VP of Engineering

Full Time

Job Details

Position Title

VP of Engineering

Job Type

Full-Time

Location

Hybrid/NYC

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

Sevaro is a physician-founded and physician-led tele-neurology company on a mission to transform neurological care delivery through innovative technology, actionable data, and compassionate service. Our teams partner with hospitals and health systems across the country to deliver timely, high-quality stroke and neurology care.

As we scale, maintaining security, compliance, and trust is critical. We are seeking an experienced Security Analyst to help strengthen Sevaro’s information security program and protect our growing clinical, operational, and data platforms.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

We are seeking an experienced Vice President of Engineering to lead our product engineering organization and deliver best-in-class digital experiences for hospital users, physicians, and clinical ops teams. This role will oversee engineering teams building and scaling solutions such as hospital-facing apps, mobile apps, physician care coordination tools, and clinical ops systems.

The VP of Engineering will define the technical vision, organizational strategy, and culture for a growing engineering team. This leader must balance speed and innovation with security, scalability, and reliability, while championing modern engineering practices and leveraging AI-driven development to improve productivity and quality.

This role is both strategic and hands-on, guiding architecture and technical direction, scaling distributed teams, and fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and excellence.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Engineering Leadership & Strategy

  • Define and drive the engineering vision, strategy, and roadmap in alignment with product and organizational goals.
  • Oversee engineering across provider experience, hospital systems, clinical quality, scheduling, licensing & credentialing, and internal operations.
  • Lead adoption of DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code practices for rapid and reliable releases.
  • Establish engineering standards, best practices, and architecture principles to ensure scalability, security, and maintainability.
  • Champion the use of AI-driven development tools (e.g., code assistants, automated QA, intelligent CI/CD) to accelerate delivery and improve quality.

Product Delivery & Ownership

  • Ensure end-to-end ownership and delivery of high-quality software across web, mobile, and internal tools.
  • Drive close collaboration with Product, Data & AI, and Clinical teams to define requirements and ship impactful solutions.
  • Oversee the full product lifecycle: prototyping, development, testing, release, and ongoing maintenance.
  • Lead the development of video communication solutions (e.g., video carts for patient consultation, mobile apps with real-time calling and chat functionality).
  • Ensure implementation of federated single sign-on (SSO) applications to enable secure and seamless access across platforms.
  • Leverage AI-powered tools to accelerate prototyping, debugging, testing, and deployment.

Team Building & Management

  • Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing, distributed engineering organization (U.S.- based and offshore).
  • Define career development paths and foster a culture of ownership, excellence, and accountability.
  • Partner with HR and recruiting to attract top engineering talent aligned with the company’s mission.
  • Provide coaching and mentorship to engineering leaders and tech leads.

Hands-On Contribution

  • Stay engaged with code, architecture reviews, and key technical tradeoffs.
  • Encourage experimentation with emerging tools, frameworks, and AI-powered engineering workflows.
  • Drive adoption of strong practices in testing, observability, security, and performance optimization.
  • Ensure best-in-class developer productivity through modern workflows, automation, and infrastructure.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Representation

  • Represent engineering at the executive leadership level, aligning priorities across functions.
  • Partner with Product and Data & AI leadership to align strategy, foundations, and innovation.
  • Clearly communicate engineering priorities, challenges, and successes to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Serve as a visible technical leader in the healthcare innovation space.

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

Experience & Expertise

  • 10+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years in senior leadership (VP or Director level).
  • Proven success in leading teams to deliver scalable SaaS applications (web and mobile).
  • Must have hands-on experience building video communication platforms (video carts, mobile calling, chat functionality).
  • Must have expertise in implementing federated single sign-on (SSO) applications in enterprise healthcare environments.
  • Deep technical expertise across modern web/mobile frameworks, backend systems, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Strong background in DevOps, CI/CD, and AWS cloud.
  • Demonstrated experience with AI/ML engineering tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor) integrated into workflows.
  • Experience in healthcare technology is required.
  • Track record of managing and scaling distributed engineering teams (local + offshore).

Leadership & Collaboration

  • Strategic thinker who balances long-term platform goals with near-term delivery needs.
  • Strong communication skills and executive presence, able to represent engineering across the company and externally.
  • Proven ability to align cross-functional stakeholders around engineering priorities.
  • Passion for mentoring and developing engineering leaders and teams.
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