Team8 Health stealth startup-VP Engineering

About The Position

A Team8 Digital Health portfolio company is hiring a VP of Engineering.  

 As the company’s first VP of Engineering you will be making and taking part in some of the most significant decisions in the company, and have a unique opportunity to shape the Engineering, product, culture, and general trajectory of the company.

 About Team8 

Team8 is a company-building venture group that builds and invests in companies specializing in Digital Health, Enterprise technologies,Fintech, Data, AI, and Cybersecurity. The Team8 model supports entrepreneurs with an in-house team of researchers, growth experts, and talent acquisition specialists, and a “village” community of enterprise c-level executives and thought leaders. Whether building a new company from scratch or investing in companies already on their journey, Team8 brings a rich ecosystem to work hand in hand with entrepreneurs in accelerating their path to success.

 What you’ll do

• Own the engineering function of the company.
• Recruit and build engineering organization. 
• Help build, deliver against, and design the company’s product roadmap.
• Work closely with design partners and prospective customers to best ensure the success of active. engagements, and synthesize feedback to make needed changes and improvements to the product.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in getting things done in a distributed, large-scale, and fast-growing environment.
• 6+ years of proven hands-on production-grade development experience.
• 5+ years of experience in managing high-performing engineering teams and delivering in Agile and Scrum methodologies. 
• Experience with scalable infrastructure (Kubernetes, Serverless, Lambda) and public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Strong understanding of data-ops and ML/AI technologies.
• Experience with large-scale SaaS production services, databases, and Big Data.
• Experience implementing and managing DevOps practices and CI/CD architecture.
• Experience building companies that revolve around data ingest and analytics.
• Strong technical craft mastery and engineering discipline.
• Deep organization capabilities, especially in regard to influence, collaboration, and communication
• Experience effectively balancing toil/technical debt with new customers.

Nice to have:

• FinTech/Healthcare/digital-health experience.
• Early-stage experience.