaptable & Resilient: Thrives in a fast-paced, evolving environment; navigates ambiguity effectively.
• Collaborative & Empathetic: Builds strong relationships, fosters psychological safety, leads with empathy.
• Mission-Driven: Passionate about Blooming Health's mission to improve social care access and outcomes.
• Transparent Communicator: Communicates clearly, concisely, and proactively across all levels and locations.
• Player/Coach Mentality: Willing to roll up sleeves when needed but primarily focused on enabling and empowering the team.

Why You Should Work With Us

• Competitive compensation
• ‍Health insurance
• Responsible PTO policy
• ‍Access to office space in New York and flexibility to work hybrid
• A fully loaded Mac Air laptop to set you up for success
• Driven, and passionate team with a culture that values transparency, mutual respect, and collaboration
• Work in an entrepreneurial environment with room for growth
• Most importantly, an exciting opportunity for you to join a fast growing company revolutionizing social care for millions, including you and your loved ones.