Head of Engineering
Evvy
Head of Engineering
Evvy
At-home metagenomic vaginal microbiome sequencing
At Evvy, we believe the female body shouldn’t be a medical mystery.
We are a precision women’s health company leveraging the vaginal microbiome to improve outcomes across a woman's lifespan. Backed by $60M+ from leading investors, we serve over 100,000 patients and 3,000 providers nationwide with our validated Vaginal Microbiome Test and AI-powered personalized care platform.
Through this work, we have built the world’s largest dataset on the vaginal microbiome — a proprietary foundation that will drive breakthroughs in infertility, preterm birth, gynecological cancers, and beyond.
Why join now?
Evvy is a generational opportunity in women's health — and we're at the inflection point.
We’ve built a dataset no one has. Evvy has generated the world’s largest vaginal microbiome dataset from 100,000+ patients, uncovering novel biological markers underlying women’s health conditions that collectively cost the healthcare system $180B+ annually.
Validated, AI-first platform. We’ve built a comprehensive testing and care platform that unlocks personalized treatment pathways for each patient. Our work is supported by research published in major peer-reviewed journals and presented at major clinical conferences (including ACOG, ASRM, IDSOG, and more).
Proven traction, massive opportunity. We serve 100,000+ patients and 2,000 providers nationwide, with rapidly growing revenue and an expanding suite of diagnostics and treatments to improve outcomes across condition areas. We've only scratched the surface.
Top tier team, investors, and partners. Our world-class team is backed by industry leading investors, including General Catalyst, Left Lane Capital, US Fertility, and Labcorp.
We're looking for high-horsepower, mission-driven people who find it unacceptable that the female body is still a medical mystery — and want to help change that.
We’re looking for a Head of Engineering to help build the technical foundation for the future of women’s healthcare.
At Evvy, engineering sits at the center of everything we do — from diagnostics and patient experiences to AI-powered personalization, clinical operations, and data infrastructure. This role is about using modern engineering and AI-native development to dramatically increase the speed, leverage, and ambition of what a small team can accomplish.
As Head of Engineering, you’ll report directly to the CEO and lead Evvy’s technical vision, architecture, and execution as we scale. You’ll oversee the evolution of our platform across patient experiences, internal tooling, AI-powered workflows, clinical infrastructure, and data systems — helping ensure we move quickly without compromising quality, reliability, or trust.
We’re looking for someone deeply hands-on and intensely product-minded. You should be excited about working directly in the weeds with the team: reviewing architecture decisions, unblocking engineers, experimenting with new tooling, prototyping systems, and helping the organization adopt the newest AI-enabled development workflows. You should have strong instincts for how modern engineering organizations operate in an AI-native world — where lean, highly-leveraged teams can execute roadmaps that previously required significantly larger organizations.
Evvy is a primarily in-person team based in NYC. Given the cross-functional nature of this role, our ideal candidate is located in NYC.
Technical Vision & AI-Native Execution
Translate Evvy’s company and product vision into a scalable technical roadmap across engineering, AI, and data infrastructure
Define architecture and technical strategy that enables a lean team to move exceptionally quickly without sacrificing reliability or scalability
Identify and deploy modern AI-enabled engineering workflows, tooling, and infrastructure that increase developer leverage and execution speed
Stay deeply hands-on with architecture, implementation details, debugging, and technical problem-solving
Establish best practices around architecture, code quality, security, scalability, and AI-assisted development workflows
Partner closely with ML and research teams to bring AI-powered systems and algorithms into production
Engineering Leadership & Culture
Lead, mentor, and grow Evvy’s engineering organization
Build a culture of ownership, urgency, product thinking, and technical excellence
Create an engineering organization that embraces modern tooling, rapid iteration, and continuous learning
Balance short-term product velocity with thoughtful infrastructure investments and long-term maintainability
Partner closely with the CEO on hiring, org design, and long-term technical strategy
Product & Cross-Functional Collaboration
Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Clinical, Operations, CX, Marketing, and Growth teams to build systems that solve real user problems
Ensure engineering decisions are grounded in user value, business impact, and operational scalability
Help shape roadmap prioritization, technical tradeoffs, and execution planning across the company
Serve as the voice of engineering across all levels of the organization
Security, Privacy & Infrastructure
Own Evvy’s vision for platform security, privacy, and technical trust
Manage internal systems access and compliance processes related to sensitive healthcare and patient data
Evaluate new vendors, tools, and infrastructure through both technical and compliance lenses
Help ensure Evvy remains best-in-class in data privacy and responsible healthcare infrastructure
You are:
Deeply product-minded and obsessed with building systems that create real user value
Intensely hands-on and excited to work directly alongside engineers in the weeds
AI-native by default — constantly exploring how new technologies can accelerate development and increase leverage
Energized by building lean, high-output engineering teams that can execute ambitious roadmaps quickly
Comfortable operating in ambiguity and making thoughtful decisions with imperfect information
A strong technical leader who can balance speed, quality, scalability, and pragmatism
Passionate about building strong engineering cultures and mentoring high-performing teams
An exceptional communicator across technical and non-technical stakeholders
You have:
10+ years of engineering experience, including 4+ years in engineering leadership roles
Experience leading engineering organizations through high-growth startup stages (Series B and beyond)
Experience building and scaling consumer-facing platforms, internal systems, or data-intensive products
Strong architectural instincts across modern web infrastructure and AI-enabled systems
Experience deploying modern AI tooling and workflows across software development processes
Experience hiring, mentoring, and managing engineers while remaining highly technical yourself
Familiarity with modern engineering stacks similar to Evvy’s (Python/Django, React, PostgreSQL, AWS, Snowflake, etc.)
Helpful but not required:
Experience in healthtech or other regulated industries
Experience productionizing ML/AI systems
Experience with HIPAA, security certifications, or privacy-sensitive infrastructure
Experience supporting diagnostics, ecommerce, or patient-facing healthcare platforms
Evvy is a primarily in-person team based in New York, NY with a strong culture of collaboration and connection. We work from the office 4 days a week (Wednesdays remote), and we genuinely enjoy spending time together: team dinners, happy hours, and shared wins are part of the rhythm here.
Start with the why. We tie everything back to a user need or company goal.
Figure it out. We take initiative, embrace ambiguity, and build from first principles.
Create win-wins. We solve problems with patients, partners, and the business in mind.
Own it to the end. We close every loop and take pride in the details.
Stay eleven steps ahead. We anticipate, plan, and act with foresight and speed.
Competitive salary and equity package
Flexible PTO
$1K learning and development budget
Health, dental, and vision insurance, plus HSA plans
401(k) plan (Roth and traditional)
Monthly team events
Free Evvy membership
Paid parental leave
Evvy is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and do not discriminate based on race, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or other protected characteristics.
All communications will come from an @evvy.com email address.
Evvy offers an at-home, CLIA- and CLEP-certified metagenomic sequencing test of the vaginal microbiome, with clinician review and personalized care pathways guided by EvvyAI. Tests are collected at home and sent to a lab, where results are interpreted by clinicians and translated into actionable guidance for patients through tailored care plans. The company differentiates itself by combining clinician-reviewed at-home testing, an AI advisor, and a growing body of peer-reviewed microbiome research and real-world data, including collaborations on fertility and IVF studies. Its goal is to close the gender health data gap by linking microbiome biology with symptoms, treatments, and outcomes to enable precision medicine in women's health.
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