SVP – Engineering

About Wellth

Wellth is a fast-growing, growth-stage digital health company headquartered in Los Angeles. Our mission is to motivate people living with chronic conditions to make healthier choices, every single day.

We use behavioral economics, habit science and technology to motivate lasting behavior change in some of the highest need and most underserved populations in the US (Medicare and Medicaid), drastically changing their quality of life and health outcomes. We have demonstrated results with several large insurers and health systems (e.g. reducing hospitalizations by over 40%), and are now rapidly scaling. Our goal is to be the category leader in improving health outcomes for hard-to-engage populations. A key difference at Wellth compared to other digital health companies is that our users (Members) actually use Wellth every single day - think TikTok tier daily engagement (and data generation!).

But most importantly, our work quite literally saves lives by stabilizing chronic disease patients and preventing disease progression, hospitalization, and other bad outcomes. We are a mission-driven company where you work with incredible talent and see tangible differences directly from your impact.

About the Role:

Having recently raised our oversubscribed Series C, Wellth is seeking an experienced Senior Vice President, Engineering to lead our engineering organization through our next stage of growth. As a core member of the executive team, you will be responsible for setting the strategy and direction for our engineering team. You will ensure we deliver reliable, secure, and high-impact products for our clients and members. You will be responsible for also scaling up a world-class team.

The SVP, Engineering will partner closely with Product and Operations leadership, serving as the voice of engineering on the executive team, and be accountable for ensuring we have strong technical foundations and the right talent in place to become the category leading company in healthcare.

Responsibilities & Duties

Strategic Leadership

• Define and own the long-term technology strategy aligned with company objectives.
• Serve as a thought partner to the COO, Product, and Data leaders on how engineering drives competitive advantage.
• Represent engineering priorities at the executive team and board level.

Team Building & Management

• Scale and mentor a high-performing engineering organization across backend, frontend, mobile, data, and infrastructure.
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, and speed.
• Develop future leaders within the team, building succession and depth in technical leadership.

Execution & Delivery

• Ensure timely, high-quality delivery of features, infrastructure, and platform initiatives.
• Establish strong engineering processes and operational rigor (roadmapping, OKRs, velocity tracking, QA).
• Balance short-term delivery with long-term architectural investments.

Technology & Architecture

• Oversee technical architecture and system design decisions to ensure scalability, reliability, security, and compliance (HIPAA, HITRUST).
• Partner with Product and Data to build platform capabilities that unlock analytics, AI/ML, and workflow automation in healthcare settings.
• Drive best practices for cloud infrastructure, APIs, integrations, and data pipelines across the ecosystem.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Product to translate vision into executable engineering plans.
• Work with Customer Success and Operations to ensure our technology meets real-world needs of health plans, providers, and members.
• Act as a bridge between engineering and go-to-market functions, making technical tradeoffs clear to business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience, with 7+ years at the VP/SVP or equivalent level, ideally in healthcare technology, SaaS, or data-driven platforms.
• Proven success scaling engineering organizations while maintaining speed and quality.
• Deep technical expertise across modern cloud architectures, distributed systems, data platforms (healthcare data experience is a plus), mobile app development (iOS and Android) and security.
• Demonstrated track record of building enterprise-grade products that meet rigorous compliance and regulatory standards (e.g., HIPAA, HITRUST).
• Experience working with data science, AI/ML, and analytics teams to bring data-driven solutions to market.
• Strong people leadership skills—able to attract, develop, and retain top engineering talent.
• Excellent communicator who can translate technical complexity into business clarity for executive and customer stakeholders.
• Mission-driven orientation: passion for healthcare innovation and improving patient outcomes

Values & Mindset:

• A Genuine Passion for Healthcare: You believe that healthcare can be changed for the better, that people need and deserve help in improving their health and have a desire to work for an organization dedicated to doing both.
• Proactive Communications (Internally & Externally): You are diligent about keeping everyone on the team informed. If unclear, you ask questions of key stakeholders and are proactive in communications.
• A Collaborative Attitude: You genuinely care about the people you work with and their well-being. At Wellth, we believe we win as a team, and win together by supporting one another. In your role, you will be closely working with employees across all departments.
• An Entrepreneurial Mindset: You are scrappy and take a small business owner mentality to your department, vendors and internal teammates. You are willing to think outside of the box and roll up your sleeves to get the job done.

You will enjoy working with us at Wellth.

The benefits of working with us include:

• Flexible working arrangements, supporting strong remote-first practices and tools with the option to work in our excellent gathering space in Marina Del Rey.
• Robust paid time off and generous parental leave program.
• Competitive salary & commission structure.
• Health, dental, vision insurance, and FSA/HSA plans.
• Ability to have a positive impact on people who need it most.
• Support of a highly dedicated team focused on building the future of healthcare.

Base Compensation: $240,000-$290,000

Wellth is an equal-opportunity employer. We value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.